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I created and started this thread nearly 14 years ago. 😎🎈
I will change it often from now on. This is just a knock around
thread about things in life. My life and others. I am an avid Heidi
Daus Collector, former singer, model and so on. I do this thread because
I enjoy what I do. I love fashion and music and HSN is a little of both.
I cover a lot of music and fashion on this thread. ✨😎
I am going to wish a safe Summer to all the Peeps out there and please
stay safe. 🌹✨😎I have been shopping and posting on HSN since the late
90’s 😎I have wonderful memories from the HSN we all know and love.
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NATIONAL SOFT ICE CREAM DAY
National Soft Ice Cream Day on August 19 gives us a tasty way to cool off on a hot summer day. Whether you enjoy it in a bowl or on a cone, grab some soft serve and enjoy!
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Happy Birthday to HSN Heidi Daus. 🎈😎💕
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I am so sorry you have to deal with this. I hope you have fans on and some cool tea
to help with the heat.I wish you could go somewhere with A/C close to home. I hope the tech can fix the
problem and Oodie if you have to get a cool room please do so this heat is no joke.
Please let me know how things turn out when you can and open some windows if that
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Peace Out Peeps have a cool and safe evening. 😎🎈
Happy Birthday Diane Gilman. 🎈
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Happy Birthday Diane let’s not forget another client Sir Rod Stewart. 💕😎🎈
Maggie May
Song by Rod StewartWake up, Maggie, I think I got somethin’ to say to you
It’s late September and I really should be back at school
I know I keep you amused, but I feel I’m being used
Oh, Maggie, I couldn’t have tried any more
You led me away from home
Just to save you from being alone
You stole my heart and that’s what really hurts
The mornin’ sun when it’s in your face really shows your age
But that don’t worry me none, in my eyes, you’re everything
I laughed at all of your jokes, my love, you didn’t need to coax
Oh, Maggie, I couldn’t have tried any more
You led me away from home
Just to save you from being alone
You stole my soul, and that’s a pain I can do without
All I needed was a friend to lend a guiding hand
But you turned into a lover, and mother, what a lover, you wore me out
All you did was wreck my bed, and in the morning, kick me in the head
Oh, Maggie, I couldn’t have tried any more
You led me away from home
‘Cause you didn’t wanna be alone
You stole my heart, I couldn’t leave you if I tried
I suppose I could collect my books and get on back to school
Or steal my daddy’s cue and make a living out of playin’ pool
Or find myself a rock and roll band that needs a helpin’ hand
Oh, Maggie, I wished I’d never seen your face
You made a first-class fool out of me
But I’m as blind as a fool can be
You stole my heart, but I love you anyway
Maggie, I wished I’d never seen your face
I’ll get on back home one of these days
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Happy Birthday Diane from your client Jim Morrison. 🎈😎💕
The Doors – Light My Fire Lyrics
You know that it would be untrue
You know that I would be a
If I was to say to you
Girl, we couldn’t get much higher
Come on baby light my fire
Come on baby light my fire
Try to set the night on, fire
The time to hesitate is through
No time to wallow in the mire
Try now we can only lose
And our love become a funeral pyre
Come on baby light my fire
Come on baby light my fire
Try to set the night on, fire yeah
The time to hesitate is through
No time to wallow in the mire
Try now we can only lose
And our love become a funeral pyre
Come on baby light my fire
Come on baby light my fire
Try to set the night on, fire yeah
You know that it would be untrue
You know that I would be a
If I was to say to you
Girl, we couldn’t get much higher
Come on baby light my fire
Come on baby light my fire
Try to set the night on fire
Try to set the night on fire
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Happy Birthday Diane from another famous client. 😎🎈
The Jimi Hendrix Experience Lyrics
“Purple Haze”Purple haze all in my brain
Lately things, they don’t seem the same
Acting funny, but I don’t know why
‘Scuse me while I kiss the skyPurple haze all around
Don’t know if I’m coming up or down
Am I happy or in misery?
