Bloomingdale's

“Furnitures were very ornate. It has a lot of very, you know, gilded finish. And then the plates are like Laura Ashley prints, you know, very small, grandma's wallpaper floral. And I'm just wondering, the person who is so confident walking on the street will go…”

“And we suddenly saw within, I think, three or four months, We had close to a 150,000 couples registered in our registry. To put that into context, that's more than what Bloomingdale's was registering back then.”

“So when they came into the store, they knew, they didn't understand it, but they knew something was happening, and so they wanted to open a shop, a small shop in Bloomingdale's.”

“And then I would always end in a home department, and it would always give me a lot of questions, because it would look like it's in the 19 twenties. Furnitures were very ornate. It has a lot of very, you know, gilded finish. And then the plates are like Laura…”

“So in 1995, Bloomingdale's called and said, will you make us Four essential oil blends for our holiday catalog. I know, we said sure, and we had to think of a name for the company then, and these were very small bottles, so, you know, we didn't have a lot of r…”

“It crushed it, but crushing it from the other side, I think they ordered once.”

“It was, I think 15,000 dollars.”

“Within, I think, three or four months... We had close to a 150,000 couples registered in our registry. To put that into context, that's more than what Bloomingdale's was registering back then.”

“You know, I wrote that manifesto, that, that small business plan, and said, you know, we're gonna be sold in Bloomingdale's, and the buyer said, no way, we don't sell water bottles.”

“The independent designers or the independent retailers did so much more for us because they could explain the product in person, and so their sales volume was so good, I didn't really need to be in those stores.”

“You don't ask permission. You just do it. We still do it. But the, we still do it. Like I went to Bloomingdale's yesterday and I moved our stuff and like moved something out.”