The Westerly

02/12/2026

Hi we are lookimg for a house cleaners Days Inn Ocean-Shores asap please call 360-289-9570

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12/18/2025

Dear, flood victims. We sympathize with you during this time of natural disasters. And would like to provide a solution to your housing needs.
The Days Inn in Ocean is located on 891 Ocean Shores Blvd NW Ocean Shores W.A. With a conjunction with the Westerly located at 870 Ocean Shores Blvd NW will provide you with discounted accommodation for a month-to-month basis. ( With short term solutions for your housing needs.)
These properties are located within downtown area of Ocean Shores. We do have units with fully furnished studios, wifi, cable, internet, waste management, 24 hours security as well as all utilities paid. With a indoor swimming pool and hot tube.
We can also offer transportation for a one time courtesy to the property. We also have laundry on site for our guest. There are also food banks with in the vicinity of this property. And near by grocery discount stores and well as a dollar general.
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Call (360)- 289-9570 OR call (390) -289-9570 or Email: [email protected]

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11/14/2025

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Located in Ocean Shores, WA along the Washington coast. Are you building a home in the Ocean Shores area and need a place to stay until your project is complete? Are you a traveling doctor or nurse?...

11/14/2025

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05/28/2025

Damn, Jeannie sure knew how to bring people together...

03/28/2025

Y'all, we have a very talented friend coming over this morning. And he knows what the new logo is going to be... Is it a "sign" from God? Well... Almost. He's definitely the best at what he does... Think you know who it is? I'll give you a hint:

He's got wood. And he knows how to use it.

😍😍😍😍😍😍

03/18/2025

Yes, she is sure it was a. Coyote, 100% sure, she knows what a coyote looks like. It was likely feeling love stuff for her shepherd mix and simply got caught up in his emotions for a minute there. Hopefully he has managed to regain his composure but be on the lookout and if you encounter him be advised to use caution and clear language as you lecture him about consent and don't stop until he is broken and ashamed. Do not attempt to hug. You cannot heal him, sis.

03/14/2025

It comes down to two... And I am both flattered and annoyed at how evenly all the logos scored across the board. On one hand it means that I did a good job but on the other hand it means that I've had to count over a thousand votes across 20 platforms shared dozens of times over and over again to make sure that I had the count right and knock another contender off the board. And now we are left with these two and I laugh out loud at what it has come down to because one of those logos got an enormous amount of my time and every single detail of it was meticulous and had purpose and the other logo was a rejected cast off from the first round where I made all the logos so simple and no one liked them and asked for more retro lol. And here we are.

The first round I just made logos that I thought were simple and easy to read. But then reading all the comments and the suggestions induced a spark of excitement and designing the next round took a lot of time. I wanted to put up four options that were very different from each other and each of them had a theme to it. Logo number one was designed to look like a symbol of Parks and recreation or the national wildlife department... It incorporated the original Westerly Wave which I wonder if people just did not realize? Because everyone screamed for option 4 because it had the wave not understanding that only one of the four didn't lol. But the animals in it were special to me because of the relationship that Ocean Shores has with its wildlife and it's outdoors. They're so comfortable and we're so comfortable and we all live together in the same space as if we're a family. Every great thing that we do is out there in that world and it was important to me to pay my respects to all that call Ocean Shores home. The eagles flying in numbers above and the deer always nearby watching and the bears just moving through the town without a care in the world. Logo number one was the only logo where I attempted to stay adhered to the original Westerly. I took the god awful seafoam green and matured it with a deep green that resonated with the Pacific Northwest and could match the skyline and the sea simultaneously. And where the original was childlike this one was aged and a little wiser. Something frustrating for me is the rejection of the layering and how people have struggled with the silhouettes of the trees crossing in front of the w. The layering was the most important aspect of that logo for me because that was symbolic of the people and how complex and how deep everyone's stories are and I wanted them to be stacked and then played out to show that depth. There's nothing one-dimensional about this place and it gets into your skin and into your heart so permanently and I was so committed to the layering that the font was just of the utmost importance because I needed it to be retro and I needed it to be legible and I needed it to be big and I needed it to be perfect. I'm going to stand behind the font because it just really, really really works. I hated the fonts on number three as much as anybody but that's a whole different gripe.

Logo 2 was extremely polarizing with half the people saying they absolutely loved it because of its beachy vibe and the other half of saying that they didn't love it because it didn't have the beach lol. That one I designed to look like a postcard and a shout out to copalis and instead of the Westerly wave it showed the mouth of the copalis River meeting the ocean and I think it's funny in a way that it managed to evoke such different opinions out of so many. It's very cheerful and pleasant to look at and even though that font is so overplayed and was never actually meant to make it umonto the screen in front of you ... It still makes you smile. The one I posted was a test when I was sorting through thousands of fonts trying to find one that I liked and I wanted to see what it would look like with handwriting and accidentally posted the wrong one. The actual finished product had almost a Western flavor to the font It was very very unique and I'm quite fond of it but I don't think that that logo says everything I wanted to say. And it didn't make the final cut Even though it was nipping at the others heels and got an enormous amount of love.

