Art Book
$18.99
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Balm for the soul—Alessandra Olanow offers advice, inspiration, and encouragement for anyone who needs a shoulder to lean on during a difficult time.
“I Know This Too Shall Pass. (But It Would Be Helpful to Know When).”
I Used to Have a Plan brings Olanow’s soothing sensibility to a wider audience, featuring new drawings and ideas that touch upon the universal experiences of unexpected change and loss. Divided into five parts—“I Didn’t See That Coming,” “It’s OK That You’re Not OK,” “Where’d I Go,” “The Only Way Out Is Through,” and “I Like It Here, Can I Stay a While?”—the book beautifully encapsulates the experience of encountering difficulty, processing it and healing from it, and becoming stronger and with a better sense of self.
Full of advice, commiseration, empathy, and wit that is comforting, helpful, direct, and remarkable in its truth, I Used to Have a Plan helps everyone through the painful yet ultimately uplifting process of healing.
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A local, women owned store offering a colorful selection of women's, kids and home goods in Portland, Oregon.
Founded in 2016, The Yo Store originally opened as a children's store exclusively carrying European toys and clothing.
The store has since expanded its offerings to a little bit of everything - items for our homes, to wear, to gift.
We sell unique, hard to find, colorful and quality goods sourced from small independent makers worldwide. We stock items for the busy mum, dad, auntie, uncle, friend and the whole modern family from brands like Mini Rodini, Bobo Choses, Baggu, Boy Smells and Simon Miller.
The owner and curator of The Yo Store is Brit Sarah Radcliffe, mum of two. Having moved from her hometown of London to Portland in 2009, Sarah opened up her first store in downtown Portland in 2012 called Yo Vintage where she sold premium vintage clothing until 2015.
After becoming a first time mum, she reopened The Yo Store in 2016, with her one year old son in tow. To this day, she continues to bring her European influence and curatorial buying experience to create a unique assortment of European children, adult and home goods to our sunny corner store in NW Portland, Oregon.
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Alessandra Olanow is an illustrator and writer who lives with her daughter Coco in Brooklyn, New York.
After a series of events left her a divorced single mother questioning herself, her relationships, and basically, everything she thought was true about her “picture-perfect” life, Alessandra Olanow began drawing and posting illustrations on Instagram that reflected her feelings and struggles to right her life. She chronicled her journey of healing, expressing the shock, delusion, denial, self-pity, and self-doubt she experienced and the self-empathy and forgiveness that ultimately helped her regain a sense of self—but stronger, more fearless, and more hopeful than before. Her charming illustrations and keen, memorable observations—struck a chord. Within a year, her audience grew dramatically, from 9,500 to 157,000 followers, including celebrities Katie Couric, Jennifer Garner, Elise Loehnen (chief content officer at Goop), the poet Joao Doederlein, and Joanna Goddard (founder of A Cup of Jo).