Sorel's Great Fashion Event!

If you're in Portland, and didn't go to the Sorel Apres Ski Trunk Show last night, you missed out! Here's a pic of JulieAnna, Anna (from Sorel/Columbia corporate) and I showing off our fancy Sorel boots!

The event was great, and featured cute models in hot boots! Along with free treats (the chocolate truffles were a little piece of Heaven!) and free drinks (featuring the Joan of Arctic - hot cocoa, butterscotch and peppermint schnapps and Bailey's - amazing!) There was also a DJ, shoe displays and free Portland Monthly magazines.

There was a giveaway for two $25 Columbia Sportswear gift cards, along with the grand prize - a $500 shopping spree, the catch was you had to be present to win. So there's a sad story behind this giveaway, the drawing was at 7 p.m. and many people who showed up early started taking off a little before 7, a few people from our PR department included. When the name was drawn for the $500 shopping spree, Ali's boyfriend Jeremy was the special winner, except that he had left about 15 minutes before the drawing!! I called poor Ali to let her know that her boyfriend would not be buying her $500 worth of Sorel/Columbia stuff, and you should have heard her! I'm surprised that Jeremy is still with us today...haha.

Well, after that sad little event, we continued with our munching, boot shopping and beverage sipping. The boots this season are so cute!! Here are a few of our faves, the rest are at www.Sorel.com.

If you're in the Seattle area, you should know that you have an opportunity to win yourself a $500 shopping spree tonight (just make sure you don't leave early!) Here are the details:

·         Where: Columbia Seattle Store, 290 Pine Street, Seattle, WA

·         When: Thurs., Dec. 3, 5:30-7:30pm

·         Cost: The event is free and open to the public. Drinks and treats will also be free and unlimited.

·         Why: Glam up your footwear wardrobe, mingle, shop and sip the signature drink, the Joan of Arctic (hot cocoa and butterscotch schnapps). Enter to win a $500 Columbia shopping spree and other prizes – drawing at 7pm.

·         RSVP: seattlersvp@sorel.com

Happy boot shopping!! And remember, you can follow Sorel on Twitter at @sorelfoowear or on Facebook. Just a little heads up, I've heard word that there might be a boot giveaway on Twitter soon, so make sure you're following!!

Bring It ON!!!

Because four of the six ladies on our lovely PR team went to Oregon, we have decided that we hold the majority, and therefore can post our love for our Ducks on our blog. We are getting our green and yellow out and ready to roll for the Civil War - only a week to go! (Sorry Jill - but your Beavs are going DOWN!)

Enjoy our new favorite video, and of course GO DUCKS!!

Happy Turkey Day!

It's now officially the holiday season - tomorrow is Thanksgiving and we are exactly a month away from Christmas! So get in the spirit of eating tons of food and feeling incredibly full for the next few days, we thought we'd give your taste buds a preview of the joy that is Thanksgiving! (Hey, what can we say, we're a group of ladies who like our turkey and pie!)

Enjoy the long weekend and get ready for Christmas lights and pretty trees! Happy Thanksgiving!!

The Wonderful World of Disney

Before the ice had set and before the skates were sharpened, Disney On Ice Presents Worlds of Fantasy was given a kings welcome at the R/West offices.

To help gear up for the opening night ahead of us, the PR squad blasted such favorites from our childhood throughout the halls including, but not limited to:

1. Under The Sea
2. Hakuna Matata
3. Can You Feel The Love Tonight

Molly and Ali took off for opening night interviews and media at the Rose Garden. We were pleasantly surprised with FANTASTIC seats and quickly learned that front row seats can also equal awkward moments of eye-contact with the skaters. I'd never been that close to a hyena or giraffe in my entire life!

The next morning was an early one. As noted on previous R/West posts - The early morning PR bird gets the worm- that's the saying, right? A cast of 4 R/Westies joined a cast of 30+ Disney On Ice performers at 4:30am to start shooting for the two top local morning shows:





Out and About with Drew Carney on KGW Channel 8 and...












