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  • Recycling + healthcare = hope

    By Daily Grommet, on Mon Feb 8, 2010 11:16am PST


    Containers to clinics.

    Containers to clinics.

    What would you do with a global surplus of shipping containers? If you’re Elizabeth Sheehan, you use a lifetime of international emergency medicine experience and a keen business mind to start Read More »

  • The only jewelry wardrobe you'll ever need!

    By Daily Grommet, on Sun Feb 7, 2010 7:56pm PST

    Who do you want to be today? All business? Colorful? Industrial chic?

    Lisa Monahan, Switch Gear

    Lisa Monahan, Switch Gear

    You can change your style with the switch of a hoop with these clever jewelry kits from designer and metalsmith Lisa Monahan. Each Switch Gear kit comes with two core pieces. In the earring kit, there are two pairs of sterling silver lever-back earrings (one is brightly polished, one is oxidized). In the Tween kit, the core pieces are a single pair of lever-back earrings and one ball chain necklace.

    Switch Gear's interchangeable earring kit

    Switch Gear's interchangeable earring kit

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  • Fabulous fake - the coffee cup that goes anywhere

    By Daily Grommet, on Thu Feb 4, 2010 5:02pm PST


    Celeb watchers know that a paper coffee cup is second only to a Birkin bag as the ultimate accessory for the chic and famous on the go. Lately everyone who’s anyone—from Hollywood hotties to powerful politicos—has been snapped by the paparazzi with a java in hand (well, except for that Suri Cruise, who still totes her bottle). Read More »

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