Logo 3 stressed me out. I knew going in I wanted to honor the quinault. Initially it was quite tribal. It also had the wildlife and a more muted wave and it was all monochromatic in a deep blues but the most important thing about it that I wanted to convey were the Northern lights, the Aurora. And once I did that it felt strange and like I should refine it and I picked a font and did it in a bright, bright turquoise and it really popped but I also felt like we were just swimming in blue at that point and there was something out of place about the color and I changed it to the contrasting gold but I didn't change the font and I should have because I think it was really beautiful and I just didn't work it out because it was the last one that I did and I was burnt out.

I cannot believe that you guys love number four so much because it took 4 seconds and all I did was take one of the rejected logos from the first round and put the wave on it and everyone has gone crazy for it and I can understand why because I loved it when I originally designed it as well but it's still frustrates me because it's nearly everything that the feedback was against in the first round and it's so strange to me that everyone keeps pointing out how much they love the wave and the simplicity because three of the four had the wave and the simplicity was what people did not like in the first round lol. There's absolutely no story behind number four and I gave it no consideration other than responding to statements about bringing back the Westerly wave by throwing a wave on a very simple design. I put none of Ocean Shores into that and the font's cool and vintage but I guess maybe it's because I just didn't work hard on it and so it makes me just laugh because of the two left to decide between, they could not be more different in every way to me.

These two were so close in votes that I'm posting them one last time just to make sure. I already know which one is the winner and unless there's a big shift in the next 24 hours I'm going to post the new face of the Westerly and get to work finding an artist to make our signage. I would love to reach out to the sand and sawdust festival participants in regards to hiring an artist to do the sign that will hang outside of the hotel and it's very, very important to us that it be done on local wood and by a local artist. I look forward to working with somebody on that project but in the meantime we have to decide what it's going to be and I'm really hoping that it's a bit easier count this time because It felt like I got a different number every single time I counted.. And when I say that they were so close in total that they were hard to count I mean that they were so close in total that every time I counted the winner changed. I think there was maybe six votes that separated them. But the good news about that is it means that whichever one wins everyone will probably be happy with the results. And I will try to make sure that the other isn't forgotten and we'll have to slap it on something lol.

I look forward to the day that I can paint over the seafoam green on the front of the building. Up next we're going to have a garage sale and clear out the garage that's attached to the property and we're going to remove the old locks on the doors and put new locks in and finally, a glass garage door. Then, we will have to see what we can do with that space because there are definitely some really great ideas floating around and I am really excited to see what's next.

The reveal will be tomorrow probably in the evening and then on to the next chapter. I feel like I'm doing a gender reveal and I also feel like I'm under obligation to say I don't have a favorite when we all know that that's a lie and yes I will love whichever one is chosen but I do have my heart set on one of them and I'm sure you can guess which one.

I write long posts and maybe it's silly but I've lived and breathed this logo for 4 months and this property matters to me and I want to help make it very significant And I'm excited to be able to be a part of a new beginning with old friends.

Anybody care to wager on the odds? You all will have been a part of the outcome and I think that that's perfect.

❤️

03/13/2025

02/24/2025

On February 4th we asked the community to share their thoughts and ideas about the new logo that will soon represent us.. I posted 4 options and the feedback was really exciting. When I started designing the logos, Joe had really been determined to do a full-blown modernization and going in a direction that felt more attributed to HIM and that's understandable. The property and building date back to 1962 but he's only owned it for a few years and it's natural that he'd want to make it "his". His ideas and excitement over the project were very grand and he envisioned neon and LED signs and I was the exact opposite. He's all cool blues and I wanted fire.

Strangely enough, though, we also had polarizing viewpoints of the original Westerly logo and sign, even the colors. Joe loves them and I absolutely hated everything about them. I hated the font. I hated the colors. I hated the symbols. I just could not wait to scrap it all. So, it's weird that as he would sketch ideas for me to design from, his examples were so different, not just from the originals but all the way across the board. He wanted to include everything and would get so excited that every idea was different from the last. For me, the challenge of balancing old and new was important because although I want it to represent Joe, I also wanted it to still be the Westerly.

But that god-awful font.

The seafoam green.

The asterisks. For no reason, why are there asterisks?

So I started fairly simple and tried to keep it minimalist and when we posted the examples there was an overwhelming response from all of you who wanted the retro feel and the origins more prominently reflected. I was really really surprised and I read each and every comment across every platform where it had been shared and I started taking some notes and then I got out the laptop and got to work.

I'm hoping that these better encompass the spirit of the Westerly. I tried very hard to modernize retro, a polarizing and challenging objective that maybe makes no sense but it makes perfect sense to me and I hope I pulled it off. I also wanted to not just represent Joe or the historical property but Ocean Shores as well. Because it is the very biggest part of this. I have a very clear favorite out of them and I actually cried when I made it because it felt so perfect to me.

Of course, Joe was delighted and got all extra and immediately suggested adding more eagles and can you put a salmon in the bear's mouth? I think he literally wanted to see every single detail of all of Ocean Shores in this little logo.

Thank you for the suggestions and your input. I absolutely love to hear your voices and I hope that one of these four will suit you guys and that you'll be able to See what I was trying to show in each design. Share your vote via comment or reacting in each pic... This is it. One of these will be on our signage and stamped onto letterheads, shirts, brochures, ads... And maybe it won't reach the celebrity status of, say, the golden arches or the two-tailed mermaid but whichever one you pick, it'll make a damn fine addition to a coffee mug.

Thank you for helping us out. We really really mean it.

02/09/2025

Hmu?