How’s this for moving fast: in early Feb, I visited my friend Lou from Table Tonic blog for a kids playdate and we got chatting about what she was going to do after leaving her job. I was excited to hear her thoughts about an online store selling gorgeous exotic homewares. Excited because I knew it’d be a hit bringing these gorgeous things to our shores and that someone was possibly going to succeed where I had failed (I’d planned to do a similar thing with Moroccan wedding blankets, poufs and Turkish towels a couple of years ago, had a supplier all lined up, then got scared off by the economic doomsday and wasn’t brave enough to resurrect my idea!).

So this was in Feb. On Monday, Lou opened her store – Table Tonic – selling the most gorgeous range of ikat cushions (starting from than $90), vintage and new embroidered Mexican suzani bedspreads, tribal tassles and jewellery and baby buntings. Just look at all this prettiness…

Aren’t they beautiful? I’m astounded at how quickly it all came about, am impressed with the range and am looking forward to seeing what other goodies she has in store (ha!) for us shopaholics in the near future. I’m particularly excited (and slightly jealous of her can-do-ness) about the vintage Moroccan wedding blankets that will be arriving soon. I’m saving my pennies now! So, do you likey? I have my eye on the green chevron and grey diamond pattern ikat cushions, how about you?! Check out her store and say hi at her blog which is as colourful, pretty and eclectic as the items she now sells!

{top image courtesy Table Tonic. This was shot in Lou’s bedroom (which is in her dining room at the moment!). Collages 2 & 3 by me through my new fave tool – Picasa – using images from Table Tonic}

This entry was posted on Wednesday, March 10th, 2010 at 1:39 am and is filed under buys. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.