Celebrate Earth Day At ABC Carpet & Home

To celebrate our planet on Earth Day, I am featuring one of my favorite NYC stores, ABC Carpet & Home. The store and their website is fabulous, and filled with inspiration. They believe in makers that create earth-kind objects. In general, their approach to sustainable design supports a healthier planet, home, and individual. Love that!

Get inspired and take yourself shopping at ABC Home

Rugs & Carpets

Let's begin with rugs. They feature in store and online the one of the largest collections of rugs in the world. Alchemy carpets are hand knotted in a fair trade factory in India. Sari silks and wools are upcycled to spin fabric for new rugs.  Every rug is 100% handmade. You just don't find that everywhere. The Essentials Collection is more moderately priced, but also hand made in India. If you are looking for wall to wall carpet, and live in the NY Tristate area, you are in luck, as they are having a 50% off sale! 

Pillows & Cushions

One of my favorite areas in the store. Everything is just so creatively displayed, and of course, handmade. You will just want to plop into a pile of pillows, poufs, and cushions. 

Bedding

Put some love into your sleep sanctuary with non-toxic bedding. These shades of pink are comforting, but you'll find any color that you are looking for. The organic bedding is mindfully handmade in India by local artisans. 

Dining & Entertaining

This department, on the first floor is displayed like a luxurious emporium. A world of coupes, tumblers, cups, carafes, and flutes await you. Not to mention the handcrafted dinnerware made by ceramicists all over the world. The organic shapes and materials are so awesome and appealing. Bonus is that they carry my favorite non-toxic, non-stick Caraway Cookware. 

Furniture

The furniture is all hand crafted from sustainably sourced wood. Choose from custom furnishings and upholstered pieces to vintage one of a kind styles. 

Lighting

A little light here and there, makes all the difference. Their design forward collection is filled with functional works of art.  It's all energy conscious, LED, and made responsibly. From floor to ceiling, these lights are never boring. 

Art & Decor

Featured in this department are fabulous candles with scents designed to bring forth uplifting positivity and calm.  One of a kind vases are handcast inside of balloons. Others are made  in France, and recycled glass bottles are given new life as Phoenician glass sculptured forms.  All of these thoughtful touches make your space a beautiful reflection of yourself.

Jewelry

Jewelry handmade with love. ABC's jewelry  respects exceptional craftsmanship as well as human and environmental rights. Celestial and ethereal, their selection is made from responsibly sourced gemstones and sustainable metals.

 Wellness

"Find a moment, lean into the calm, let go of the thoughts and listen. Your skin and spirit deserve a reprieve." I always linger in this section. It's my kind of heaven. You are instantly calmed by the aromatherapy experience of the non toxic products like "Carry Om Aromatherapy Essence, and 

"Spirit Works Space Essence."

You'll want everything in the Bath and Body department. I found the Alchemist's Kitchen organic CBD balm in fragrances like Lemongrass. The Face Steam and Bath Tea, and all of the intentional objects to aid your well being, are so interesting. 

Natural Beauty

This is another fun department with non toxic natural makeup and skincare. Stocked is olive oil lipstick, Sundays non toxic nail polish, Eve Perez vanilla highlighter, and so many more unique and healthy products.

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Saturdays At Shop This

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Today I find myself longing for pretty flowers, Spring fashion, and warm walks on the lake. Enough already with this weather. The good news is Spring is less than a month away. Here's some links that will give you Spring inspiration, and save you a little while you shop.

Spring Break: Are you planning one?  Adult spring break is nothing like your trips in college. These days it is essentially a civilized week in the sun. Moda Operandi's Vacation Shop has everything you need to take you from the pool to the beach and back again.
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Pop in at Nordstrom online this weekend. They have set up a special shop just for Natural Beauty. Discover cult favorites and need-to-know new brands in their collection of powerful skin care, spectrum-spanning makeup and tools to transform your routine. I have been slowly going chemical free in my own skincare routine. My skin is thanking me for it!
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This weekend, Ann Taylor is helping us to get dressed for Spring with 50% off Tops and Sweaters. Use Code: TOPITOFF. The new white shirts are great with 
either a slim or relaxed fit.
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The Best Spring Shoes according to Barney's New York. Try Code: FEB15 to save 15%. Code ends tonight, and there are exceptions.
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BCBGMAXAZRIA is offering 40% off select Full Priced new styles. On my radar is this Midi Dress. It's very understated cocktail. And the Camilla Long Wrap Vest can be worn in so many ways.
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Anthropologie Sale: For this weekend only, take an extra 40% off Sale. I found a few things that can be worn all thru Spring, like Rachel Comey's Striped Sandals.
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It's a great weekend to shop guilt free at Gilt for your fave designers like Max Mara, Bottega Veneta  and more. 
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Soon we will be showing a little more skin as warmer weather approaches. I have to tell you about my latest skincare find. It's the 4 Piece Sea Salt Age Defying System for body from Korres. Every day I feel as if I just went to the Greek Isles. The "barely there" scent is of the sea. The "elixir" is the star of the set. Best yet, the natural ingredients are good for you, too! Shop it at HSN.

