Seattle - June 25, 2008

Makes Your Heart Flutter

Flutter Online Store

They say that necessity is the mother of invention.

Which means there’s no explanation for Flutter, a Wonderland-like Portland boutique that transcends the concept of “need.”

But skip the road trip: Now that owner Cindy Rokoff has launched an e-commerce site, anyone can shop her jumbled collection of found objects, artist-made goods, and antiques.

Find treasures for the home, closet, bookshelf, or apothecary. Look for hand-hooked throw pillows, pretty cameo rings, Côté Bastide bubble bath and sea salts, French soaps and perfumes, antique birdcages, and quirky resin mushroom sculptures, just to start.

All of which, yes, you could possibly live without.

If only frivolity weren’t the father of a well-stocked home and closet.

Available online at flutterclutter.com.