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Part II: Tess Casey’s studio, Aisling Flowers, and a Floral Design Workshop. As mentioned in Part I: Deborah Main Inspired by Flower Market with Tess Casey, the first day of #BlogTourNYC with Tess Casey was all arranged by our generous sponsor West Edge Design Fair. Thank you!!! Tess has this -
Well, hello world!! It’s great to be back home in Austin, Texas after a whirlwind of a #BlogTourNYC trip, but I am confident that I can speak for all my fellow bloggers: #BlogTourNYC was THE most enriching experience ever! We can’t believe it’s over! We miss everyone! AND, we wish -
Gorgeous display at Bunny Williams store Treillage New York. Photo by Deborah Main, 2014. WOW!!! What a whirlwind of a tour of NYC and all the fabulous design there!! I can’t even begin to describe how exciting it was, all that I learned, all the wonderful inspiration, and just how -
“Zoho CRM makes a soft landing – on luxury pillows! One product that can work for diverse businesses: here’s the story” Zoho, 2014. We are so proud to be featured as one of Zoho’s small business #SuccessStories!! We love using Zoho CRM and recommend it highly to keep the back -
Hey everyone! #BlogTourNYC is here THIS week: Tuesday March 18 – Saturday March 22. But the posts and energy from all the wonderful design karma will last for months….I can assure you of that!! I am so looking forward to meeting everyone at Modenus, all the bloggers, our sponsors, media -
This is a test from my phone to see if I can write a blog post and post it right away. Cause I want to be able to do little posts from NYC for y’all next week. Getting soooo excited about #BlogTourNYC I can hardly stand it!!! This tour is -
Thomas O’Brien and I at the #SneakPeek blogger event at Dallas Market Center. 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 -
In less than one week, I’ll be in New York City at my very first Modenus Blog Tour!! Excited is an understatement. Ecstatic is more accurate!!! At the start of 2014, just one week after venturing out of my pillow-land comfort zone in January, I went to my very first -
A couple weeks ago I attended a “Woman’s Night Out” event hosted by BiGAUSTIN, called WOW1000. The evening was a fabulous success! I was one of six women-owned, small businesses in Austin asked to participate in this event as a vendor and supporter…and all I have to say from attending -
Photography by, with permission from, Modernism Week. Modernism Week, a non-profit organization with their signature design event in February, is happening RIGHT NOW in Palm Springs, California! This year it is being held February 13th-23rd at the Hilton Palm Springs. The event occurs on an annual basis to celebrate -
I’m still high in the clouds with excitement over receiving a Twtter direct message a few weeks ago, from Veronika Miller of Modenus, inviting me to the #BlogTourNYC March 18 -22, 2014. In fact, my adrenalin was so pumped up I couldn’t even think straight and I had to email -
Luxury brands take notice!! We at Deborah Main Designs are just head over heels in love with this new online luxury magazine that debuted last week: The Twenty Six. It is THE best new luxury magazine in the 21st century and is forging a new path on how luxury brands -
#SneakPeek at Dallas Market center started out here at Design Finds where our group perused new design offerings full of color. Photo by Deborah Main. As everyone knows, I LOVE color!! All you have to do is look at our brand new website, Deborah Main Designs, and it sums up -
The talented designers and bloggers of #SneakPeek2014 at #DallasMarket. Wonderful tote bags courtesy of Surya Showroom. Last weekend I had the time of my life in Dallas: Deborah Main Designs, (aka The Pillow Goddess) attended my very first blogger event: Sneak Peek 2014! But before we get to that I -
High Design is the “Juried” section at AltantasMart, where beautiful new products debut, and where we debuted Deborah Main luxury decorative pillows in 2013. Happy New Year everyone! It’s finally time for some reflection on 2013. As mentioned in my previous blog (in addition to the fact it’s taken me -
Happy New Year! I’ve been thinking all week about what I was going to write. Many new year posts have come and gone. Lot’s of reports on 2013, new year resolutions, new year “words”, great photos, etc. They all have been wonderful and inspiring. In fact, I’ve chosen my word: -
I’m hanging a beautiful red silk brocade ornament that my daughter made me for Christmas. She made it from the fabric she used to design, sew and model a dress for the Stitch Lab fashion show. At Deborah Main Designs studio in Austin, Texas, a cold front blew in last -
Only SIX more days until Christmas!! Yikes!!I I haven’t even started shopping… But so happy today because I finally finished ALL my deadlines (and school’s out!), including a 48-hour rush order for a client of Interior Design Gallery in time for for the client’s holiday party tomorrow night. Challenging, but -
This is a very spontaneous post…and a very unedited one at that. It’s not a glamorous holiday post by Deborah Main Designs on how to decorate your tree (sorry to disappoint). No, there are plenty of fabulous interior designers that are doing an all out job with that! (But do -
Have you ever dreamed of driving a Rolls Royce? Or hanging out in the back seat with a Deborah Main luxury pillow? Well how about the new Rolls Royce Wraith – “Wraith is a car for the curious, the confident and the bold….a car that pushes the boundaries of design -
Hello everyone. With two fall trunk shows Deborah Main Designs studio has been hopping!! Oh, and not to mention, that we’ll soon be launching our new website which we’re SUPER excited about. So thank you for being patient with a few absent blog posts. We’ll get back on it by -
Not having our own Deborah Main Designs brick and mortar, I am so fortunate to be part of a gorgeous well-established showroom in Austin to showcase all of our luxury decorative pillows in one place, Interior Design Gallery (IDG). You’ve heard me speak of them before and you’ll hear more, -
