Bring a Little Bling into Your Life!

At the recent Las Vegas show, I had such a delightful time meeting some of the brilliant designers in our showroom! I have already done a post on my friend Jackie Von Tobel and her beautiful new line of textiles, so I thought I would introduce you to a few of the others I was so fortunate to befriend! I am so pleased to introduce Bree Cox and her astonishing line of upholstery tacks. The collection is appropriately called Diamond Head. Bree not only has model good looks, but she also practices meditation everyday and has for twenty years! You can tell, she is simply radiant with positive and creative energy. As an interior designer, she had an epiphany while in Hawaii in a spa... well, I can't tell you the whole story here, but best to show the results of this inspirational moment. She did come up with the perfect name in the shower the next day "isn't that where all the good ideas originate" she says! Of course, thinking of a hike on that famous Hawaiian landmark it came to her as another Divine gift.

After a year of research and incredible hard work, she launched her company and has even been issued a US Trademark. Her search led her to Europe where she worked with her manufacturer to create the perfect process to incorporate genuine crystals and stones into upholstery tacks! It had to be the power of her positive energy and thinking that led her to this manufacturer as they worked together to devise an ingenious way to work with such seemingly fragile things such as crystals, for something that is usually pounded in with a hammer like tool! I will let you visit her web site for all of the details. The uses for these are endless and we all know the imagination is boundless! Visit this website at Diamond Head Interchangeable Upholstery Tack - www.diamondheadut.com

Fantastic!

We have the greatest showroom in the mart, I think! Right on the first floor, next to an excellent restaurant - nobody can pass it up once they walk by! This is all due to the multi-talented owners/designers - Craig Dye and Donna Johnson. Their ability to curate, accessorize and decorate is amazing. Now, if I can just get them to my house;-) Here are a few more shots of the showroom before I have to run...

It's Showtime!

If you haven't made plans to come to the Las Vegas show yet, there's still time! This will be the biggest and best with more accessories and new vendors than ever. I will post just a few pictures here as time is running out, but I will try to post more during the week. These were taken during set-up, so now the showroom Postcards Home is even more beautiful! You will see my bedding, of course - but I have added a brand new style of curtain, as well. Notice the extremely deep pencil pleated curtains, one with ruffle and one without. We have decided to double the size of the ruffle and I am really excited about these! I am so happy to be showing with my friend the very talented Jackie Von Tobel! She is debuting her line of gorgeous fabrics. There are many other well known and plenty of brand new vendors, as well - so come on and join us for the fun!

Jackie Von Tobel

What fun to find out that one of my favorite authors and designers lives right here in my city! Even more fun was actually getting together with her recently for lunch and learning more about her exciting career. Jackie Von Tobel has been in the design world for over twenty years, it was amazing how much we had in common from sewing at a very young age to testing out various areas of the design industry before settling on our passions.

She has done such various things as making wedding dresses, designing her own line of costume jewelry, running a successful business painting murals and decorative painting - to a full career as an interior designer. Then she became an author! Her first book The Design Directory of Window Treatments published by Gibbs Smith, is an incredible design reference book that should be in every designer/design lovers library. Now she has another brilliant book, one that just called out to me - The Design Directory of Bedding. This is not just any book, it is 530 pages filled with knowledge, resources and my favorite - thousands of color hand illustrations by Jackie herself! It even comes with a CD-Rom with all of the illustrations in black and white line drawings, what more could you ask for?

The answer to that question is - a gorgeous new fabric collection by Jackie! How amazing is this woman? I don't want to spoil all of the fun of you finding out for yourself. I will post just a few teaser pictures and you can see for yourself why I am so excited! Her full website will be up soon, so please check out her blog in the meantime.