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CLOCKWISE FROM LEFT: Stephen Brown, the designer who created the Glitterville line, holds a camera-shy

chicken given to him by Tori Spelling. (PHOTO: RACHEL SNYDER)

The seasonal pop-up store on Lovers Lane offers an

array of decorating products. (PHOTOS: JOSH HICKMAN)

GLITTERVILLE INVASION

Pop-up store brings holiday decorating mirth

CHECK IT OUT

What: Glitterville Pop up store When: Open through Dec. 26 Where: Pavilion on Lovers Lane Online: glitterville.com

By Josh Hickman

Special Contributor

Kelly Dworkin, co-founder of Preston Center Plaza gift and party mainstay Swoozie’s, knows how to add some wacky whimsy to her holiday decorating.

“I’ve given my fair share of parties at the house, and Glitterville was always the central decoration,” she said.

Swoozie’s has carried the Glitterville line for nearly two decades, and this has helped bring even more of the brand to the Park Cities area with a pop-up shop at the Pavillion on Lovers Lane through Dec. 26.

“We were always targeting the Park Cities for the Glitterville Pop up,” Dworkin said. “Lovers Lane is perfect.”

Product line designer Stephen Brown also sees the location as ideal.

“It’s an area that really appreciates that all of Glitterville is completely handmade — that really appreciates that craftsmanship,” he said.

Brown founded the popular holiday and party décor line in 2003. Its motto: “Making every day a holiday!”

His fun, whimsical designs have skyrocketed in popularity with celebrities and plain folk alike — Brown now decorates Oprah’s Christmas tree every year.

“My background is in television and film,” Brown explained. “And I started making ornaments on the set of a movie I was doing with Mariah Carey. Someone saw them and said, ‘You should really make ornaments and sell them.’ That’s how it started.”

Working from his home studio in Knoxville, Tennessee, Brown hand makes the original for most Glitterville products. He then travels to Europe and Asia to work with local artisans, who reproduce his designs using the same techniques.

The creative entrepreneur sees spreading joy as his business.

“My thought is we should fill every day of the year with something that’s fun and wacky and makes us happy,” he said. “There’s all different characters that do take you all throughout the year.”

Fans of TLC’s Craft Wars may recognize Brown as one of the judges.

“It was fun because I looked at each one of those people like me, just loving what they do,” he said.

My thought is we should fill every day of the year with something that’s fun and wacky and makes us happy. Stephen Brown

Brown also enjoyed watching many people turn to crafting during the COVID lockdowns and social distancing.

“I did a lot of Instagram Lives where we would just craft with people all the way through the lockdown period,” he said. “In bleak times, people just try to do things that make their lives happier. What better way to do that than crafting and surrounding yourself with giant hippos named Pongo and Llamas named Lala standing on a watermelon?”

The Future of Work

Recruiter: Hybrid schedules here to stay

By Rachel Snyder

rachel.snyder@peoplenewspapers.com

e COVID-19 pandemic has forced ongoing conversations about the merits of working remotely instead of in the office.

“I definitely think work from home in some capacity – virtual work – is here to stay,” said Cindy Yared, founder of Dallas-based recruiting firm Spot On Talent.

Nearly three-quarters of about 5,000 employees surveyed worldwide by global management company McKinsey & Company would like to work from home two or more days per week.

More than half want at least three days of remote work, according to the research shared online.

“I think (the pandemic) was an opportunity for businesses to really evaluate what do we want to do,” Yared said. “What worked? What didn’t work? What do our employees want?”

Eighteen months later, businesses are facing difficult decisions, she said, because Cindy Yared of Spot On Talent some employ- works with clients in various ers are much industries, from accounting more open to and finance to marketing and making re- legal support. (COURTESY PHOTO) mote working permanent than others, and that impacts recruiting for those that are less flexible. “Now that they’ve lost out on a couple of good hires, they’re starting to say, ‘Oh my gosh – people are passing up great jobs because it’s not meeting their requirements,’” she said.

Yared said some job candidates are even willing to take a pay cut for a flexible work environment and the ability to work from home at least some of the time.

Jobseekers are also more conscious of commute times than they may have been before the pandemic.

“If there is some in office that’s required, commute is definitely a topic,” Yared said.

“Many more of them are trying to stay closer to home,” she said. “I think candidates are just much more in tune with what a total package looks like. So, it’s not all about money or salary. It’s really about what else is included.”

ABOUT CINDY YARED

The former president and owner of sta ng company Corps Team Dallas founded the recruiting firm Spot on Talent in 2011.

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Balenciaga

NorthPark Center

Creativity, masterful cuts, and exquisite techniques make the fashion house, founded by Cristobal Balenciaga in 1917, an industry leader. e location, a Dallas-Fort Worth exclusive, is on level one between Nieman Marcus and Dillard’s.

Burberry Childrenswear

NorthPark Center e global luxury fashion brand with a distinctive British identity combines innovation and craftsmanship in womenswear, menswear, childrenswear, and accessories. e location, another Dallas-Fort Worth exclusive, is on level one between Neiman Marcus and Dillard’s.