A skeleton window display along South Congress Avenue, Austin, Texas. We at Deborah Main Designs want to wish you a frightful Happy Halloween!! By now, kiddos have tricked and treated around the block and are laying out their candy to see the loot. Probably lining them all up by type -
NOTE: This blog post was written in Fall of 2013 to introduce you to the NEW design duo, CMJS Creativ. A lot of excitement has happened in two years! Starting the week of April 7, 2015, WATCH for NEW INTERVIEWS with Carisa Marie and John Strauss about 2015 HighPoint Market -
“Team Work Makes the Dream Work” is the theme of Deborah Main Designs’ blog post today about two talented designers, Carisa Marie and John Strauss, debuting their collaborative works of art in John Strauss Showroom at High Point Market (#hpmkt) in North Carolina. High Point, the largest furniture show in -
The Lamar Boulevard Bridge, before THIRST project installed, Austin, Texas, 2013. If I could make a pillow from wood I would. I love wood that much. I love everything about wood from the fibers, natural grain, colors of the wood, dead wood, driftwood, textures of the bark, all the way -
Come shop with Deborah Main Designs in Haddonfield, New Jersey tonight! Graphic by, with permission from, Pearl Clutch. Boy, do I wish I lived in Haddonfield, New Jersey today!! Haddonfield is a great shopping destination with a variety of stores, but for us at Deborah Main Designs, one special boutique, -
It’s so unusual for me to think about Christmas and the holidays in September when it’s still 97 degrees out! But we debuted our brand new holiday ornament collection in Atlanta in July at the International Gift & Home Furnishings show, so it’s kind of hard NOT to talk about -
Boy, we’re having fun now!! We’re starting to make our own little home videos to share with you, our readers, the juicy details about our studio. (See UnZipped video clip below). Just because we’ve been in business since 2004, doesn’t mean everyone knows exactly what Deborah Main Designs does! And -
I know, you’re saying, “Gee, it’s not even Halloween, and she’s already talking about Christmas!!” Well yes, it IS still summer here in Austin, but I can just sense that cool crisp fall breeze headed this way. And, I’m I REALLY excited about our new product debut, our original “Les
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I voted early for the very first time. 👍
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David and I are so happy to cast our votes to save our democracy and preserve the Constitution.
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Early voting ends Friday here in Austin!! Get out and vote please!! 🇺🇲🇺🇲🇺🇲
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#wellnesswednesday #vote #voting #votingrights #democracy #theconstitution #freedom #usa #womensrights #smallbusiness #thepillowgoddess
Do you have an Invisible Disability?
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This week is @invisibledisabilities Week taking place now through Oct 26th.
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An invisible disability is simple - you can`t see it! 👀
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It includes chronic diseases and conditions that significantly impair normal daily activities. Like the disease I have, Myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS).
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This week I want to help bring awareness to friends and colleagues who may not know that I, and millions others, have an invisible disease. Cause we look normal on the outside. 🤗
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Scroll through these photos to see what a bad day looks like and how lucky I am to have good days. (And how drab my bedroom was before I transformed it in the @oneroomchallenge 💙)
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Also, see last Oct with friends @highpointmarket. This Oct I`m in a serious relapse after fun summer travels w/David in Italy 🇮🇹
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What you don`t see is that because of ME/CFS I lie in bed every day. Not to sleep, but to rest for hours, or work from bed, or recover from an activity, or a months long relapse.
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My blood pressure drops when I sit or stand and brings a host of symptoms that I cannot control. The ONLY way to alleviate my symptoms is to rest. No reading. No music. No talking, etc.
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The most important things to learn this week are -
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▶️ Never make assumptions about anyone`s abilities.
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▶️ People with disabilities (visible or not) should never have to live with barriers or judgement.
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▶️ Show grace, kindness, and understanding. (I`ve been blessed my family + friends, like you, do!)
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▶️ Never judge anyone who uses a Handicap Sticker cause you can`t see their disability.
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I know some who follow me here have invisible disabilities too and most of my colleagues do not know I live with ME/CFS.
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If you see someone struggling with a word cause of brain fog that day, or they need other help, remember they might have an invisible disability too.
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See Stories for more people with invisible disabilities. Give them a ♥️. Believe and support them!
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As always, thank you for your love and support. XO♥️
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#invisibleillness #invisibledisabilitiesweek #atx #mecfs #design #wellnesswednesday #MillionsMissing #interiordesigners #thepillowgoddess
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