Thursday nights Design On A Dime has come and gone, but not without me showing you what our vignette looked like with before and after shots. The event was a huge success with everyone from Real Housewives of NY to Ty Pennington, Simon Doonan and New York’s elite coming to share or shop the rooms.

We stayed true to the laidback steez and created a cool out minimal room that was full of graphics and color. The room was quite the understated hit with the low Bo Concept table, the fought after Brooklyn poster and the rocks pillows and Fatboy making everyone feel at home.

People hung out chatted it up in the space. A great time was had by all and money raised for an amazing cause. My son who was my handsome date even scored a Nickelodeon coffee table book. You can check out more pictures here.
Stay tuned for the breakdown and link to all of the designs used in the vignette in the next post.

Before

After

Today I had the opportunity to attend the 99%Conference put on by Behance and Coolhunting, a conference all about making ideas happen. As an ideas person, I start, stop, get frustrated, second guess myself and in that aspect just like 99% of ideas people let many fall by the wayside, but today’s conference reinforced that I am ready to fall into the 1% that actually bring ideas to fruition. That was the idea behind the conference, getting from the idea stage to actually putting in the work to make something happen. My highlight was hearing Seth Goodin speak and reinforcing the fact that we need to just do it or as he stated ship and ship on time. I also had the opportunity to speak briefly with him during lunch and he was as humble and witty as can be. Check out insight from the conference on Tina’s blog Swissmiss.

The Black Retail Action Group is hosting a panel called ” How to Succeed In The World Of Self-Employment” and yours truly along with Natalia Allen, Founder, Design Futurist, Miguel Antoinne, Owner, Miguel Antoinne, Sharon Joseph, Owner, Harlem Lanes, Tara Simone Powell, Owner, Barbara’s Flowers, and brothers Shane and Shawn Ward of Shane & Shawn will be sharing our stories and experiences as business owners.

DATE
Wednesday, April 22, 2009

TIME
6:00 pm – 8:30 pm

LOCATION
FashionOpolis @ LIM 12 E. 53rd Street
Ground Floor (b/w 5th & Madison)

FEE
Members – Free / Non-Members – $25 For more info check out the BRAG website

I know I have been gone for a week. Nothing exciting no new major developments but I have been working on the Back To School (BTS) events and campaign getting ready for the season. I am also a part of the twitter community and have linked the blog to my account. What that means for you is that you will now be current and get a little insider look into my day and my goings on. On the right hand side are my twitter feeds, it basically answers the question of what I am doing at the moment. Don’t get it mistaken it will not chronicle my “every moment (wink)” but it will give you a peek into the daily activities that help shape the Laidback empire.
there is also a link that says follow me if you are on twitter make me a friend and we can keep up with eachothers goings on.