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Bling Fling

By Cate Coulacos Prato,
The Boston Globe
April 11 2004

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Over a year ago, Watertown's Michelle Stewart launched her Inner Bling website (www.InnerBling.com) to promote the sparkle within ourselves, as opposed to the bling-bling we buy to show off on the outside.

Stewart's intention was to sell T-shirts and bumper stickers with Inner Bling messages like ''Shine within" and ''Show your soul, not your stuff," and once the business got off the ground she would donate a portion of online sales to nonprofit causes that complement the Inner Bling message.
Now, with Inner Bling hearing ka-ching, ka-ching, Stewart is entering into charitable relationships with several organizations, promising 10 percent of online sales to Media Education Foundation (www.mediaed.org, based in Northampton); Americans for the Arts (www.americansforthearts.org); Tolerance.org (www.tolerance.org); and Project Think Different (www.projectthinkdifferent.org).

Stewart will celebrate her new business relationships by giving 25 percent of her profits from sales at Ladies Night 2 -- a fashion show and sale featuring pop-inspired creations by area women -- to Project: Think Different.

Stewart chose Jamaica Plain-based PTD because the organization works locally to ''create, develop, and amplify new messages using music, film, and video to inspire positive change and remake popular culture," she said.
''Ladies Night 2" will take place at the Jorge Hernandez Cultural Center, 85 West Newton Street in Boston's South End from 7 to 10 p.m.
For more information, contact Honah Lee Milne at 617-697-7405 (thehonahlee@hotmail.com).

For more information, contact Honah Lee Milne at 617-697-7405 (thehonahlee@hotmail.com) .
Cate Coulacos Prato can be reached at prato@globe.com. back to top