As I watched a line of sparkly pink flirt dangerously with the second knuckle of my pointer finger, I asked Esmerelda what made her decide to get into nail art. “Well, I can’t get anyone to let me do their hair anymore so I thought I’d try this. I’m so good at it too!” ...
but whenever we stop into one there’s an indescribable sense of nostalgia and whimsy. It feels like an old-timey gas pump attendant dressed in all white with a newscap is going to pop out from behind the big fiberglass Dinosaur they have on display. While other chains have rebranded...
(cake decorating is to chick flicks what safecracking is to guy movies—a priestly craft) or floral shop; a snowball fight; a cathartic having-it-out-with-mom grievance-shoveling showdown (“it was always about you, it was never about me! ”); a thanksgiving turkey that ends up on ...
Whirlpool founder Lou Upton bought the patent for a hand-washing machine from a failed business venture and in 1911, with his uncle Fred, patented a wringer washer driven by an electric motor. He and his family started the Upton Machine Co. to produce and sell the machines. The company m...