Whatever it is, that girl put a spell on me
Help me! Help me!
Ah no, noYeah! Purple haze all in my eyes
Don’t know if it’s day or night
You got me blowing, blowing my mind
Is it tomorrow, or just the end of time?No, help me
No, yeah purple haze
Oh no, no
Oh, help me
Tell me, tell me
Can’t go on like this
You make me blow my mind
No, no, no
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Happy Birthday Diane here is a little something from another famous client Cher. 🎈😎
Cher Lyrics
No matter how hard I try
You keep pushing me aside
And I can’t break through
There’s no talking to youIt’s so sad that you’re leaving
It takes time to believe it
But after all is said and done
You’re gonna be the lonely one
Oh, ohDo you believe in life after love?
I can feel something inside me say
“I really don’t think you’re strong enough. No.”
Do you believe in life after love?
I can feel something inside me say
“I really don’t think you’re strong enough. No.”What am I supposed to do?
Sit around and wait for you?
Well, I can’t do that
And there’s no turning backI need time to move on
I need love to feel strong
‘Cause I’ve had time to think it through
And maybe I’m too good for you
Oh, ohDo you believe in life after love?
I can feel something inside me say
“I really don’t think you’re strong enough. No.”
Do you believe in life after love?
I can feel something inside me say
“I really don’t think you’re strong enough. No.”Well, I know that I’ll get through this
‘Cause I know that I am strong
And I don’t need you anymore
Oh, I don’t need you anymore
Oh, I don’t need you anymore
No, I don’t need you anymoreDo you believe in life after love?
I can feel something inside me say
“I really don’t think you’re strong enough. No.”
Do you believe in life after love?
I can feel something inside me say
“I really don’t think you’re strong enough. No.”Do you believe in life after love?
I can feel something inside me say
“I really don’t think you’re strong enough. No.”
Do you believe in life after love?
I can feel something inside me say
“I really don’t think you’re strong enough. No.”(Do you believe in life after love?)
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Happy Birthday Diane and here is one of your favorite songs from one of your famous
clients love Mick! 😎🎈💕
The Rolling Stones Lyrics
“Start Me Up”If you start me up
If you start me up I’ll never stop
If you start me up
If you start me up I’ll never stopI’ve been running hot
You got me ticking gonna blow my top
If you start me up
If you start me up I’ll never stop
Never stop, never stop, never stopYou make a grown man cry
You make a grown man cry
You make a grown man cry
Spread out the oil, the gasoline
I walk smooth, ride in a mean, mean machineStart it up
If you start it up
Kick on the starter give it all you got, you got to, you got to
I can’t compete with the riders in the other heatsIf you rough it up
If you like it I can slide it up, slide it up, slide it up, slide it upDon’t make a grown man cry
Don’t make a grown man cry
Don’t make a grown man cry
My eyes dilate, my lips go green
My hands are greasy
She’s a mean, mean machineStart it up
Start me up
Give it all you got
You got to never, never, never stopSlide it up
Baby up just slide it up
Start it up, start it up, start it up
Never, never, neverYou make a grown man cry
You make a grown man cry
You make a grown man cry
Ride like the wind at double speed
I’ll take you places that you’ve never, never seenIf you start it up
Love the day and we will never stop, never stop, never stop, never stop
Tough me up
Never stop, never stopYou, you, you make a grown man cry
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‘Queen of Jeans’ Diane Gilman Talks Shop
Tele-retail fashion pioneer Diane Gilman built an empire out of selling jeans to the baby boomer generation. Not to mention she’s currently Home Shopping Network’s longest running and No. 1 fashion personality, and the No. 2 vendor across all categories. Impressive, too, that her brand brings in more than $150 million in sales annually and has sold more than 9.5 million pairs of jeans to date. Well-done, Diane!
