Team Company C will represent at this year's Rock-n-Race in support of Concord Hospital Payson Center for Cancer Care! http://t.co/I6OHKDJb
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Loved seeing you at #Brimfield @kmidcambridge! Hope you found lots of great treasures!!!
12:12 AM May 16th
New conversation: Great finds at #brimfield!: We’re back after a fun few days in #brimfield for the 2012 Tweetup... http://t.co/RKaQ2Ztn
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Natural Home & Garden Magazine May/June 2012
A big thanks to Natural Home & Garden Magazine for including Company C’s Cyprus Aqua rug in its May/June issue. The article entitled, “A Healthier Home: Furnishings and Decor to Reduce Indoor Air Pollution” by Ginevra Holtkamp can be found here.
Company C joined GoodWeave in 2005 as part of its mission to give back to the weaving communities in India. By donating a percentage of each tufted rug sold, we help support families like Monish’s. Twelve-year-old Monish used to watch with disappointment as his friends left for school. With four siblings and the government school far from his village in Varanasi, Monish’s father could not afford his eldest son’s education. This all changed when GoodWeave launched Project Muskan (meaning “smile” in Hindi).
Children often stay at home to help their parents on the looms because classrooms are literally out of reach due to their remote location as well as the prohibitive cost. In 2010, in partnership with the Human Welfare Association and The Global Fund for Children, GoodWeave was able to reach Monish and over 200 children like him. They are now enrolled in non-formal education centers, which offer an accessible and accelerated learning program for kids from impoverished and illiterate weaving communities.
These non-formal education centers are just one of the effective interventions that GoodWeave has spearheaded over the years along the carpet belt of South Asia. GoodWeave provides an array of social programs, from rescue, rehabilitation and education of child laborers to mobile health clinics, day care services and adult education for weavers.
In 2011, GoodWeave launched the second phase of Project Muskan and as a result, successfully enrolled 1,100 children in these non-formal education centers. Monish is no longer disappointed: “Now when I am studying, I feel confident and happy.” To read more stories of children whose lives have been transformed by GoodWeave, click here.
About GoodWeave
GoodWeave is an international non-governmental organization working to end child labor in the handmade rug industry and offer educational opportunities to children in weaving communities. The GoodWeave certification label is issued to rug manufacturers that adhere to the GoodWeave standard, agree to its independent verification and voluntarily join as licensees. For more information on GoodWeave, please visit www.goodweave.org.
Company C Sponsor of #Brimfield Tweet Up on May 10th – May 11th
A bi-annual event merging
the new in social media and the old in antiques
at the Brimfield Antique Show.
#Brimfield brings interior designers, decorators, design bloggers and fashion & retail professionals to the Brimfield Antique Show under one umbrella for two full days.
The #Brimfield event held this past September brought together 120 interior designers/decorators and design bloggers.
The #Brimfield tent is a ‘home base’ for VIP registered attendees, a place where guests can relax and regroup before heading back out to do MORE antique and vintage shopping. On shopping breaks, our guests can relax and enjoy chair massages, wine, cocktails and snacks, get connected with our WiFi service and laptop/phone charging stations, find inspiration in our sponsors’ product displays, and, last but not least, socialize and network with a fabulous group of like-minded people!
We are thrilled to have Company C join co-lead sponsor, Benjamin Moore, at #Brimfield again this May. Two colorful brands under one tent at Brimfield, surrounded by miles of antiques…What could possibly be better?
Cynthia Bogart of The Daily Basics and I invite you to join us this May at #Brimfield. We HOPE to see you there with our friends at Company C!
Sign up today at http://brimfieldtweetup.blogspot.com/
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Guest blog post by Gretchen Aubuchon, Founder and Editor in Chief of Fashion + Decor and Co-Founder of the #Brimfield Tweet Up.
About Fashion + Decor
Style your home…Style yourself. Fashion + Decor is the web’s only dedicated space for exploring the intersection between fashion and interior design. Discover how trends make their way from the fashion runways straight into your home. The StylePair collection at new website www.fashiondecor.com launches April 2012!
About The Daily Basics
Cynthia Bogart, Founder and Editor-in-Chief of The Daily Basics and Co-Founder of the #Brimfield Tweet Up. The Daily Basics is a community built of lifestyle bloggers in the fields of Home & Garden, Travel & Living, Food & Drink, Body & Fashion and Arts & Literature. It is a place where ANYONE can come to find all of those wonderful articles you loved reading about in your magazines but can find them now in one place online instead.
This month’s Stylesight Newsletter features an article about key colors of 2012–#Sky Shades below.
We especially love adding all shades of blues to our spring and summer designs.
Click here to view inspiration behind our Spring 2012 Coastal Blues Collection or our Blue Inspiration Rooms.
Our Spectrum Clover rug creates a fresh base for a den/guest room on pages 12 – 15.
See more Company C features on our Press Page.
One of the fun and crazy times of year is our photo shoot! After months of designing, planning, shopping for accessories and scouting locations, the day arrives when we have to bring it all together for the shoot.
I thought it would be fun to share some of the before and after shots from our Spring ’12 shoot. Our location was a beautiful home on the seacoast in Rye, NH. We were so lucky the weather held out for us. Tropical Storm Irene arrived the day after we finished!
