From the time I was young, through the time I received my MBA, I was taught it was important to set goals at the beginning of each New Year, but now, with two teens { one 15 and one 18 }, a busy interior design practice here in Midland, Texas, my community work and my blogging, I’ve learned to be flexible and to state dreams or wishes, not goals.
I’ve learned to have faith in the power of prayer to unlock my dreams and to be ok with the fact that some of what I wish for will occur on God’s schedule, not mine.
However, I do want to share with you, readers, my Top 5 wishes for 2014 and if only the first wish comes true, that will be more than enough for me.
1. That my daughter is happy and safe during her first year at the University of Texas -Austin next fall. This is Amy and I. Some people say we look alike. What do you think?
2. That my interior design practice here in Midland, Texas continues to thrive and that if the opportunity presents itself, to have one or more of my design projects published. I completed 9 interior design projects in 2013 and have 4 more under contract for the 1st quarter of 2014, and would love to see one or more of them in print before the end of 2014.
3. To go to Paris with Modenus’ Blog Tour. If you’re not familiar with this design resource, readers, Veronika Miller, who owns Modenus, curates the best luxury products in the world on her site. Click here to see for yourselves. Each year, she invites a select group of designers and bloggers to attend one of several brand sponsored Blog Tours that she organizes. In 2014, she’s taking interior designer bloggers to Las Vegas, Milan, Paris, London and other exciting destinations.
It is my dream to go to Paris in September to see the Maison Objet furniture show, which I’ve never seen before, with the group she chooses and to help she and her brand sponsors have a successful event. One of Veronika’s past sponsors, luxury kitchen resource, Poggenpohl Kitchens, outfitted the Imperial Suite at the Ritz in Paris. Toma Clark Haines, known to some of you as The Antiques Diva, wrote about that here for Modenus.
If you’d like, join the Modenus Instagram Community by clicking here and like the Modenus Facebook Page by clicking here. Even if I don’t get to go, I will enjoy following along with any of my friends who are chosen for this very special trip.
4. I dream of being able to go to one of Brizo’s Jason Wu Fashion Week events.
Brizo, a subsidiary of Delta Faucet, has a successful design collaboration with world renowned fashion designer Jason Wu, and invites a group of 19 design bloggers to go to New York Fashion Week each Spring and Fall.
During this event, they immerse the blogger attendees, most of whom are interior designers like myself, in their faucet innovations, they ask for our feedback on new product introductions and, after this, they treat everyone to a seat at Jason Wu’s live fashion show in NYC.
Fall 2012 Jason Wu
I would be so excited and honored to be asked to attend this in the fall of 2014. Fellow interior designer Courtney Price Design who lives in Dallas, and who has attended this before and who took the adorable picture below, which was on her post about the Blogger 19 reunion this past summer to benefit St. Judes Cancer Hospital, here, also took the photo of Veronika Miller above.
Speaking of St. Jude’s, here’s a picture of Rebecca Reynolds, whom I mentioned on my last post, having fun with and helping a child at St. Jude’s decorate a dollhouse room during Brizo’s Blogger 19 reunion in Memphis last summer.
If you need a new faucet, may I recommend you consider Brizo, readers? Even if I am never invited to attend this event, what Brizo does to raise money for the children of St. Jude’s and their families, none of whom ever pays for cancer treatment, is a reason I will specify them whenever I can in my interior design projects here in Midland, Texas.
5. My last wish is to be a High Point Market StyleSpotter in 2014. The Style Spotter program has won many accolades for the advertising agency that conceived of it, Emisare, along with the then Vice President of Marketing for the High Point Market Authority, Cheminne Taylor-Smith, for being one of the most innovative influencer marketing programs in the country. You can read about that, here, on the Huffington Post.
It would be fun to be involved with this and to bring attention to the trends I see from the manufacturers exhibiting there, that I think will become classics, and to share with you what I see. If I get selected, I would also ask you to vote for my pinned favorite trends so that I might have a chance to win this fun competition with my fellow designers and get to go back as the winner for the next market.
This past fall, fello;w luxury designer Michelle Jennings Wiebe, who lives in Tampa and whom I so enjoyed meeting for the first time at the Fall market, was the winner but, because Michelle also won last Spring, designer Shay Geyer, who almost won it this past fall but not quite, whom I know and who lives in Dallas, gets to go on the free return trip to High Point market this coming spring 2014.
Congratulations, Shay!
Shay has the red jacket on in the 2nd row
That’s my wish list and now that I’ve made it public, I will turn it over to prayer and trust that if one or more of these doors is meant to open, it will.
Please share with me your wish lists, too. I’d love for you to leave a link to your 2014 New Year’s posts, too, in my comments so I can know what your dreams are in 2014 and, if you do, I’ll write down and add your dreams to my prayer box.
Have a blessed New Year and thank you again for subscribing and supporting HADLEY COURT and me, in 2013. I am grateful and wish you, your families and friends and your businesses a very prosperous and safe 2014.
Leslie Hendrix Wood
Founder
https://hadleycourt.com/blog/
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