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December 10, 2013
Life is a journey. We never know where it will lead us, the destination is always unknown.
We can choose to see this journey as an adventure and rise and flow with the good and the bad, or we can stay stuck driving around the roundabout, spinning our wheels in instead of going with the flow of the journey.
When we grasp the life is an adventure mindset, we open our wings and begin to fly. It is in fact in this mindset that we soar to our greatest possibilities in life.
December 5, 2013
I posted last week about a purchase of Cyntha Rowley pajamas that I made a few weeks ago at Marshalls in Newburyport. The black pajamas had so much dye in them that even after multiple washes, the pajamas stained two sets of cotton damask sheets and a pink fleece bathrobe.
I had commented on Cynthia Rowley’s FaceBook page and yesterday I got a reply:
Hi Pamela. Please contact ecommerce@cynthiarowley.com so we can get more information on your purchase. Thank you.
I was heartened that Cynthia Rowley (company) had replied and felt there might be something done about the situation, as Marshalls will not accept returns on worn pajamas. I emailed ecommerce@cynthiarowley.com with an explanation of what happened and the photo of my badly stained pink bathrobe with the pajamas. Here’s the email response I received:
I’m very sorry to hear about what happened with your purchase. For items like these pyjamas, Marshall’s own factories are the ones that produces these so we recommend you contact Marshall’s. I’m sorry I cannot help further: http://www1.marshallsonline.com/tjx/customer-service.asp
This certainly isn’t the response I was expecting. In fact it is more than a little disconcerting to know that a well known fashion label such as Cynthia Rowley allows a large discount chain store company like Marshalls to manufacture under their label with no oversight to the quality of goods.
Which leads to the next question… I’ve bought other Cynthia Rowley fashion and home goods at Marshalls over the past couple of years. Who manufacturing the merchandise? Cynthia Rowley or Marshalls?
Regardless… a $24.99 purchase ruined approximately $200 of personal goods. I’ll never buy Cynthia Rowley at Marshalls again. I may just never buy Cynthia Rowley merchandise anywhere, if their label is farmed out to discount stores.
November 27, 2013
I bought* a pair of Cynthia Rowley black pajamas with white piping on them at Marshalls in Newburyport, MA a few weeks ago. Sadly, the pajamas seem to have had way too much black dye in them. Even with washing them multiple times, they have permantly stained a set of white 400 ct cotton damask sheets, a set of pale pink 400 ct cotton damask sheets and a pale pink fleece bathrobe.
Because they are pajamas and they have been worn I can not return them to Marshalls. I’ve soaked everything stained in OxyClean, however the stains did not come out of either set of sheets or the bathrobe.
November 5, 2013
Today I re-mind myself that nothing is permanent. The leaves on the trees change with the seasons. Flowers bloom, live out their cycle and disintegrate on the wind. Life is ever changing. I stay on track, holding on tighter some days than others, going with the flow.
~ Pamela Leavey
October 24, 2013
Everyday brings a new opportunity for me to fill my life with love and light. I re-mind myself today that in opening my heart to give, I also receive. I am ever grateful for the blessings in my life. I am abundant. ~ Pamela J. Leavey
October 10, 2013
She walks, she paces, stops, twirls slowly taking in the 360 degrees as if it were a panoramic film. For aren’t the scenes about us that we see from moment to moment just photographic memories that thunder through our minds like a slide show. It’s all out there, on the big screen. There is no veil, no curtain, just a screen or maybe… it is a moving window on life.
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