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By donna on September 23, 2011
David had been working on a new edit of his online gallery for the past week and has been meticulously selecting from 400,000 + images of his immense library from recent and older work. These are some of the gems he unearthed, many of which have rarely or never been seen. Bookmark his website: www.DavidPuu.com [...]
Posted in All, beauty, connectedness, life, ocean, photography, surfing |
By donna on September 10, 2011
Wow, it’s not every day the founders of Surfaid International walk into your shop. What an honor it was to meet Dr. Dave and Randall! Surfaid has been one of my favorite orgs to give to over the years for the amazing work they do preventing Malaria and especially after the Tsunami in Indo. David [...]
Posted in All, Meaningful career, connectedness, events, fashion, ocean, philantrophy, photography, surfing | Tagged David Pu'u, Donovan Frankenreiter, Dr. Dave, Havassy Art, Malibu, Robb Havassy, Sample Sale, Stewart+Brown, Stoneworks Gallery, Surfaid International, ventura |
By donna on May 2, 2010
I have a beautiful new collection coming out shortly (check www.BettyBelts.com starting May 10th). I’ve been busy tying up all the loose ends to get it on the site and available to you. Meanwhile, my S.O. David Pu’u, who shot all the designs and the women behind them, Team Betty, wrote a beautiful piece on [...]
Posted in All, Products, beauty, conscious consumerism, fashion, modeling, philantrophy, photography, women's surfing | Tagged betty b designs, Betty Belts, cause designs, cause jewelry, David Pu'u, donna von hoesslin designs, inspirational jewelry, Jeanette Ortiz, Mary Osborne, new designs, Sierra Partridge, ventura, women's surfing |
By donna on April 5, 2010
David Pu’u is, as you probably already know, a very gifted photographer of beautiful things. He and I are both blessed to work with some amazing people, including twins Hailey and Sierra Partridge. Here is his most recent blog about what that means… Model Models by David Pu’u Recently, NYC based production company Silent Crow [...]
Posted in All, Meaningful career, beauty, conscious consumerism, fashion, life, marketing, modeling, ocean, photography, surfing, travel, women, women's surfing | Tagged betty b., Betty Belts, brand identity, brand personality, branding, David Pu'u, Hailey Partridge, hobie, partridge twins, Sierra Partridge, sports modeling, surf photography, surfing twins, team betty, women in surfing |
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Posted in All, humor, life, ocean, photography, small business, surfing, women |
