About Connections... and six degrees of separation

A post or two ago, I shared about connecting with someone that I knew of, before I had the chance to get to know personally, Jeanelle Dech.  Today, I am going to share another story of connections.  Several months ago Rebecca Deming Rumpf came to a WCAA meeting.  Rebecca is an interior designer here in the Charlotte, NC area, and, since I had not seen her at a WCAA meeting before, I decided to introduce myself.  We ended up having a wonderful conversation about blogging,  and social media.  Soon afterwards, she "friended" me on Facebook and we began to keep up with each other.  Recently, Rebecca won a trip to Paris from Hesler Brothers, by competing in their essay contest.  Helser Brothers is a high-end drapery hardware company, and they wanted someone to attend the Maison and Objet show in Paris and blog about it for them.  Rebecca did a wonderful job and you can read her posts here http://www.whyhelser.com/category/helser-field-bloggers/paris-2010/.  I haven't seen Rebecca since her return, but she is going to share her trip with the members of our Charlotte WCAA group at our meeting in March.  I can't wait to hear all about it.

Last year, I was asked to co-chair a Spring Event for the WCAA.  I thought it might be neat to include the Charlotte AIDP as a marketing partner in the event and so we did.  This event, March 26th,  will be an all day vendor exhibit featuring morning and afternoon workshops.  I was asked to secure a speaker and I chose Jackie Von Tobel.  Jackie is a seasoned designer, author, artist, illustrator, blogger and product designer with almost twenty years experience.  As fate would have it, she attended the Masion and Objet show with Rebecca!  I have communicated with Jackie only through emails, but I am delighted to have the opportunity to go to dinner with her twice when she comes to town, once as a member of the WCAA, and once as a member of AIDP.  It will be fun to hear both, Jackie and Rebecca, share their Paris experiences.  And once again, it will be neat to meet someone that I know of, but haven't yet met personally. 

If you are a member of the trade, you are welcome to join us for the Spring Window Fashion and Interior Desing Event featuring Jackie Von Tobel.   The morning workshop will is titled "The Latest and Greatest in Window Fashions" and the afternoon session is "How to Achieve a High End Look for Less".  To register follow this link https://events.constantcontact.com/register/eventReg?oeidk=a07e2ov0dh02e903fd3 .

For those of you not in the trade, I will share lots of goodies with you after the event. In the meanwhile, here are some of Jackie's beautiful products;