On the Fringe of Greatness: Agraria's TasselAire

In the March addition of O Magazine, "the O list" featured Agraria's TasselAires as one of the few things Oprah thinks is great. They are right about this, Agraria's TasselAires are playful, chic, and smell divine! It instantly adds glamour to a doorknob and fills a room with one of their seven scents: Riviera Pear, Mediterranean Jasmine, Misson Fig, Golden Pomegranate, Lemon Verbena, Bitter Orange, Balsam, and Lavender & Rosemary. The magazine suggested taking a smell at the Riviera Pear, Lemon Verbena, or Agraria's signature fragrance, Bitter Orange. These door tassels make great gifts and are perfect when you want to add a bit of opulence to a room. Click here to view all of Agraria's great home frangrances available at Sallie home.

Price: $42

Christmas is in the Air with Fraiser Fir Candles

Nothing smells more like Christmas than the smell of a Christmas tree. It's a great smell; crisp, woodsy, and relaxing - just what a house needs. This is why I love the Thymes Frasier Fir scent and why I use it all-year long, not just during the holiday season. Thymes has put out an array of items in this scent including candles, diffusers, sprays, lotions, and cleaners. My favorite from the collection are the many different candles. The Frasier Fir Votive Candle Set is a great gift this holiday. The set comes in a nice gift box filled with three votive candles that are long lasting, for hours of enjoyment. Click here to see all the wonderfully scented Thymes home accessories available at Sallie home.

Price: $14

Waffles Aren't Just a Breakfast Food: Le Jacquard Francais Contre-Jour Waffle Weave Hand Towels

Tea Towels are a great way to add some color to your kitchen. Le Jacquard Francais is a leader in damask linens and most famous for their table linen and pantry linen. New this year are the Le Jacquard Francais Contre-Jour Hand towels. There is a spotlight circle on this linen highlighting wonderful clover shaped leaves. Surrounding this circle is a honey comb waffle weave. This particular pattern comes in three colors: Nasturtium, Rapeseed, and Malt. These hand towels are the perfect house-warming gift to brighten up a kitchen. They are also used as a great accent in a gift basket full of kitchen accessories. Click here to view all of Le Jacquard Francais table linens and pantry linens available at Sallie home.

Make Your House Smell Elegant With Charlotte Moss by Agraria

For years, the famous interior designer from New York, Charlotte Moss has been creating scents to use in her own home and for her clientele. She recently teamed up with Agraria, one of America's finest scent manufacturers. This collection consists of two scents, Left Bank and Virginia, that come in Diffusers, Candles, and a Votive Gift Set. The Left Bank was inspired by Charlotte's trips to Paris and smells of lemongrass and crushed pink peppercorn blossoms with hints of frankincense and patchouli. Virginia is Charlotte's first signature fragrance. It is a boutique of Lily of the Valley, Rose, Jasmine, Peonies, Lilac and Orange Blossoms.

Surely keeping in mind her Interior design background, each Diffuser, Candle and Gift Set is beautifully detailed from the accompaniments to the packaging. These items are great tabletop accessories as well as great home gift ideas for family and friends. Click here to check out more wonderful fragrances by Agraria available at Sallie home.

Price: $55-$105

Roost Magnifying Glass; A Gift for the Nautical Dad

The Roost Wood Spiral Magnifying Glass, coming from the Magellan Navigation Tools collection, is a great birthday gift for the sailor in your life. If he's hung up his sails, it is a beautiful and practical piece that will look great in his office. The wood handle is hand-crafted in a spiral grip; the handcrafting makes each one unique and special. As you get older, the magnifying glass is great for picking up those tiny details that the eye alone can't.

Click here to view other great home gift ideas by Roost Home Furnishing available at Sallie home.

The Perfect Gift for Every Room: Agraria Petite Essence Diffusers

If you are looking for a great house warming gift, try the Agraria Nob Hill Petite Essence Collection. It contains four miniature air diffusers of Agraria's most popular scents, Bitter Orange, Lemon Verbena, Lavender and Rosemary, and Balsam. Each scent comes in a beautiful bottle with an antiqued mirrored tray to set it upon. The home owner can beautifully display a different scent in each room, warmly welcoming new visitors into their home.

