If you love modern art – particularly the street art variety – of which my husband is a huge fan, you must go see the new documentary (or perhaps a mockumentary) of Britain's most famous and elusive street artist Banksy.
The film chronicles the history of street arts emergence and eventual acceptance as “the real thing” through the video camera of an eccentric Frenchman who may or may not be a real person.
Exit Through The Gift Shop was a huge unexpected hit at the Sundance Film Festival and it is building a cult following in limited release across the US.
It gives a great insight into the artistic process while at the same time showing how commercial the world of art can be. It is a “do not miss” even if modern art isn’t your thing.
I’ve been missing in action here in blogland but I have a good excuse. I was working day and night to get ready for the official launch of The Jackie Von Tobel Collection, my new line of fabrics and pillows, at the Las Vegas World Market.
My collection will be available year round in the Postcards Home Showroom in building A suite 119. Craig and Donna the co-owners of the beautiful showroom have been absolutely wonderful and helped me get everything ready for the debut. Thanks guys!
We had a great launch party and I was thrilled to have some great friends, blogging buddies and fellow designers from all over the country attend.
We introduced some new patterns and colorways including the zebra stripe in coffee and the new Gypsy Flower in coffee.
Here are a few patterns in our cotton candy colorway.
I was floored to see Suzanne Kasler stroll into the showroom and had a nice chat with her. She is definitely one of my favorite designers and such a gracious lady.
Ronda Carmen and her husband made it to my launch party along with Brad Ford and the great gals from Editor at Large, Julia Noran and Sophie Donalson.
My friend and fellow blogger Tobi Fairley came by with her lovely mother.
I also had the pleasure of speaking on a panel discussion on New Media at market with Tobi, Brad, and Ronda. It was moderated by Julia Noran and Sophie Donalson of Editor at Large.
It was a fun panel with loads of tips on how to make social media work to promote and grow your business.
We had a great group in attendance and I had the opportunity to meet a reader of my blog and her sister, in town all the way from the Virgin Islands!
If you are in Las Vegas I hope you will stop by the fabulous World Market Center and visit my showroom. We’d love to see you!
I really have no good excuse. You can call it bloggers block – a summer slump – or real life takes over – whatever it was I just couldn’t get up the energy to blog. It’s been a crazy couple of months here and I am hoping to get back on track now before my poor blog evaporates into the universe.
I hope you are all having a fantastically fun summer. I have so many great things coming up and lots of info to share with you so I hope you’ll forgive my playing hooky for the past couple of months.
I’m so happy to be able to share that I have just signed a new contract with my fabulous publisher Gibbs Smith for two new books which will be part of my Design Directory series.
Can you guess what the first one will be about?
More to follow soon……………………………………………………………………………………….
The fabulous Thom Felicia and I in New York at a Withit presentation
I have really had a crazy year so far in 2010 with what seems to be non-stop travel and work. I love it but after my recent trip to New York I have felt particularly burnt out! Hence my lack of posting – sorry.
One of my favorite blogging buddies Michelle Morlan of Schematic Life and I at SURTEX in New York
I was in New York for several events. First was the Surtex show which is a tradeshow for surface and textile designers. It is run in conjunction with the Stationary show which is huge and full of talent! Second was the ICFF show – The International Contemporary Furnishings Fair, and it was great. So much fun new product and innovation! Very inspirational.
Valorie, Angelica, Me
My friend Maybelline Te of Snug Furniture, Angelica, myself, Maybelline’s friend
I met my sister Valorie and my daughter Angelica in New York and they went to some of the great events around town with me. A highlight was the opening night party for ICFF which was held in the outdoor atrium and sculpture gallery. It was a fun and lively event attended by a great group of creative people. We had a great time.
The Withit ladies at dinner
Also going on in town that week was the Withit design tour. Withit stands for Women in the Home Furnishings Industry Today and it is a fabulous group of entrepreneurial women who have made their mark in our industry. From company CEO’s to authors and designers the group is filled with women who are making a difference in their perspective fields. I was absolutely energized by all of them and can’t wait to meet more members.
Thom Felicia in action.
Part of the Withit group enjoying some bubbly at Safavieh
I’m off to Laguna Beach this weekend with my hubby for some badly needed R & R and then it’s back home and back to work.
Hope you all enjoy your holiday weekend and take time to relax and revitalize! See you next week.
As you can tell my blog is getting a much needed face lift -after all we are getting up there in years!
It's a difficult process and one wrong move could ruin it forever - so parden the mess while we tweak it to get it just right. I promise to try not to go too far! Triple D's might be a bit much - maybe I'll upgrade to just a single D cup with some serious lipo in the side.
I’m just to tired to write an intelligent post tonight so I thought I would share some of the new images I have filed in my “Peacock Obsession” file – enjoy!
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The Withit ladies at dinner 
