| After two and one half years I am sad to leave and excited for my new opportunity. Starting at Club Monaco and also having opportunities at Ralph Lauren, offered me many exciting experiences. Creating new website content, managing new organizational features, and building new marketing approaches is just a short list of activities, more info on my LinkedIn.
Thank you Club Monaco Crew, #halfHarts, and Chaney-Doodle.
There’s a certain quiet choreography to a good store display—the way it asks you to slow down without ever saying so. In this corner, denim folds into softer knits, blues leaning into gray, as if the whole scene is trying to be useful rather than loud.
Two mannequins stand guard in the back, dressed in the kind of layers you reach for when the day can’t decide what season it is. A shirt-jacket, a dark crewneck, easy pants. Nothing pleading for attention, everything hinting at a life outside the fitting room.
On the table, the details do the talking: neatly stacked jeans, low sneakers ready for miles, small accessories arranged like the calm aftermath of someone getting ready with time to spare. Even the glass cases feel like a pause—space for the everyday objects that become oddly personal once you wear them long enough.
That’s what I keep thinking about with “That Club Life.” Not velvet ropes or bright lights, but the quieter membership: the club of people who like their clothes to hold up, to fit into real routines, to look better the more they’re lived in.
Maybe that’s the point. Among the polished shelves and careful lighting, you can still sense the ordinary world pressing in—cold air outside, errands waiting, a familiar walk home. And somehow, that makes the whole scene feel more human.
There’s a particular calm that settles in when you give yourself permission to pause.
Club Coffee Break wasn’t loud or rushed. It was the soft scrape of a chair, the steady cool of a marble tabletop, and the warm, textured weight of brick walls holding the room in place. A simple moment: sleeves rolled down, hands around a clear cup, ice shifting quietly as the straw leans off-center—like the day tilting into something gentler.
I like spaces like this because they feel lived alongside you. Not staged, not sterile. Just steady. The kind of corner where you can watch your thoughts move without needing to chase them. You sit for a minute and notice the small mechanics of being human: the way you grip the cup when you’re thinking, the way light lands on a patterned shirt, the way a break can feel like a reset.
Coffee, especially in the middle of an ordinary day, becomes less about caffeine and more about marking time. A small ritual that says: I’m here, and this is enough for now.
If you’ve been moving too fast lately, consider this your reminder to stop somewhere quiet, let the ice melt, and let the world keep spinning without you for a moment.
So Club – So Monaco feels like the kind of phrase you say to yourself when the day is bright but you’re moving through it with a quieter intention. A white ruffle-hem blouse, dark flared jeans, a structured tote swinging low at your side—simple pieces, but arranged like a small declaration.
The street is all cobblestone and practical noise: traffic rolling past, a big truck idling, the city doing what it does without waiting for you. And still, the outfit holds its own. The blouse has that soft architecture that makes movement look deliberate. The dark denim grounds everything, steady and clean, and the bag adds a little weight—like you’re carrying more than just the essentials.
There’s something I love about this kind of look because it lives alongside the day rather than performing for it. It’s polished, but not precious. Comfortable, but not careless. The kind of uniform you could wear from morning errands into an evening plan without changing your mind or your shoes.
If style can be a mood, this is one of those in-between moods: city air, sun on your face, and a small sense that you’re exactly where you’re supposed to be—walking forward, unhurried, letting the street keep humming around you.
| Extremely lucky to have such a great team of marketing experts at Club Monaco. Through our normal day-to-day discussions we found the group has a mutual love of the fall season. I decided to orgainize a “Welcome Fall” day on the first Monday of the month and here is what we ended up with.
Another silly national “holiday”, so Happy National Watermelon Day!I choose to make some infused spa water with yellow type of fruint. It was not my intention but the color of the watermelon confused everyone in thinking that there was pineapple involved. It was interested to see everyone taste the water and be surprised. I thought it would be enough that i sliced some pieces up and put them in half of the rind, but most did not make the connection. LOL
| I started today out with the intent to play some PokemonGo in Soho. I ran my battery down to zero so I started shopping.
I was doing a good job at resisting my shopping compulsion until I saw a 5 foot long pair of Diesel Black Gold jeans hanging at the Diesel Soho store. Needless to day I was intrigued, and was convinced to try them on. The DBG 2614 are really quite cool. They are made to bunch as you wear them and have this texture that I could never achieve on other jeans. They are lightweight and stretchy, so easy to bunch how and where you like. I found that If I bunch them over my entire leg they do slightly drift down as the day goes on. On a side note I bought a matching short sleeve button down and shorts from Club Monaco just for a laugh and ended up really liking them.
It is a strange thing when a spur of the moment idea turns into something more. I never intended to make such a production out of making infused water at work, but I no doubt went a bit too far and pushed the idea over the edge into a full-blown activity.
I was in the midst of closing out a credit card and started browsing the rewards portal to spend the last of my points. The rewards portal was never too exciting (one of the reasons I paid off the card), often filled with gimmicky suburban delights like Blade BluRay discs and shake weights. I decided to default to kitchen gadgets when I came across a Yorkshire Glassware Dispenser and Mason Jar Mugs. It was done all too quickly; the glassware was purchased and shipped to my desk at Club Monaco Corporate Offices.
I thought to myself, “I’m going to cut coffee and drink water, that way I will save money and be healthy.”
Day One the dispenser was filled with cucumbers and water. Ten minutes into positioning it next to my desk it was instantly dubbed “Spa Water” by my coworkers, Hannah and Robin. From there a contribution list was started, a cute towel was set down to catch condensation, and the rest is history.
ThymeMandrin OrangesCucumbers
It Takes a Team
If I am the Spirit, Hannah (@hlbiddle) and Robin (@turningpaiges) are the Goddesses of Spa Water. These two are a delight on a normal day, but they have definitely made this an enjoyable activity.
After offering the water to the rest of the eCommerce team at Club Monaco, it was proclaimed a good “moral booster,” but really it just makes me feel like a summer’s breeze ~ relaxed.
Both Hannah and Robin have been very helpful at keeping the contribution list on track, cutting/displaying the fruits & veggies, and keeping the flavors fresh.
Top 10 Infused Water Flavors
Cucumber + Mandarin Orange + Thyme
Tangelo + Lime + Lemon + Grapefruit
Black Raspberry + Lime
Pineapple + Granny Smith Apples + Basil
Ginger + Pear + Grape
Blood Orange + Mango + Kiwi
Grapefruit + Strawberry
Strawberry + Lemon + Mint
Watermelon + Cantaloupe + Honeydew
Classic Cucumber
The Spirit and the Goddesses are always looking for more Spa Water flavor ideas. Please contact me with your suggestions or comment below with them! Keep it fresh everyone!
