Awards & Accolades: 

-   Independent Handbag Designers Awards 
2008 Finalist "Best Green Handbag" for "SUMMERTIME"        
(Below: With "Summertime" & holding "Night time", at the awards 6/17/08) 
(handbagdesigners101.com/awards/finalists_2008) (Also from 6/18/08  CBS NEWS AM Show)

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Phoenix Magazine  did it again! We're in the November 2009 Issue: 
"130 of the Valley's Best Local Shops"! 


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-  Cooper Hewitt National Design Museum
2008 Nominee for People's Choice Design Award (Top 10%)
(peoplesdesignaward.cooperhewitt.org/2008/browse/all/18)
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-  Featured Designer Spring '09  handbagdesigner101.com

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-  Phoenix Magazine, March '09, "The Cool Issue"
"33 of the Hippest People, Places & Things in the Valley"
(I'm Number 7 of the 33!  That always WAS my lucky number....hmm.)

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- Phoenix Art Museum's Arizona Costume Institute

Speaker May 13, 2009: "From the Crossroads of Art, Style & Green"
arizonacostumeinstitute.com/ACI/2nd%20Wednesday.html
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RED CARPET CREDENTIALS!
-  Los Angeles Celebrity Stylist Niki Shadrow is a fan!
 -  Alyssa Julya Smith, Actress, with "I'm Leaving You for Gold" & "Morning Serengeti Mist" 
-    Brittany Flickinger MTV Reality show winner with "All Puffed Up" & "Cougar!"
-  Natalie Coughlin, Olympic Gold Medal Swimmer & Dancing with the Stars 2009, with "Cougar"

Also a fave of Christine Matsunaga of Tristan Styling
& her client, "Heroes" actress Brea Grant!  (See tristanstyling.com/blog)
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Also seen in and/or on:

The CBS Morning Show,  AZ KTVK Ch. 3 &  FOX TV Ch. 10,  the Arizona Republic, 

the East Valley Tribune,  Phoenix Business Journal, Chosen magazine, 

Frontdoors, So Scottsdale magazine, Arizona Woman, AZ Home & Design, 

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-  ChicEntrepreneur.com "Put YOUR Business in High Heels!" 
"Chic of the Week"  Oct. 27, 2008

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A mannequin named "Purse-illa" (... I crack myself up...)  was in the
October 2009   "Mannequin is Our Muse" show at Scottsdale Fashion Square this fall. 

She wore a collection of my bags including: My Own Little World, First Hop, BIG Time, Cowgirl Glam, My Universe, Try to Bear Up (not visible), and Just Keep Your Face Out of the Water! 

These days, Purse-illa holds court at Rima Fine Art, 7130 E. Main in Scottsdale.