Brie Harrison

I saw a post over on Designsponge on Brie Harrison's new textile design for Winter's Moon, and I fell in love with it. It's called Nasturtium and I'm on fire to own it. I checked out her website and all her prints are as fabulous as nasturtium and you can get them in cards, shoppers or cushions. Mmm, cushions...

Denver Art Museum/Yves St. Laurent exhibit

So, last week the family mosied on over to Colorado for a little vacation. Our first stop was Denver, so we could see the Yves. St Laurent exhibit at the Denver Art Museum.

The Denver Art Museum is HUGE, part of it looks like a castle fortress the other is all geometric sharp shapes. We just saw the Yves exhibit, so we didn't get to delve into the rest of their seemingly extensive collection.

The St. Laurent exhibit is, weirdly, only being displayed in three cities; Paris, Madrid and Denver. How Denver got it, I don't know, but kudos to them! Oh, it was gorgeous and made you want to go home and sew, sew, sew. There were day suits and ball gowns, tuxedos (oh! The tuxedos) and even a recreation of Catherine Deneuve's closet.

We weren't allowed to take pictures in this exhibit, all of following photos were taken by Erica Nikolaidis and you can see more of them over on DesignSponge.

Really, if you are in the Denver area, or are close enough to make a weekend trip, go see this. It's worth the jaunt.

Oh, and don't forget that you can go vote for us at missionsmallbusiness.com to get us the opportunity to win a 250,000.00 grant. We need 250 votes by Friday and you should just go vote if you don't want to hear about it all week...otherwise I'll have to nag you day after day! Just go here, log in through Facebook, search bon bon atelier and hit vote. We would really appreciate it!

Bon bon atelier Grant

Hi all, I know it's been super quiet around here this week but that is because we have been busy working on a grant application. Living Social and Chase are giving away multiple grants for $250,000.00 and boy could we do some really great things for the store with that money.

First though, we need 250 votes by this Friday, just to be considered. We would really appreciate it if you could go to www.missionsmallbusiness.com, click Log-in and vote and search for bon bon atelier....and then hit Vote!

Thank you so much, we really appreciate it!

Back in Action!

We are back from our trip! It is nice to be back, but I already miss vacation. I think I need to win the lottery so I can be on permanent vaca. While we were away all sorts of goodies arrived, including two new Liberty of London prints, a gorgeous silk and 3 really lovely rayon prints from Free Spirit. If you are making some summer dresses, we have fabric for you! They aren't online yet, but will be by the end of the week, I promise!

Liberty Wiltshire

Liberty Poppy Daisy in a bright orange/blue colorway

Pink, blue, brown and aqua silk polka dots!

Annette Tatum rayons. Super soft!

Family Vacation

Hey all! The bon bon family is taking a vacation this weekend and will be closed Monday June 18th and Tuesday June 19th. We will reopen at 10:00 on Wednesday the 20th. See you soon!

Road Trip

E and I are setting off today for a road trip to Colorado with the family. We will be open today and tomorrow but closed on Monday and Tuesday. We'll see you when we get back!

New bathing suit

So, I've been thinking about getting a new bathing suit. Actually, it's not a new thought, I started pondering it last summer. No, I'm not planning a fabulous beach vacation nor do I have a pool, but the only bathing suit I have is at least 10 years old. I guess I feel like you should have a good one on hand just in case some fabulous beach vacation pops up, right? Always be prepared, that's my motto.

So, do you think I can find one that makes me look like Marilyn Monroe? Or do you think that is setting my goals too high?