Each of our retailers possesses distinctive individual charm, spreading the personal touch of Waxing Poetic in their local communities every day. As a token of our gratitude to our retailers and because we think you’ll love them as much as we do, we’re delighted to introduce Gracie’s.
Located in the heart of The Stand District in Galveston Texas, Gracie’s is an adorable boutique featuring an array of name-brand gifts, furnishings, children’s toys and clothing.
Hi All,
It’s already the middle of October! October, as you ought to know, is Breast Cancer Awareness Month.
Breast Cancer Awareness Month is a particularly big deal at Waxing Poetic.
We’re a company predominantly composed of women, we make jewelry (for everyone, but especially ladies), and we’re generally obsessed with honoring mamas everywhere, so when a designated month appears to spread the word about the ongoing battle to vanquish a foe that threatens our heroines, OH YES we’re going to do something about it. Several somethings. And keep on.
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We had such a wonderful time at our catalogue shoot this year, we just had to share part of it with you. Check out some behind the scenes footage set to the tunes of one of our muses, Haddon Cord.
2011 Catalogue Shoot – Music by Haddon Cord from Waxing Poetic on Vimeo.
We were asked by our dear friend Polly Firestone Walker to design the label for a special cuvee as part of a fundraising event for St. Mark’s-In-The-Valley Episcopal Church in Los Olivos. St. Mark’s is our neighbor, and we love to support them whenever we have the opportunity, so we jumped at the chance to design the bottle art. Our designer Stephanie Kheder designed the label, featuring her hand illustrated St. Mark’s lion etched into the glass. What a fun project, and all for a good cause.
For this year’s event, as well as offering some unbelievable bottles of wine for auction (1945 Chateau Calon-Segur, a 1949 Chateau Lafite-Rothschild, and a 1947 Chateau Cheval Blanc are just three of them that pop to mind) Brooks Firestone decided to create a one-of-a-kind 18l bottle of Santa Ynez Valley Syrah, blended from some local producers (Doug Margerum, Jorian Hill, Curtis Winery and Clos Pepe among others). When the idea was raised to have an etched label, Polly immediately thought of Patti and Stephanie and all the amazing artists of Waxing Poetic.
As well as serving its parishioners, St. Mark’s also provides a space for various groups like the Jewish Community, the Foodbank of Santa Barbara, AA, the Valley Community Theater, Pacific Pride Foundation, Toastmasters, and the Los Olivos Rotary to name a few. St. Mark’s is also home to a thriving Pre-School.
We had the pleasure of working with immensely talented photographer Jose Villa as well as Jill La Fleur of La Fleur Weddings recently, for a special bridal shoot.
The location was at the Ojai Valley Inn & Spa and the wedding gown was designed by Claire La Faye. Waxing Poetic was the perfect accompaniment. It was such a wonderful experience and we can’t wait to do it again sometime soon. Enjoy the photos and check out our pieces from the shoot!
Rosary Lariat with freshwater pearls, silver plate, and crystal drop
Spinner Cross Ring with sterling silver and brass
Free Form Pearl Wrap Necklace with sterling silver, gold plate, and rose gold plate
Love Pendant with sterling silver and brass
Poetic Cross Bracelet with a sterling silver charm
Rosary Necklace with bronze freshwater pearls and crystal
Camp Stud Heart Earrings with brass and sterling silver
Steve and Caroline Thompson, both husband and wife and owners of Cabana Home in Santa Barbara, hosted a “Breakfast N Bed” event in-store on Wednesday, June 23rd. Waxing Poetic had the pleasure of unveiling our brand new soy candle line, Luminary, at the event.
In celebration of ‘all things bed,’ the event also showcased Cabana Home’s private label of custom upholstered headboards and beds, a trunk show for Matouk Linens, and a display of world-renowned Hastens Mattresses from Sweden.
At the event Caroline met with Monica Spear, the Executive Director of Girls Inc. of Greater Santa Barbara. Here they are holding the new Ave Maria candles that support the Girls Inc. cause.
We enjoyed lovely hors d’oeuvres prepared by local caterer Jessica Knight, and in keeping with the theme, the Thompson duo and their staff dressed in seersucker robes by Matouk. We truly enjoyed participating in the event and think it was the most wonderful way to share our new candles with our local Santa Barbara community.
For each purchase of a Luminary line candle, Waxing Poetic will donate 5% of proceeds to a charitable cause. Check out all of our candles here to learn about the charities we support.
Each of our retailers possesses distinctive individual charm, spreading the personal touch of Waxing Poetic in their local communities every day. As a token of our gratitude to our retailers and because we think you’ll love them as much as we do, we’re delighted to introduce Zinnia.
Zinnia is a boutique located in Mount Pleasant, South Carolina. Their gorgeous store features artisan jewelry, fanciful gifts and beautiful home décor accessories.
Things are busy here at the Waxing Poetic offices this week! We spent Monday on the set of our photo shoot at the offices here in Los Olivos, as well as with the WP ring-leader, Patti Pagliei. The focus of our photo shoot was to capture the story of Patti and the company. Thanks to the skilled eyes of Nancy Neil – professional photographer and friend from Santa Barbara (check out her fantastic blog here: http://nancyneil.tumblr.com/0) – behind the camera’s lens, she was successful in capturing much more than just pretty faces and fun jewelry.
Here at Waxing Poetic’s HQ, we all design, plot, produce and service our line in various small, overcrowded rooms in our cottage-y offices that are adjacent to our flagship store. We are all so intently focused on what we do, that sometimes (read: always), it is good to orchestrate events that bring our sales, customer service and creative teams together. Like…
The First Annual Waxing Poetic Retailers & Reps Round Table.
We have been given a new decade. Another chance to frame the world as it is, acknowledging that is slinks very swiftly into was, and then.
Everything moves so quickly.
We usually try to start with a word. Sometimes several. This year, we kept an older one (wayfinding), considered one we love both as object and action (shrine), and tried to find something, if nothing else, that could hold that intimate, shareable, but almost inarticulable place in a sentence (the way one might hold a scene, a memory, a moment).
We ended up hung up on a prefix: RE. From the Latin, meaning to go back, again; and again…
How this tiny pair of letters shifts the meaning of everything it touches – sometimes quietly, sometimes with bravado, but always with a kind of great care… it seems more than appropri- ate to make a shortlist of re-words, and follow suit by taking care to see the huge shifts made by the very small.
Restore. Held Close, too.
Return. A Second, A third, or Several times over
Replace. What might have once been lost gets found and found
Repair. Or made better. Letting the seams show.
Review. Seen differently this time, with different motives
Return. (again) : over, around, and back
Recall. To go back in memory , shift timeplaces
Relinquish. To let go, set free
Revive. Brought back to life, as if from sleep , the difference of only a few…
Reconsider.
And then a not so obvious one: Repository.
Yes. Repository… refers to an archive. A storehouse. A trove of information or treasures. Also, it can be a trusted person, a confidante, a keeper. In a way, a kind of shrine. A tangible place (or thing) to safe-keep the intangible. We store things inside of other things, but more implicitly, we are ourselves repositories—our own mutable archives; our commonplace books, our silva rerum, our narratives and our most cherished attempts.
We have so much to keep safe, and keep close, and consider….
Love,
WP
