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• 02.23.11 

  Introducing the Thalia House!

  Thank you to Twig Interiors for their work on the Thalia House! The install was just completed this week. The Thalia House is a home for young women recovering from  eating disorders. It provides a supportive transition from inpatient or residential treatment to their home environment which is essential to prevent relapse.  Company C is very pleased to have been selected by Twig Interiors as a vendor on the project. We hope our pillows and rugs will help to brighten the days of the young women residing at the Thalia House. Here’s a clip from NBC News talking about the opening of the Thalia House:

  To learn more about the Thalia House, please visit www.thaliahouse.com.

  Twigs Interiors is a full-service design firm located in downtown Overland Park, Kansas. As a team of interior designers with a fresh and inspired style, Twigs Interiors specializes in both residential and commercial design in Kansas City and across the nation.

  Items used at Thalia House: Inspire pillow, Create pillow, Dream pillow, Toucan Turquoise pillow and Gabriella Kiwi pillow.

  

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• 01.28.11 

  GoodWeave’s One in a Million Campaign

  A member since 2005, Company C is proud to be part of GoodWeave USA. We support GoodWeave as it unveils One in a Million, the nonprofit’s new campaign to bring attention to its market-based solution to end child labor in the handmade rug industry. The campaign, whose flagship ad (seen below) appears in the February 2011 issue of dwell, made its official debut at the Atlanta International Area Rug Market January 13-16.

  

  The campaign draws its inspiration from the estimated one million children exploited in the carpet-making industry when GoodWeave began its work in 1994, and the one million or more knots that go into each handcrafted rug. GoodWeave has helped reduce the incidence of child labor in South Asia’s handmade rug industry by an estimated 75 percent.

  To learn more about GoodWeave, please visit: www.goodweave.org

  

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• 10.12.10 

  Share Your Passion.

   Whether it be a personal experience,  a family member, a friend, a co-worker or someone in your community, breast cancer is a disease that affects all of us. Share your inspiring stories and your passion for finding a cure with us. And help us make a difference. Donate to Susan G. Komen for the Cure® today by visiting our donation page. Donate $25 or more and receive a limited edition pink cosmetic bag! You can also support this Colorful Cause by purchasing one of our specially-designed breast cancer awareness rugs, the Karen’s or Sisters’ Rugs. Twenty percent of the retail price will be donated directly to Komen for the Cure.

  

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• 09.29.10 

  Sharing the Passion

  Company C, a national corporate partner of Susan G. Komen for a Cure®, is passionate about finding a cure. We’ve committed to donate $25,000 to support breast cancer awareness, research and education between October 1, 2010 and September 20, 2011.

  Twenty percent of sales of our specially-designed breast cancer awareness rugs, Karen’s Rug and The Sisters’ Rug, will be donated to Komen for a Cure. Are you on Facebook? All month long, you can win one of our Passion for Pink rugs! Every Friday in October, we’ll give away one of each design to a random Facebook friend. Make sure you “Like” Company C on Facebook: www.facebook.com/colorfulliving. (Employees, family members and vendors not eligible.)

  

  

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• 09.28.10 

  A look at our rug making process

  When we say “quality, handmade craftsmanship” we mean it! Company C co-founder and owner Walter Chapin filmed footage of the rug making process while visiting our production facilities in India. Next time you look at a Company C rug, think about the unbelievable amount of work that goes into each colorful masterpiece!
  
  

  

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• 09.07.10 

  Iris and Witching Hour Farm – Part Two

  

  Part two of our series, Iris and Witching Hour Farm, a project that was inpsired by our Iris design. The color is coming to life! Here are thoughts from the artist, Sarah El-Jallad:

  Inspiration: The Iris’s movement canopies the person in the chase, and breaks up the angles of the wall. I also think it’s great that the room brings the organic and geometric elements together harmoniously.

  Her process: I scoped out where I wanted the Iris positioned, and that largely depended on how I could make it interact with the wall’s harsh angle, and not seem awkward to the eye.
  Once the outline was established, I used wet cloth to wash in color, and outline the edges. I wanted the outline to be smooth, and transition well from light to dark — erasing the pigment with the wet cloth worked to my advantage in creating that smooth transition, because it eliminated the harsh brush stroke.
  The setting I think is great — the room is small, so blowing up the motif of the pillow’s small iris onto the wall I think creates a surreal, simple, and yet interesting composition for the viewer upon entering.

  Media used: Acrylic, wet cloth, wall paint, water, brushes.

  

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• 08.16.10 

  Design, Decorating and Dominos

  

  We’re always ecstatic when one of our designs inspires someone! Check out the blog post from Maison Decor – a great designer from the Boston area who recently purchased one of our April Blooms rugs from our Concord store. She made it the centerpiece of her living room and it prompted a redecorating project in both her living room and dining room! She takes you through the process step-by-step here. We highly recommend her blog for great tips!

  

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• 08.13.10 

  And the winner is…

  
  Congratulations to our “Pick your Favorite, then Pick a Rug” contest winner, Carol of Falmouth, Maine. Carol was selected at random out of over 200 submissions and will choose one of our Spectrum rugs to brighten up a room! Thank you for all your great entries and stay tuned for our next contest!

  

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• 08.13.10 

  Iris and Witching Hour Farm – Part One

  We are thrilled to introduce part one of our series, “Iris and Witching Hour Farm.” Guest blogger and designer Tracey Davidson of The Furniture Solution in West Friendship, MD, shares with us the process of putting together this project – including a room inspired by a Company C pillow! Stay tuned as we watch the room transform from a blank slate to the beautiful finished product!

  When I previewed Witching Hour Farm I loved the setting and knew I’d wanted to be involved.   The little room on the third floor was cozy and inviting, I remembered the Iris pillow I’d seen on the Company C site and new that it would be a perfect starting point for my design.  

  

    

   Here is the room description:

  This warm, cozy space is a place to escape from the demands of a busy life.  Inspired by the pillow on the inviting chaise lounge, walls are washed in a golden tan and accented with yellow, leaf and iris.  The long wall is enveloped by a hand painted mural of irises. The mural technique plays with scale – the small scale of the room contradicts, and accents the large scale of the painting. Colors are directly touching without harsh line, or linear composition.  The room’s style is crisp and clean.  All family members will want to linger in this personal retreat to read, write or watch the birds in the trees… 

  

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• 07.26.10 

  Pick your favorite, then pick a rug!

  Explore all the colorful 2010 Fall collections, then tell us what your favorite fall piece is and why. Post your comments on our blog, our Facebook Wall, or reply @companyc on Twitter by August 10 and you could win a 6’x9’ Spectrum rug in the color of your choice!

  

  Contest Rules: Dealers, vendors, other partners, employees and family members are not eligible to win. Only entries with valid email addresses will be entered in contest. Winner will be selected based on quality of entry and a random drawing of finalists’ names. Winner will be notified by August 13 via email.

  

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