Decor Arts Now

My bags are packed and I am ready to go!!!  By late afternoon today, I will be at High Point Market and seeing the latest and greatest in the interior design world.  I can’t wait.

My trip is made possible by Hooker Furniture Company and a highlight of my Market experience will be touring their new showroom.  When I get back to New York next week, I know I will have plenty to write about.

In the meantime, I will be tweeting my adventures like crazy.  Follow me @DecorArtsNow.

I also will be pinning my finds both on a Pinterest Board I set up to showcase my finds at the Spring 2012 High Point Market, and on this board of blogger picks set up by my sponsor Hooker Furniture.  Be sure to follow me there as well.

This week I  have only one favorite online find:  Colette Bream on Etsy.  She sells the most charming items for kids and their rooms that I have seen lately.  And the imagery on her site is simply dreamy.

A site that features such a sweet little girl is so apropos this week, because I spent a good deal of time offline with a similar sweetie.

Somehow I found myself doing some last minute shopping for a First Holy Communion dress.  As a mother of 3 teenaged boys, it was the very last thing I expected to do, just days before I left for High Point Market.

But when I learned that the dress purchased for the youngest child (out of 5) and only daughter of a dear friend was dropping seed pearls like flies, I had to offer moral support.  You don’t need to be Catholic to know that a communion dress that falls apart in the garment bag two weeks before the big day, is a motherhood crisis of enormous magnitude.

The stars shined on us.  Somehow we got the money back on the first dress (battle royale–email me if you’re in Westchester and you want to know where NOT to go for a flower girl or communion dress).  AND we found a prettier one that fit perfectly.  Little Rosebud (her family nickname), looks adorable, don’t’ you think?

So I ask you….

Except for our Rosebud, all images from Colette Bream.