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By donna on February 18, 2010
Wow, I’m blown away!
I’m a “Cover Girl” today!
Check out this inspiring article below from this week’s VC Reporter…
Commerce, Compassion and Community
by Claudia Pardo McFayden
The sweet scent of African freesia wafting through the store and onto the street entices visitors into the carefully decorated eclectic space that is Betty Belts. Cradled in a corner just off [...]
Posted in Environmental, Meaningful career, Products, conscious consumerism, fashion, ocean, philantrophy, photography, small business, surfing, transparency and ethics, women, women's surfing | Tagged Bali, balinese artisan, Balinese culture, betty b designs, Betty Belts, David Pu'u, Hailey Partridge, inspirational jewelry, inspiring small business, Jeanette Ortiz, love what you do, love your work, Mary Osborne, Meaningful career, motivational small business reading, ocean inspired, Sierra Partridge, small biz success, sustainability movement, ventura creative, ventura find, win-win, women's surfing |
By donna on December 31, 2009
The beautiful Balinese people who I have been working with for six years now on the production of Betty Belts and Betty B. can teach us a lot about generosity, love and appreciation. One thing I have never seen among the Balinese is a sense of entitlement. They practice gratitude every day with their daily [...]
Posted in All, beauty, life, photography | Tagged 2010, appreciation, Bali, Balinese culture, betty b designs, Betty Belts, donna von hoesslin, gratitude, new year, offerings, sense of entitlement, ventura |
By donna on September 19, 2009
Enchantment is the word that flows through my mind throughout this trip. Bali is incredibly enchanting.
Inspiring…
Gorgeous…
The land of the Gods.
We are almost done here. I’ve been working on new designs with my artisan friends and also with each of the young women from Team Betty who joined us for a portion of the trip. Mary [...]
Posted in All, Environmental, Products, beauty, fashion, modeling, ocean, philantrophy, photography, travel, women, women's surfing |
By donna on August 9, 2009
http://adistinctivestyle.com/
This is an awesome online magazine, complete with soundtracks and short videos to go with the stories, a very hip must-read (See Kate Hudson on the cover). It’s the Vanity Fair of the sustainability movement. And even better, there’s an interview with me in it where I got a chance to talk about some [...]
Posted in Environmental, Products, beauty, conscious consumerism, fashion, modeling, photography, women | Tagged Betty Belts, distinctive style, Kate Hudson, sustainability movement, Vanity Fair |
By donna on May 18, 2009
Read Readers of The Betty Blog,
As you may know, I’m a finalist in the Intuit Small Business United Contest.
I submitted my story, it won among over 1900 entries as one of 50 finalists with the help of many of you who read my story and rated it as Inspiring Funny and Useful.
So for the next [...]
Posted in All, humor, life, ocean, photography, small business, surfing, women |
By donna on April 14, 2009
The lovely, always smiling Mary Osborne was the very first athlete I wanted on my surf team when I got started with Betty Belts in 2003.
I asked her “Mary, I’m starting a surf team, will you be on it?”. And luckily she said gladly and we’ve done a lot together since. The man I love [...]
Posted in All, beauty, modeling, photography, pro surfing, surfing, women, women's surfing |
By donna on February 2, 2009
We had the twins down from Santa Cruz for the weekend, Betty Belts Team Riders Sierra and Hailey Partridge, a.k.a. “The Surf Twins”. These girls are among the marvelous female athletes that my company Betty Belts sponsors.
They came to work with David (Pu’u) on a Bikini shoot for Hobie Swimwear. They are also sponsored by [...]
Posted in All, beauty, fashion, modeling, photography, women |
By donna on January 18, 2009
A hand written resume in the form of a photo album came in to the Betty Belts headquarters in Ventura one day a few months back from
13 year old Asia Carpenter, her pretty face on the cover. I’d heard about her from the Partridge twins, who we discovered back in 2005 when they sent in [...]
Posted in All, beauty, modeling, photography, pro surfing, surfing, women, women's surfing |
By donna on January 14, 2009
This is only a few miles from where I collected sea glass the other day but usually surf instead.
Us surfers do live dangerously, don’t we?
Read David’s blog post below to find out why.
Watershed Et Terminus
January 5th, 2009
By David Pu’u
I generally avoid classic landscape work. There is more than enough of it out there. Sometimes it [...]
Posted in All, Environmental, ocean, photography, surfing |
By donna on January 2, 2009
David is on a roll!
Here is yet another blog post from his busy fingertips.
We did this photo shoot he is blogging about far away from our usual place in the ocean. It was off to the Desert with Betty Belts Team Riders Jeanette Ortiz and surfing twins Sierra and Hailey Partridge.
I provided assistance, hair and [...]
Posted in All, fashion, modeling, photography, women |
