26 Nov Celebrate Small Business Saturday in Style – SHOP SMALL with a Milli Starr Hat!

Today’s a very special day that in the USA we celebrate and support small businesses everywhere, brick and mortar AND online, by shopping for our holiday gifts TODAY, Saturday, November 27, 2016, on SMALL BUSINESS SATURDAY. So put on your shopping shoes and get out there and support your local businesses!

It’s not the Amazons and Walmarts of the world that keep us going, it’s the Mom & Pop shops that have been around for generations working hard to stay in business. It’s the rise of the younger generation from Austin to Brooklyn in the Maker Movement. It is EVERY artisan, including yours truly at Deborah Main Designs, that makes everything by hand just for you! So go out and celebrate them today by shopping small, shopping local.

I know many of them in Austin, but one stands out in particular, my dear friend and milliner Laura Del Villaggio of Milli Starr.  She makes the most gorgeous hats in all shapes and sizes. Laura hand blocks each hat herself and shapes it into a fedora or a cloche and many more styles, in the most amazing colors with all the trimmings.

Milli Starr debuts her Winter/Holiday 16 collection today, on Small Business Saturday, with a special Trunk Show, at one of my favorite designer boutiques, Spring Frost. Spring is another wonderful small business, so by attending Laura’s trunk show you’ll be supporting TWO local businesses. Click HERE for all the details on her event today.

Loden green hat by Milli Starr available in her Winter/Holiday 16 Collection at Spring Frost. Trunk show today, Saturday, 26th, 11 – 5 p.m.

And just in case you’re wondering, my wonderful customers and supporters, what Small Business Saturday treat I have in store for you, please check out the image below and be sure to shop my NEW online store using the code DMD40 (at check out) for 40% off your purchase.

It is time to get in the holiday shopping spirit, and heirloom-quality pillow art makes for great gifts that everyone can love and use in their home.  A pop of color and texture with a Deborah Main original pillow is sure to please all your family and friends! Now remember, this promotional code is ONLY good for 24 hours on Small Business Saturday.

You can also shop for my work at another local holiday event supporting VSA Texas. Meet the artists on Small Business Saturday and shop for handmade artisan gifts for the holidays through Dec 23rd at the Circle of Gifting VSA Holiday Art & Gift Show.

So what are you waiting for? Shop small, shop local and support #smallbizsat TODAY! And be sure to sign up for my Fall/Winter newsletter here to get all the details of my upcoming Holiday Open Studio Saturday, December 3rd, from 12 noon to 7 p.m. See you today and next weekend, XO PG