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Match your Mini this Spring. Shop Oscar De La Renta's Mommy  (or Grand Mommy) & Me Collection of stylishly sweet looks HERE.
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Not all good styles for Spring are new. Jewelry designer, Lisa Salzer Wiles of Lulu Frost, creates one of a kind Vintage Jewelry.  These styles incorporate elements from the years 1860 to 1980. I love it all, but my favorites
are the charm bracelets. 
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Even if the weather isn't cooperating this weekend, we can all bloom where we are planted. In other words, Make the best of today, my Friends.

XOXOX
Deb
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Beauty Sale At Neiman Marcus - 20% off!

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Surprise! Coming to you on a Monday with a special post. This girl's playground has always been the beauty aisles at Neiman Marcus on Michigan Avenue. I am like a kid in a candy store there. Shopping beauty online is also fun, and I do it often. Neiman's has upped the fun factor by offering 20% off most of their beauty and fragrance products.  This special sale runs through October 24th. I say it is time to stock up or try something new. With free shipping and returns, what's to lose?  Here's a glam glance at some of the Best in Beauty at Neiman Marcus!



~ Beauty Award Winners ~

Oribe Haircare
Over 13 of their products are award winners. Bigger, better, full-on glamorous hair. The Dry Texturizing Spray has been something I have wanted to try. This invisible dry hair spay builds in incredible volume and sexy texture. Patented polymers absorb oil at the roots. I know someone that uses it, and her hair is
 always lovely!

Diorshow Mascara

Winner, Glamour magazine's "Best Mascara" Beauty Award (2016) 2017 InStyle Award Winner. I have used the waterproof Diorshow for years. It's all about the brush.  I just love it.

Giorgio Armani Luminous Silk Foundation
Named "Hall of Fame Foundation" in Elle magazine's "Hall of Fame" (October 2010) and Allure Beauty Award Winner in 2017. It's oil free and just a beautiful product.

Smith & Cult Nail Lacquer
An Allure Beauty Award winner. Besides the fabulous colors, this polish is without all of the bad chemicals that are in so many polishes like Formaldehyde. Be sure to check out the shade Rose Gold.

Laura Mercier Tinted Moisturizers
A great product that for some, can replace your foundation. It's coverage is buildable. There are so many colors to chose from, that you are bound to find the perfect shade. The oil free tinted moisturizer is an InStyle award winner.

~ Tom Ford ~

Tom Ford Private Shadow
How gorgeous is this color? The shade is called Breathless. His line features 30 shades with different finishes from above to matte. All gorgeous. I have this shade in my cart.

Tom Ford Lip Color Lipstick
With 50 shades, I know that you can find the perfect hue for you! Here are a few of my favorites...Top Left: Devour Bottom Left: Spanish Pink  Right: Naked Ambition. And that case is super elegant.

~ Clean Beauty ~

I applaud Neiman Marcus for carrying beauty products that are organic and actually good for us. Personally I am slowly moving to all natural skincare. After all, our skin is our largest organ, why not treat it to the best products there are....meaning chemical free.

Juice Beauty
"Today, Juice Beauty offers award winning  
( InStyle, ELLE, Allure, Glamour, EWG ) skincare and makeup products that meet rigorous USA organic regulations supported by solid eco-values. I happen to love how their products smell....clean and juicy!

Tata Harper Skincare
Tata Harper founded her namesake brand to give the skincare industry a fresh start with highly effective and luxurious antiaging beauty products free of synthetic and chemical ingredients. Made in small batches at laboratories in Vermont, Harper's products contribute to health, well-being, and 
peace of mind.

Jane Iredale
Committed to revealing and enhancing your natural beauty. Jane offers pure mineral makeup in rich colors and soothing skin care products that nurture your skin. The make up is beautiful.

~ Home Fragrance & Gifts ~

Nest Fragrances
This line is so beautiful and also very giftable. Interesting to know that the gift shop of the Peninsula Hotel in Chicago only sells Nest Candles.   Click above to shop and save on their full range of home fragrances. 

Jo Malone London Candles
Just so very luxe and lovely. With scents like Lime Basil & Mandarin, Wood Sage & Sea Salt, Sweet Almond & Macaroon and more, these candles make a beautiful gift.

Diptique
This home collection blends classic with modern. The candle scents actually have a cult status. 

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Armani Prive

Viktor & Rolf Flowerbomb

Jo Malone London

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You'll also find the Lancome, Clinique, Estee Lauder, La Mer,  Bobbi Brown,  Lipstick Queen and many more.

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