Hi Girls,

Every now and then we come across product that’s so much more than just a bottle on a shelf.

Actually, that’s what we’re always aspiring for, not only when creating our own product (Georgia by G & Company) but when searching for new product for our store.

Beauty is not about an instant fix or just one thing.

As in life, it’s about all the elements coming together, flowing positively (and sometimes negatively)…but always in the same direction; forward.

One of our recent finds are the skin and hair care products by Dolly & Milla.

They are tremendous!

Created by Gabriella Graham and Maia Pelosini each unique product was developed and hand-made in a humble New York City kitchen using 100% natural, organic, fair trade ingredients sourced worldwide.

“Our mission is to introduce chic, chemical-free green products to the market while promoting environmental awareness, human rights and supporting the indigenous cultures of our world. Our distinctive packaging evokes traditional, indigenous face and body paint and the true colors of nature. Designed by world renowned artist Roy Nachum, each brush stroke and symbol was hand painted to create a unique language.”

The Cane Sugar and Rose Petals face exfoliant has become our weekly bathroom obsession!

In an instant, it brings back your most beautiful baby face.

Stop by Georgia today, pick up some Dolly & Milla and see for yourself the wonderful effects their products will have not just on your body, but mind & soul!

–Georgia

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Me with 2.5 of My 4 Kids on a Typical Vaca

Over the last 5 years, I’ve been pregnant or nursing for, well, the last five years.  It’s been one continuous baby-making-raising-loving fest that I have totally enjoyed.

Over the last five years I’ve spent an inordinate amount of time with my kids.  I nurse for sometimes 2 years, I co-sleep with them, I never travel with out them, I refuse to spend more than 1 week apart, we family-hibernate in the mountains every weekend together, I’m hands-on each and every day for hours before I go to work at around 5pm…Basically my kids and I are as thick as thieves.

This makes for very happy, well-adjusted, lively kids.  Georgia, Cassius, Penelope and Othello possess definitive attitudes all their own and clearly boast an ownership of life that makes me proud.  My children glow from the inside out and I believe it’s in part due to the close way we raise them.

That being said, I’m also positive that my kids have taken a toll on my relationship.  Mama Bear and Papa Bear are in desperate need of an adult-only vacation – the kind that I vaguely remember from years past.

I want to travel somewhere warm and sexy, and lie on the beach with only my itsy-bitsy bikini, an I-Pod and my man.  I want our bed to be for just us – and maybe our Polaroid.  I want a morning shower where I can actually enjoy my awesome soap and loofah.  I want day after day of endless quiet except for some Bob, Nina, Marvin, and Mini in the background.  After the past five years, my man and I need more than just ‘date night’.  In fact, I’m throwing up my deuces to “dinner and a movie” and demanding something sandy, sexy and secluded.

Can I get an “Amen” from the moms out there who know exactly how Mama Bear feels?

I think I need to change my surroundings, and create an environment (if only for a long weekend) where I can really focus on my bf and EVERYthing he’s talking about  (That hasn’t happened in a while.) Fully indulge him. (The kids always come first.) Laugh at his jokes (And I mean a belly laugh that implies there is no other place I’d rather be other than right here.)

Can I get away for 4 days?  Yes.  Is it easy?  No.

But I’m on a mission to get into my old head space where I thought for days about just the right words to convey just the right romance to the man of my dreams.  To be in the moment of love.  To love the sexy.  To bring it.

Yup, this baby-making-mama is about to bring it.  If only for a long weekend…sordid details to come.

– Jodie

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Hi girls,

As always, we love sharing with you our newest and much loved product!

Cynde Watson, Make up artist/beauty expert to the stars, created the perfect line for real, multi-tasking women with everyday needs. The line provides lasting coverage for face, eyes, lips, and cheeks with professional results.  We love all the lush and sublime colors and the fact that you literally can get ready with in five minutes.

Especially for some of us “non make-up girls”, this is our answer to looking effortlessly beautiful.

Stop by tonight and meet Cynde, try out the line for yourself, and enjoy 15% off of all Georgia by G & Company product.

–Georgia

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Cynde Watson needs to be your best friend!  If you don’t already, make it a point to know her.