On the Go With Joe featuring Joe V. from KPTV Channel 12.










Brittney and I even got to get in on the action - I mean who wouldn't want a picture with Flounder and Sebastian?




The afternoon was filled with a lovely event planned alongside the FABULOUS folk from Special Olympics Oregon. We were able to set-up a skate clinic with stars from Disney On Ice Presents Worlds of Fantasy at the Rose Garden with athletes and their friends/family. Ten Special Olympics Oregon athletes were able to make it for the clinic and they were all smiles, all afternoon. One athlete was so excited that she brought along a photo book of her Disney cruise hoping to reunite with her favorite characters.

We all agreed that the best part of this event was in seeing the faces of these girls (Yes, we couldn't persuade any boy athletes to attend) light up as they took the ice.

The athletes and skaters were then escorted to a private suite where they met the world's favorite mice - Mickey and Minnie of course!

All in all, a great year for Disney On Ice. Can't wait to put on the ol' skates this winter and see if I can try one of those triple axle things- doesn't look too hard...

The R/West crew is a bunch of...

WINNERS! Ok, I'll back up and let you in on the details...

So a few months ago, our little PR team decided that we do some pretty cool stuff, and that it was time to see how we stack up in Portland's PR world. So we applied for four PRSA Spotlight awards - and good news - we stack up pretty well!

Last night we donned our best attire (had to pull out those fancy dress-up clothes that we never have to wear to work - thank goodness!), prepped ourselves for possible acceptance speeches (ok not quite, but we were excited!), and headed to the Governor's Hotel for the PRSA Spotlight awards ceremony.

It was great to mingle with Portland's PR pros and even greater to find out that we had won! (Keep in mind we have never entered awards, and we definitely flirted with the deadline!) We won three of the four awards we applied for - one for The Game Factory's Build-A-Bear Wii Celebrity Launch Event, and two awards for Taco Del Mar's Free Tacos on Tax Day! We wanted to share the good news with you - and here are our new, most prized possessions. (They have taken the place of our candy jar - that's how much we like them...)

On another very exciting note, our design department won a Rosey award last night for their amazing work on BridgePort Brewery's Raven Mad bottle labels - they were 3D and even came with 3-D glasses, very cool! Congrats R/West team!!

Disney On Ice Ticket Giveaway!

That's right. Disney On Ice presents Worlds of Fantasy is coming to the Rose Garden this Thursday, Oct. 22 through Sunday, October 25th.

In our final week before the show, we have teamed up with some amazing Portland area bloggers who have taken part in our Pixie Dust Hunt ticket giveaway. Each blogger has posted pictures of Tinker Bell's Pixie Dust for the past two weeks, asking viewers to guess the location of the Pixie Dust in Portland.

For your chance to win a family 4-pack of tickets visit these participating blogs:

Mad Hatter Mom

Portland Parents

Mom Mag

Frugal Living NW

Thrifty NW Mom

All shows are at the Rose Garden:
Thursday, October 22 – 7:30 PM

Friday, October 23 – 7:30 PM

Saturday, October 24 – 12:00 PM, 3:30 PM. 7:00 PM

Sunday, October 25 – 1:00 PM, 4:30 PM

Tickets for Disney On Ice presents Worlds of Fantasy are available at http://disney.go.com/disneyonice or by calling the Rose Garden box office at (877) 789-ROSE.

HairM's Portland's Hardest Working Man Contest

Think you or someone you know has what it takes to be named Portland's Hardest Working Man? HairM, Portland’s premier full service salon for men located in Beaverton and downtown Portland, is searching the Rose City for “Portland’s Hardest Working Man” to recognize him for his hard work and reward him with a well-deserved day of pampering, including a cut and a 55-minute massage, and night on the town--dinner at Fenouil in the Pearl and a stay at Hotel Lucia.

Whether he works 80-hour weeks, cleans up city streets, or simply works a job you're glad you don't have, tell us why he's worthy of this title!

Submit nominations now through October 31st with a quick post on HairM’s Facebook Fan Page or by emailing pdxworkingman@gmail.com.