27 Mar 5 Proven Tips to Successfully Stage Your Home with Inviting Warmth!
Happy Spring friends! This is the 3rd, and final post, about the 2019 Austin Modern Home Tour produced every year by Modern Architecture + Design Society. I always love the Modern Home Tour and come away incredibly inspired!
Please be sure to check out the blog for Part I: "Mad About Mid-Century! 5 Reasons you'll Love..." HERE and Part 2: "10 Powerful Pillow Goddess Picks...to Modernize Your Home" HERE to get the full scope of the entire tour and my tips, as there were 12 beautiful and diverse homes AND an entire Mid-Century Modern Village, Starlight Village Homes filled with incredible modern furniture by a new local Austin store, Modern Redux.
I'm excited today to share with you this week
16 Nov It’s Here! The Pillow Goddess 2018 Holiday Luxury Gift List!
Drum roll please...... Just in time for the holiday season, we present our 2nd Annual The Pillow Goddess 2018 Holiday Luxury Gift List!
First debuted last year to much acclaim, The Pillow Goddess 2018 Holiday Luxury Gift List features an assortment of hand-selected gifts (some one-of-a-kind) for those special family and
07 Mar Pucker Up With Jewel Tones – 6 Interior Styling Tips!
Whether in runway fashion or fashion for the home, it's time to pucker up with jewel tones! Jewel tones like bold reds, greens, blues, purples and golds, have a way of holding their own through any season. I couldn't resist this provocative Instagram image above (via @lo_specchio) with Pantone's Color of the Year, Ultra Violet. Find out how you can add rich color
18 Oct 5 Tips for Letting A Statement Piece Speak for Itself!
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KOKET Showroom (G-6051 Salon at Market Square) at High Point Market, Oct 14 - 18, in High Point, North Carolina. Photography by KOKET.[/caption]
"Love Happens", as I've learned first hand through luxury brand KOKET with their dramatic lifestyle "Statement Pieces". And "Love Happened" in Chicago at BOLD Summit when KOKET's founder Janet Morais
09 Dec You’re Invited to Deborah Main Designs’ Studio for Holiday Cheer!
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Friends, Vintage French trim, textile pillow art, vintage designer scarf pillows, Kumi Jewelry (by my daughter Qin) & more![/caption]
Cozy fire and hot toddies await you this Saturday at my EXTENDED Holiday Open Studio & Sample Sale, 12 - 7 p.m. I know....I know...you Northerners are looking at us as woosies, but anything below 60 and I've got a scarf on...seriously!! Here I am going out last night to a couple local events with my new black Lambsy knitted by fashion designer Kristine Rodriguez of RESPONSIVE TEXTILES. And my neck surely stayed warm!
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Me snuggled into my Lambsy Muff knitted by RESPONSIVE TEXTILES.[/caption]
THANK YOU to
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!
29 Jul Friday Flowers & Trim – Artists Interpret Red Exhibition
Well, I haven't looked at the news today, but so far, I've not been able to do Friday's Flowers & Trim for 3 weeks now due to terrorists attacks. I'm praying there was not one today (as I have some happy and sad news to share on the creative front) and my thought's continue to be with all those families whose lives have changed forever.
So, today I'm trying to get back to some normalcy with my weekly summer posts. This Friday's Flowers & Trim is RED!! And there's an extra special reason why it's RED.
20 May Deborah Main Pillow Fight Not Just for Sleepovers
Get your throw pillows ready....it's time for a Pillow Fight!!
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Photography by, with permission from, Gregg Cestaro.[/caption]
And we really had one ya'll!! In 2011, Deborah Main Designs pulled out all the stops at our last Austin Fashion Week event at 1020 Glass Art & Decor, called a "Pillow Party at The Pillow Glass Lounge". It was very cool, I must say so myself! With such great memories, well, I thought this photo above was very apprepro for this week's upcoming #PillowFight.
Now tell me honestly, do you ever get frustrated trying to arrange your decorative pillows? Do you sometimes feel like throwing a pillow at your husband because he said the wrong thing, or, as found of D' Coop Media, Brandon Smith, reminded me, re-enact the hilarious stabbing scene from "Along Comes Polly"? Well don't worry, as we have all been there. Here's your chance to literally throw your grievances on the bed and take it out on your pillows. Just please leave the knife in the kitchen.
Come help us duke it out this Thursday, May 22nd, at 3 PM CST (1 PM PST, 4 PM EST) on Twitter, as I partake as guest host, on Brandon Smith's #DesignLux chat's "Pillow Fight".
That's right, the Pillow Goddess, moi, is in the hot seat!
14 Mar Deborah Main Meets Thomas O’Brien at Dallas Market
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Thomas O'Brien and I at the #SneakPeek blogger event at Dallas Market Center.[/caption]
One of the highlights for me and Deborah Main Designs at the #SneakPeek at Dallas Market in January (Yup, I still have a couple more posts of inspiration from just that one single day!) was having the opportunity to meet and hear Thomas O'Brien speak. Not having a background in design, I honestly didn't know who he was. I really enjoyed hearing him speak, seeing his slide show, and learning about his NYC store. Since going to Dallas was my first time attending market as a blogger, I was very keen on learning more and listening to what he had to say. I was definitely intrigued!
