January 15, 2011

So much progress was made yesterday in the quest for amazing stuff.  Didn’t take a ton of pictures but I am super excited about the new companies I found.  Friday night was my annual dinner with the girls.  A bunch of us from a retail blog I belong to go out and have dinner.  It […]

January 14, 2011

Not much time to post about all the details today.  I need to get to the Mart.  However here is a few things I saw yesterday.   This is beautiful new stuff from Wendy Addison’s collection for Midwest.  I also saw lots of new from Fringe and tokyo milk.  I did do some shopping for Christmas […]

October 24, 2010

Before we embarked on our day, Michele and I went on a scouting trip to make the final list of stops.  Of course before that I did what anyone would do and scouted the internet. I went to the website for High Hand Nursery. The pictures were lovely but I had been fooled by pictures before […]

October 21, 2010

Welcome to Horton Farm. A quick trip down the road from Auburn to Loomis lies the type of place you see in a documentary that seems to move at a different pace than most. In reality, I can only imagine that it is just as busy as any other. The farm is run by Doug […]

October 19, 2010

Sunday was our first road trip. More than 30 of us jumped on an American Stage Bus and road in pure luxury to Auburn, CA.  We took this mini adventure because one of my customers, a lovely lady by the name of Michele Abrate suggested it to me.  She is not only a world traveler […]

April 19, 2010

Today I started really trying to figure out when to take a week away from Daisy’s for a family vacation.  Well sometimes I think of Daisy’s as my summer vacation home.  OK, how ridiculous is it to think of your work place as your vacation home? Let’s think about it though, I truly feel I […]