COCOCOZY ARCH FABRIC SITS PRETTY!

COCOCOZY textiles on a chair in a corner window in Illinois! (above)

Got this lovely photo shown above in my inbox yesterday - a very nice surprise.

CM, who runs all operations at COCOCOZY Headquarters (HQ) in Beverly Hills, forwarded me an email from our Illinois based customer Jennifer Heffernan.

In the email, Jennifer was sending us a photo of the extra wide armchair she recently upholstered in COCOCOZY Arch fabric!  She had purchased about 5 yards from us awhile back!

It is always such a huge treat for me to see COCOCOZY textiles doing good decor work in any home.

I love this corner of tall windows with a pink blossoming tree in the yard outside.  Great floors, fantastic windows, nice view and a little COCOCOZY in the mix too.  I wouldn't mind having a cup of tea and a good magazine read in this cute corner - so nice!

Well done Jennifer!

COCOCOZY Arch in Charcoal Gray -  Fabric by the yard 100% linen (above)

COCOCOZY Arch pillows in Navy and Sea Foam on a Barcelona chair! (above)

Thank you Jennifer for sharing your photo!  You made my day!

To all of you COCOCOZY textile devotees, if you have a photo of your COCOCOZY pillow, throw, fabric, drapery or home accessories in scene at your house, please send me a picture at cococozy@cococozy.com.  I would love to see!

Happy Tuesday!

xo
Coco

P.S.  Just got off the phone with my dentist's office.  We were scheduling my next appointment.  As we were getting off the phone, I asked the dental office person if she could email me a confirmation with the date and time...she said without hesitation,"We don't have email". Who doesn't "have email" these days?  Hmmm...perplexing.

P.P.S.  Got a text from best of friend AM last night around 7:30p my time.  She's in NYC and I am in L.A.  Text said "Your pillows are on Bravo".  Of course, I was skeptical...have had way too many aunts and friends call saying "I just saw your pillows on the local news...they were interviewing a lady about her cat being lost and I saw your pillow in the background."  Needless to say...all of these previous calls have been false alarms.  Last night was different.  Leave it to Harvard Business School alum business wiz decorating maven super smart best of friend AM to get it right.  AM was watching a Bravo TV reality show called Newlyweds The First Year.  Guess she was watching the show with her husband JE because she texted from his phone.  Low and behold, in a scene where a couple named Kim and Alaska were shopping at Gracious Home in New York, they picked up a COCOCOZY Logo pillow and were carrying it around!  I recorded the show on my DVR. Woohoo...will try to take a photo of the screen tonight so you can see.

WEEKEND PHOTO!

A little COCOCOZY moment!

(Arch linen pillows and a navy Logo throw on my sis DS's Barcelona chair)

Enjoy the weekend!

xo
Coco

DESIGNING A NIGHT OUT AT HARBINGER - A FEW OF MY FAVORITE THINGS!

All photos in this post by Coco of COCOCOZY

So...went to chic Los Angeles home furnishings showroom Harbinger last night.  Met up with the COCOCOZY Team (CM and LH came along) for a quick stop by for an anniversary party/book signing.

When I first arrived, I ran into showroom owner and fab interior designer Joe Lucas and showroom manager Tami Carey who are both so awesome.  I didn't see Parsish Chilcoat though...she owns Harbinger along with Joe...I'm sure she was there but I was too busy gabbing.

I love Harbinger...for a few reasons...1) I love the amazing collection of fine furniture they have curated...2) the textiles they sell to the trade are gorgeous and 3) Harbinger carries the COCOCOZY textiles collection and sells fabric by the yard to the trade!

So generally, I love the overall vibe of Harbinger but last night I had so much fun nosing around gorgeous furniture.  Here are some things that were quite exciting to see last night.

COCOCOZY Quatrefoil Gray Reverse Drapery panels in the window at Harbinger! (above)

COCOCOZY textile collection on display! (above)

This darling ceramic pierced ombre shaded table lamp in blue and white. (above and below)

Meeting interior designer Amanda Nisbet during a signing for her book Dazzling Design. (above and below)

A leather turquoise tufted square ottoman doubling as a coffee table!  Love! (above)

This light blue Harbinger original armchair.  Lovely.  Need two! (above)

For the daring, an upholstered settee in bold graphic pattern. (above)

The overall scene at Harbinger's anniversary party/book signing. (above)

Everyone was so nice...including Amanda Nisbet who gave me a tip on some furniture I need for COCOCOZY HQ.

Fun night overall!

Anything here that you see that you like? Any design inspirations from the things I like? Do tell.

Happy Wednesday again!

xo
Coco

P.S. Tonight am supposed to go to another event.  It is up in the air as to whether I'll be able to squeeze that in!  I'll try!

All photos in this post by Coco of COCOCOZY

MARKET WATCH: COCOCOZY NAVY!

Photos in this post by Coco of COCOCOZY

So I am back home in Los Angeles. I just got in from Atlanta yesterday afternoon.  I was there for several days for the Atlanta International Gift & Furnishing Market.  Market is still going on there for a few days but I had to get back to go to work this morning.

As you probably know (only because I've blabbed about it all week on the blog), I was in Atlanta showing off the COCOCOZY home furnishings collection to buyers.  I am so happy that my collection is housed at the very prestigious Christian Mosso Associates (CMA) showroom with so many other amazing lines.  So if you are still in Atlanta and have not stopped by the showroom, the COCOCOZY collection is still there for you to view (CMA is in America's Mart, Building 1, 9th Floor).  Please stop by and let me know what you think!

Market is so much fun...so many fun people to meet and there are so many fabulous things to see at market.  So this week, each day, I'm going to try to bring you a bit of what I saw and liked while in Atlanta in a few MARKET WATCH posts.