This is one of my favorite shots. Our stylist, Karin Lidbeck, transformed our 200-year-old colonial entryway into one typically found in a tropical paradise!
I loved planning the shot for our Leopard Azalea rug—going a little crazy with Pink & Green! We chose the new barn out in the apple orchard. It had a large, casual space with great light and our goal was to dress it up a bit with our “Classic & Sexy” Leopard collection!
We took some of our bedding shots in the house where the rooms were smaller, but filled with light and charm—enough to create a coastal feeling with our Sanibel quilt.
Our photo shoots are a ton of work—with everyone unpacking, repacking and moving heavy furniture. But we do make some time for fun! For one of our cover shots, Maggie and Julie—two of our designers—worked tirelessly cutting up strips of our printed fabrics and stapled them to the pergola in the back field. What crazy idea were we concocting? Why Maggie running through the fabrics of course—creating a carefree feeling of summer!
We just finished our Fall ’12 photo shoot so stay tuned for more fun!
Pink is for Love!
Fall in love with pink this season. Whether used as an accent color or the focal point of design, pink adds drama! We love using pink in our collections and are always inspired by the vibrant pink flowers in our gardens–from roses and peonies to azaleas and petunias. Pink pairs well with greens, yellows, oranges and blues. Mix it up and have fun.
Happy Valentines Day!
Captiva Rug Entryway
In Bloom Bedding
Leopard Azalea Living Room
Summer Brights Bed
It’s that time of year again and we’re revisiting our favorite contest! Each year we receive an outpouring of responses and we can’t wait to see what 2012 has in store. Like us on Facebook or follow us on Twitter and post your Colorful Living New Year’s Resolution!
Maybe your’re thinking about taking a photography class, running a marathon or simply adding some more colorful decor to your home.
Here’s the entry from our 2011 winner, Julie:
“My resolution started earlier than the New Year (December 27th), because I want it to be a lifestyle change! I set up a “Success Corner” in my bedroom that has inspirational quotes, photos of me from happy periods of my life, pictures of my baby boy and Joe Manganiello (LOL), owls because I love them, and other things to help motivate me to eat healthier, be more generous and kind, put other before myself, and try to make a difference in the world. “Some succeed because they are destined to; most succeed because they are determined to.” My motto for the year.”
What ever your resolution, let us know on Facebook or Twitter and you’ll be entered to win a 4’6 x 6’6 rug of your choice. You just never know, there may even be a runner prize (or two)!
Contest runs from Monday, December 26, 2011 to Sunday, January 15, 2012. So don’t delay, share your colorful resolution with us today!
One entry per person. Winner will be notified by Facebook message on Friday, January 20, 2012. Also check our blog for the winner announcement.
To get the colorful resolutions started, here are some of our other favorites from 2011!
“My resolution is to stay present to the moment and the day with which I’ve been blessed. I’m always planning way too far into the future. By paying attention to the here and now it will hopefully enhance my senses to all of the color in my world. My mantra: Be present today!”
“My New Year’s resolution is not to have to make New Year’s Resolutions any longer and to live a life without criticism, judgement and guilt. Live a and let live and accept people with their “imperfections” and they hopefully accept mine. To give without expecting back, to help by being supportive, and to accept that I can’t change others, but I can only change myself.”
“To take the advice of my 3-year-old, “Stop and look at the beautiful rainbow mommy.” I will be trying to live more in the moment in 2011!”
“In 2011 I will face my fears, work on my weaknesses, let my anxiety go, appreciate the things I have and work toward the things I want.”
“I resolve to try and live each day in purpose and joy.”
We can’t wait to hear what your colorful resolutions are for 2012!
Company C is a co-sponsor of the upcoming #brimfield Tweet Chat on September 8 and 9 in Brimfield, MA. Come Tweet with us!
Brimfield is the largest antique fair in the world and one of our favorite places to scour for timeless, amazing finds. We’ll be exploring the fields for our next rug, bedding and furniture design inspirations! Then we’ll be Tweeting our findings from the VIP tent.
Thanks to the great efforts of Gretchen Aubuchon of @gaubuchondesign and Cynthia Bogart of @thedailybasics for launching this fabulous event last May and continuing again this September. Gretchen even delivered her third child in the midst of the planning…an example of her endless passion for family, design and social media!
Tweeting with us will be Benjamin Moore, Traditional Home, Better Homes & Gardens, Brian Kelsey of Martha Stewart Radio and Kelley Moore–Lifestyle Expert and frequent contributor of The Today Show and The Nate Berkus Show. Along with over 150 fabulous design professionals and social media experts.
We’re thrilled to sponsor this fun Social Media extravaganza along with @benjamin_moore, @aubuchonhrdware and @pan_debalthazar and hope you come by to explore the fields for your own design inspiration. Join our Tweet Chat, you’ll find us @companyc and #brimfield!
Our antique find in Benjamin Moore’s Fashion Rose and Company C’s Gridlock & Gingko fabrics.
To learn more about #brimfield click here.
Walter just came home with a bag of Meyer Lemons and I couldn’t resist taking a photo with our Prima hand-painted napkins.
The shape really is of a typical lemon, but the color is more of an orange. The fragrance though is amazingly different–almost a flowery perfume!
Hmm what to make with these colorful treats? Any ideas?
