I know the I phone photos are not the best but I need some sort of visual in order to blog!

For those of you who don't know, Douglas and I have run our wholesale company, Motel Deluxe, together for almost 14 years now. This past fall we decided that the shops needed me full time and that I would be pulling back from my duties at Motel to focus on Cursive. Well, if you know anything about wholesale companies you know that trade shows are a huge part of the business, and this season is the first that I am not working in the booth! It was kinda weird not to have the interaction with our great customers that I have worked with and talked to for so many years but it has been wonderful to be able to focus on the buy for the shops... each shop is so different in temperament and each of our little monsters needs to be fed differently in order for them to grow...
I'll fill you in on the new collections later this week.

Common thread...

So I was going to post this yesterday but got caught up in the business of running a business and forgot. Anyway, as it would happen we had an incident of shoplifting today and guess what she stole...? Yes, the thread in the picture! It was such an interesting thing to steal, mini spools of vintage thread, not exactly a classic shoplifting item, although I do understand it's sparkly allure!
One can see such incidents one of two ways, either it's a slap in the face and it ruins your day or you can take in stride and roll with the punches. Today I turned the other cheek and seemed to see the humanness in it all... boy, am I going soft?

Love is in the air...

I know I've been out of the blogging loop lately but sometimes you just don't have anything to say...
This morning I came into the shop after not being here for 4 days and became overwhelmed by my wonderful staff. The shop was exactly the way it should be. I feel so lucky to have found great, talented and motivated people to share the shops with! Of course this isn't a new thing , from the first day of opening the ABC shop almost 5 years ago I have had the pleasure of being supported by wonderful people who LOVE the shops as much as I do.
I feel lucky!

One of my favorite things about living in New York is viewing the Bergdorf Goodman windows, especially at the Holidays. They are always so well crafted and imaginative , I would love to work in that craft room. Who else could make polar bears out of white fringe and crystals: Nanook of the North, sign me up!

This is one of the side windows so let me tell you the 5th Ave windows are AMAZING, I'll try and get a few more shots this week.

Oh and a little bit of gossip; my friend Heath and I went to see A Single Man at the Paris theatre and who was there standing in line but Carolina Herrera, she looked amazing and not at all fussy or pulled. See we are all just people!

So I am back into a blogging frame of mind, so here we go.

Yesterday we received a new order of beautiful glass and we promptly remerched the center table. One of the fantastic pieces is a contour dish, it made THE most wonderful display for a collection of metallic leather travel accessories. Sometimes everything just comes together in the most amazingly easy way and I love my job.

I know it's been quite a while since I have added to the blog but here we go again.

The pictures of the front window never come out looking that good but here is the Holiday window that went in last Tuesday.

Elena, who works at GCT, came up with the witty verse and it works wonderfully. I'll try and get better pictures but you get the gist.

Sorry for the long delay in writing. Both of our moms visited this fall and I fell behind in my everyday life. Retail is never boring! If it's not one thing it's 40 thousand other things. Sometimes there is not enough time in the day to do everything that needs my eyeballs.
Anyway, Q4 is here and about to bust out. The theme is going to be black and white, because, well I that's the mood I am in... there is more white than black but the contrast should be striking especially at ABC were we just hung more amazing black and gold fixtures by Tom Dixon. These combined with the antiqued silver garlands streaming down from the ceiling should be quite something. Stop by and check it out next week.