Today I bring you an unplanned bedding vignette that happened in the showroom one day!

This "COCOCOZY moment" pictured here happened when a customer was reviewing the COCOCOZY textiles collection. She wanted to see what the navy collection looked like...so we took an Arch Reverse Linen Pillow and Gate Throw in navy and threw them on an entirely silk bed by Kumi Kookoon and tah dah.  Love the combination of navy and white.  So wonderful.

What do you think of this little accidental bedding moment?  Like or dislike?

Happy Monday!

xo
Coco

P.S.  Got home yesterday and it was gorgeous here in L.A.  Good news is that it was perfect weather.  Only, not so good news is that when I pulled up to my house I saw that all of my pretty purple and white flowers had died.  I forgot to leave the automatic sprinklers on! Oy va voy.

P.P.S.  Had a fabulous dinner with PR and his sister J on Saturday night in Atlanta.  We went to a restaurant in downtown Atlanta called Thrive.  We got there about 7:30 and pretty much had the pick of the restaurant on where we wanted to sit (it wasn't busy).  We got a very nice waitress as our server.  Turns out she was new to the restaurant staff so she kept having to go back to the kitchen and ask questions.  After we received our appetizer and while we were waiting for our main course, the waitress came up to the table and asked us if we wanted dessert and asked if we had made our dessert selection.  We all chuckled because we though she was joking...we hadn't even received our main course yet.  PS joked with the waitress and said "We haven't even seen a dessert menu."  She immediately smiled and scurried off.  Moments later she returned with dessert menus and said asked us if we wanted dessert again.  I said, "Oh, I think we'd like to have dinner first before we order".  The waitress stared at us blankly.  Then J realized that the waitress was confused and J explained in detail and slowly what we had ordered for dinner and were still waiting on that.  Then a light bulb went off over our waitresses head.  She had forgotten that we hadn't eaten our main course yet! A few minutes later our food came out.  It was delicious. We all got a good laugh including the very nice waitress (who was so so sweet....turns out she's a student here for a few months in the U.S. learning English)!

P.P.P.S.  I must say...I've now been to Atlanta four times in my life...each time to show the collection.  This was the first time I really enjoyed the city!

P.P.P.P.S.  Off to work this morning...heavier.  While in the south, I sure did eat. It was ridiculous.  The CMA showroom has margaritas in the afternoon and snacks all day...and then I went to all of these fabulous dinners. I stopped by one showroom during lunch one day while at market and they had something called Chick Fil-A and I had that (had never had it before) basically it is fried chicken.  Yesterday when I got home, I immediately went to Wholefoods  and bought tons of veggies, fruit, my raw granola and some quinoa.  I must now go on an austerity program.  A few weeks ago I also bought this blending device so I can "juice"...am going to have to pull it out of the box.  Check out COCOCOZY Twitter or Instagram to see what I bought and let me know if you think it will work.  I posted about it last week.  Okay...back to reality!

Photos in this post by Coco of COCOCOZY

I SPY A COCOCOZY GATE THROW!

Was perusing through the Coco + Kelley blog the other day and was happy to see a COCOCOZY Gate Throw in burnt orange dangling over the arm of a cute white sofa!  It looks good.  Such a thrill to see COCOCOZY textiles here and there!  The COCOCOZY Gate Throw is one of my favorites from the collection and it has been super popular.

COCOCOZY - Gate Throw - $333 (Cotton knit reversible throw.  Made in the U.S.)

Here's the throw in Sage Green mixed in with some COCOCOZY pillows! (above)

Do you like the way Cassandra from Coco + Kelley styled the throw in her apartment?  How do you typically throw a throw?  Are you a throw person or do you like a simple look on a sofa with no pillows or throws?  Do tell.

Happy Wednesday!

xo
Coco

P.S.  I did a post awhile back on How to Throw a Throw...in case you thought it might be useful.  You can see how I used a COCOCOZY Gate Throw in my own living room!

A COCOCOZY GIVEAWAY!

COCOCOZY Logo Throw in navy on a white chair! (above)

Today is giveaway day here on COCOCOZY!  Woot woot!  Hip hip hooorah!

So as promised...today, I am doing my first ever giveaway from my own COCOCOZY home furnishings collection.  My way of saying thank you for following along on the blog.

I will give away a total of two (2) COCOCOZY Logo Throws.  I will let the winners chose color depending on availability (the Logo throws are popular so it is hard to keep all colors in stock).

How to enter...two easy steps:

Step 1. Please follow me over on COCOCOZY Pinterest; (if you are already following me there, you've got Step 1 covered)

Step 2. Leave a comment here on this post just saying how you might use a COCOCOZY throw this summer (i.e. in your living room, as a picnic or beach blanket, in a bedroom, give it away to a friend etc)! Make sure to leave some kind of contact information like an email address so I can get in touch with you.

Deadline: Enter by noon Pacific Standard Time on 6/13/12 (tomorrow).

I will read all comments tomorrow night and select two winners and announce the winners on Thursday!

COCOCOZY Logo cotton knit reversible throws. (above)

In my giving spirit, as promised, I have also made a donation to a local charity here in Los Angeles called A Place Called Home this morning. This is a wonderful organization that provides an after school venue for kids who wouldn't otherwise have any place to go after school.  They offer study areas, food, classes, recreation and more to kids in need.  I love this charity.  I've toured the APCH campus and really they do a great job for kids who really need a place to call home after school.

So today is my day of giving...for no reason...just because I feel very thankful and want to give back!

Please make sure to enter the giveaway!  Wish you much luck!  Can't wait to read your comments.

Happy Tuesday!

xo
Coco