But c’mon. You don’t get that far and that successful without knowing what women want. And Diane has hit on it more than once in this lifetime. While still in college, she opened a store on Melrose Avenue in Los Angeles that earned her an A-list clientele of Hollywood starlets. Throughout the 1960s and ’70s, she designed custom denim for some of the music industry’s biggest stars. Then she relocated to New York City in the early 1980s and launched a collection of washable silks, the first of its kind in North America, which was quickly picked up by several major department stores. Her DG2 jeans’ HSN debut was an instant success and sold 5,000 pairs within two minutes. She has since developed a loyal fan base and moves 200,000 pairs of jeans in a single shopping session (!).
Let’s catch up with this indomitable femme to talk everything from how to shun stereotypes to the day Cher walked into her store in L.A.
How did you get into the jeans biz?
I often say my jeans saved my life, and the truth is, they’ve saved my life twice. First, in the 1960s, I started designing jeans as my Clarion Call of Freedom—at last, I could break out of the safe, cookie-cutter designs of the 1950s. Hand embroidery, dyes and rinses, rock ‘n’ roll ragged edges—that tough and sexy look represented rebellion and freedom.Decades later, when I was in my late 50s, I sought rebellion and freedom again—this time from the matronly fashions women of my age were being offered as our only choice. I longed to feel sexy again. I longed to feel good in my jeans, like I did in the ’60s. This led me to create jeans with stretch and style and new technology that make baby boomer women look and feel great. My DG2 jeans represent hope in a pant leg.
You’ve designed custom denim for some major names like Cher, Janis Joplin and Jimi Hendrix. Is that intimidating in any way, or did you see it all as just another day?
Yes and no. When I designed jeans for Janis, she was just starting her career. I met her at her very first audition for record agents, at the famous Whisky A Gogo on the Sunset Strip. She was a brilliant wild child, the perfect model for my handmade jeans. Designing for her was fascinating, but not intimidating.On the other hand, when Cher pulled up to the Los Angeles clothing store I had with a couple friends in 1967—called I’m a Hog for You, Baby—in her chauffeured white Rolls-Royce, that was intimidating. She took a look around, then yelled out, “Sonny!,” and they bought out our entire store of A-line hippie dresses.
What advice would you give to other women who want to launch a brand?
Go with your heart, not your mind. Powerful, deeply personal niche ideas are where success and growth is today. My brand is a perfect example. I had very personal fashion needs as a middle-aged woman. I wanted to wear jeans and feel good about my body again, and I believed millions of women must have been experiencing the same frustrations. That intuition built a $100 million brand.What’s one thing do you wish you could have a do-over on?
That’s a tough one. Maybe I wish I would have recognized my own power earlier in my life, but then again, having my greatest success come later in life—selling 10 million pairs of jeans and building a denim empire in my 60s—has a very special and uniquely satisfying quality to it.What advice would you give women when it comes to their denim collection?
Go for a fashion statement, but assess what you want and need. I think, many times, we get too caught up in runway rather than reality.I love how your book, Good Jeans: 10 Simple Truths about Feeling Great, Staying Sexy & Aging, addresses feminine stereotypes—what mistakes do you think women make when it comes to aging?
Many women give in to the myth that aging equals old, and nothing could be further from the truth. Women today have so many fashion and beauty options to reshape the vision of what 50, 60, 70 and beyond looks like. It’s important to own where you’re at. Give yourself permission to write your own rule book and love yourself.It may sound corny, but I have made my own rules my whole life, and I am in the middle of transforming my look and life yet again. After six months of chemotherapy for breast cancer that my doctors tell me will be completely cured by year’s end, I lost my signature auburn hair. I depended on my long mane of hair—in red, the color of my youth—to make a fashion statement. But when it was gone, I decided to create a new signature. My hair has started growing back in and it’s pure white! To my surprise, I love it. I look at it as an opportunity to put together a new, individual look—one that’s still chic, sexy and me.
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