Shake Shack

Peter Millar

Highland Park Village e North Carolina-based clothing brand specializes in luxury performance sportswear, relaxed seasonal essentials, sophisticated classics, casually refined tailored clothing, and accessories.

Diesel

NorthPark Center

Launched in 1978 by Renzo Rosso, the lifestyle brand is a global leader in denim treatments, washes, fabric innovation, and fit. e Texas exclusive location is on level one between Nordstrom and Macy’s.

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NorthPark Center

Find the family-owned clothing brand’s premium fabrics in another Dallas-Fort Worth exclusive location on level one between Nordstrom and Macy’s.

Second Chapter Bookstore

Snider Plaza e pop-up bookstore operated by the Friends of the University Park Public Library between Short Stop and East Hampton will be open from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.

Tonal

NorthPark Center e Texas-exclusive at-home fitness brand brought its home gym system using advanced digital weight to continually adapt workouts to level one between Nordstrom and Macy’s.

UNOde50

NorthPark Center

The name of the Spanish handcrafted jewelry brand founded in Madrid in the 1990s means “one of fifty” because it originally created only 50 handmade units of each piece. All pieces are handmade in Madrid and undergo an anti-allergenic process. Find it on level one near Nordstrom.

COMING

Jo Malone London

NorthPark Center e British brand offers bespoke fragrances, coveted candles, and bath and body care. e Dallas-Fort Worth exclusive store will open this fall on level one between Nordstrom and Macy’s.

Levi’s

NorthPark Center e clothing company known for iconic men’s and women’s jeans, tops, trucker jackets, and accessories opens this winter on level one between Macy’s and Dillard’s.

Lip Lab

NorthPark Center e Bite Beauty concept was conceived in 2012 to bring a sensorial lipstick manufacturing experience to the consumer. Find 30+ pigments, four flavors, four finishes, an expert to lead the way, and endless shades of red, nude, pink, and plum this fall on level one between Macy’s and Dillard’s.

Salad and Go

10002 Marsh Lane

The Arizona eatery that first opened in East Dallas on Ross Avenue this summer will open at the corner of Walnut Hill Lane and Marsh Lane, documents filed with the city of Dallas indicate. The restaurant offers salads, wraps, breakfast burritos, soups, freshly brewed teas, lemonade, and cold brew coffee.

Shake Shack

NorthPark Center e eatery with the modern-day ‘roadside’ burger stand feel offers Angus beef burgers, chicken sandwiches, flat-top Vienna beef dog, frozen custard, crinkle-cut fries, craft beer, wine, and more.

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Holiday Fun For The Whole Family!

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$10 for adults $5 for children (ages 2-12) $5 for seniors (65 and up)

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SMU Alum Turns Entrepreneur Hunter Rice founded sendit SnapChat add-on for playing augmented reality games

By Rachel Snyder

Rachel.snyder@peoplenewspapers.com

An app designed by an SMU alumnus has made its way to the No. 3 ranked app among Lifestyle apps in Apple’s App Store.

Sendit, an iOS and Android app designed for people 17 and older, works as a SnapChat add-on. It allows users to play various augmented reality games (think SnapChat lenses, but interactive) and send anonymous messages. It also includes a blocking feature.

I was really proud about the impact that we had on campus, but I knew I wanted to accomplish this on a much bigger scale. Of course, in order to impact millions, the network needs to be digital. Hunter Rice

e app’s founder, SMU alumnus and California native Hunter Rice, decided to build a digital networking platform while a college student in Dallas. SMU alumnus Hunter Rice founded the sendit app, which integrates with SnapChat. (PHOTOS: COURTESY HUNTER RICE/SENDIT)

Rice helped start a chapter of the predominantly Jewish Alpha Epsilon Pi fraternity at SMU and worked on a communication tool for the campus called Sides before he graduated with a degree in business administration in 2016.

“I was really proud about the impact that we had on campus, but I knew I wanted to accomplish this on a much bigger scale. Of course, in order to impact millions, the network needs to be digital,” he said. “ e main objective when starting sendit was to get people closer to their friends. And we did this by innovating around the entry point of conversation.”

Rice said the app first launched about two and a half years ago, but it has changed since it first launched.

“Within the last year, sort of leading up to the pandemic, we were focused on these AR experiences, and that was the first time we sort of started working on that idea, and the launch of that was last summer,” he said. “We’ve been growing very quickly.”

Rice said the app is particularly popular with SnapChat-savvy Gen Z-ers aged from their late teens to 24.

“ is younger demographic really views social media the way I think it should be used, which is to stay connected and stay closer to your best friends,” he said.

Growing up in a hub for technology companies like Los Angeles also influenced the career field he’d choose.

“I grew up around entertainment, and that’s a lot of what L.A. is about,” Rice said. “I always gravitated toward tech, and I love the startup scene.”

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