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It’s almost a blur now… Around the first week of March, Natalie and I were out for my Birthday brunch. Come to think of it, I think it was my last lunch date with a girlfriend! Now an official part of the Art of Marina Family, first some history on Natalie and I: We are both female entrepreneurs in the city, doing our thing; both part of the Toronto Business Babes, which is where we met and just clicked. She is the founder of Toronto’s luxury Vent Blow Dry Bar – an amazing place for the best blowouts, updos and makeup applications. The place...

THE BIG APPLE OF MY LIFE… I’m in New York City this week, and it couldn’t be more perfect timing. I’m here for COTERIE, one of the fashion world’s premier trade shows for women’s fashion and accessories. This month also marks the twenty-year anniversary of my first foray to the Big Apple—for fashion—and the one-year anniversary of Art of Marina Inc. I’m nowhere close to where I want to be yet…  but I do appreciate these moments of serendipity that make the journey feel a little less scary, and little more according to a universal master plan… FLASHBACK: SEPTEMBER 1999...