Makeup artist to the stars, Cynde takes “gorgeous” to “flawless”.  With her line of simple PENCILS even the “non-makeup girl” will love this!

We’ve made Cynde our new bestest.  You should too!  Come hang with us on Thursday 8/26, as we celebrate the launch of her line, sold exclusively @Georgia.

Enjoy your perfect beauty with Cynde Watson!

– Georgia

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Hi Girls,

Those of you who have been following our blog know that John Perry, New York City painter, is one of the local artists we love to keep our eye on.

(He was listed on our list of  “People We Enjoy Watching”)

John Perry’s work defies what some would consider “modern art”.  Ironically, he truly is a modern-renaissance-man.

Staying true to what he believes in, is what makes us respect him…  it’s also what makes his work so compelling.

Recently he finished a year-long project, that was commissioned by Steve Nash (NBA Superstar)…  here is the unveiling of John Perry’s “Nash Family Portrait”.

Enjoy!

– Georgia

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Hi Girls,

We are on a quest for a deep and meaningful connection to all that is awesome.  It’s our eternal quest that will take us around the world and hopefully back again.

We look for beauty, connection, reason, enlightenment – things that help us feel wonderful in the midst of all this grandness.

This can be a beautiful journey – done solo or in tangent – but guaranteed to always connect us where we feel separate.  Ground us where we feel weightless.  Delight us where we feel sad.  And prove splendor where we feel inglorious.

This Thursday, GEORGIA will celebrate the search for SOUL.  Please join us and meet the author of an extraordinary book that will take you on his personal journey.

Hair, Body & Soul always at Georgia!

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Nain

Name: Nain
Classical Flutist

Super cool beautiful energy…

– Jodie

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Aron Ranen made a documentary on the business of Black hair care.  It changed my life. Literally.  I was working in fashion, as Director of PR for Zac Posen.  I had been in that world for years…over ten long ones – to tell the truth. After watching Aron’s film, I decided not to go back.  In fact, I decided never to go back to fashion.  I made a major life move.  From that very moment, I chose to embrace beauty – to bring intimacy and passion to an industry that began with the most passionate and revolutionary woman, Madam C. J. Walker.

Watching that documentary was one of those moments that we all should have.  A moment where “it” is so clear…where the next step is so clear.  One would be a fool not to respond. In fact, all one has to do is respond and something major happens.

And it did.  I love our company.  I love what we do.  I love who we do it with.  Our small team at Georgia is such a perfect mash-up of creative, smart and funny women. The larger “team”, of blogers, product junkies, and international beauties is the perfect crowd to be down with.

I’ve crossed over.  From here on out, I’m Team Beauty.

Check out the inspiration:  http://tinyurl.com/5sbja4

– Jodie

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I’m a Leo.  Born in the magical year of 1970.

This month I graduate, from ‘up and coming’ status to ‘officially here’ status.

That’s right, I turn 40.

This is the age that is known to make or break…think mid life crisis infidelities, outlandish car purchases, wacky social behavior, acute analysis of one’s stagnant career followed by a complete upheaval of one’s life.

Ha!  That’s not the path I’m going down.  I’m looking at 40 as my moment of clarity.  I believe it’s when all will finally click for me.  When effort aligns with result.  When breaks are caught.  When the world is speaking my language.  It’s been a long time in the making and I’m totally ready for this.

There are so many things I want.  Success is one of them.  I pray for my ideas to be actualized and for more ideas to come.  I ask for health of mind so that my demons can’t catch me.  At 40 I want to be nimble enough to dodge all of my shortcomings.  I would like beauty, deep internal beauty – the kind that is remembered for decades.  And some of that Geisha beauty that stops people dead in their path.  I hope to hold on to love more than lust.  To do, more than talk about doing.  To create.  I really want to create .  And to move – people and thought.  Most of all I want to find a pace that is not frantic and a rhythm that allows for deep, strong contact. I want to make my kids laugh.  I want to fall in love over and over and over again…with my boyfriend.

Hey, it’s a lot of expectation to put on just one year…but it’s my 40^th damn it!  And that‘s the path I’m going down.  And you know how it works…if you say it, it shall be true.

Birthday wishes to me!

-Jodie

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