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Price: $140

Make Spring Flowers More Beautiful; Anna Weatherley Cache Pot

April Showers bring May flowers. When May arrives, I want to be prepared to fill my house with gorgeous flowers. Flowers do wonders for a room, however, their true beauty is spoiled if they are displayed in that cheap, unattractive, plastic container they came in. There is a simple solution to this problem; cache pots. Cache pots beautifully hold flowers and masks the dirt and/or plastic container. In a cache pot, the flowers can prevail. However, Anna Weatherley's cachepots give the flowers a run for their money.

Anna Weatherley's cache pots, like all of their other fine products, are hand-painted porcelain and come in many different patterns. Their popular cache pots include the Plum Cache Pot, the Floral Butterfly Cache Pot, and the Frog cache pot - all of which are classic elegant Anna Weatherley porcelain. My favorite is the Anna Weatherley Wildberry Red large oval cachepot. This particular cache pot is stunning with it's
intricate detailing in the bright green leaves, the plump red flower buds, and the fluttering blue and yellow butterflies. Any of these cache pots will make a wonderful addition to any table which makes them a prefect gift for anyone.

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Lady Primrose Wonderfully Fragrant, Engravable Mother's Day Gift

If you want to give something special to your mom for Mother's Day, give her Lady Primrose. Lady Primrose creates the finest in bath, body, and home fragrances. They are some of the most luxurious and wonderfully fragrant lotions, gels, soaps, powders, and candles America has to offer. Each product comes displayed in an eco-friendly, reusable crystal container that will look beautiful for a lifetime.

Lady Primrose makes a wonderful gift anytime, but exclusively for a Mother's Day gift, Lady Primrose is offering free engraving. You can engrave on any of their products, including any of the crystal lotion and gel decanters, like the Tryst Bath Gel Decanter, or on the nickle plated lid of the body creme container, which is very suitable for engraving. This offer is available now through April 21st, 2008 and will be ready in time for Mother's Day. Bathe your mother in love with Lady Primrose. Click here to view the Lady Primrose products available at Sallie Home.

Amenities Home Design Silk Quote Pillows - An Adorably Cushy Gift

No matter the occasion or situation there seems to be a fitting quote for it; whether you want to commemorate the moment or make someone laugh. Amenities Home Design knows the beauty of a good quote and that is why they are the makers of the most adorable silk pillows stitched with an array of cute, humorous, and poignant quotes. These silk pillows are a charming touch to any home and make a perfect personal gift.
One of my favorite quotes is "Men may come and go, but jewelery lasts forever." It's cute, clever, and pretty darn close to the truth. This pillow would be the perfect gift to cheer-up a girl during a break-up or just for one that simply loves jewelery. Click here to view more of Amenities Home Design quote pillows available at Sallie Home.

Elias Artmetal Pewter Frames; A Gift for any Occasion

A mainstay gift for any birthday, anniversary, or any other celebration is a picture frame. Who doesn’t love or need another picture frame, especially when it looks as good as an Elias Artmetal frame. Elias frames are individually hand-made using the old world casting techniques and the finest pewter, following their motto; “if it’s worth making, it should be made good forever.”

One of my favorite frames by Elias is a traditional 4x6 Pewter frame with an intricate, royal scroll design on the four corners. This frame makes the perfect gift; the design is universal and works with many decors. It is a hard design not to find beautiful. Elias Artmetal makes a ton of different frames, so if this one doesn’t grab you, I’m sure you’ll be able to find the perfect one for any occasion. Give a gift that will last and is ‘made good forever.’ Click here to view other frames and gift ideas from Elias Artmetal available at Sallie home.

Rustic Decor for the Home by Jan Barboglio

Inspired by old Mexico, Jan Barboglio creates some amazing decorative iron tabletop accessories blended with glass and wood accents for the home. Each piece is personally designed by Jan and is then hand-cut, fashioned, forged and finished with an iron rust patina - creating an incredibly fantastic rustic look. Jan has an original style that is adorned with signature accents. Crosses, birds, and my favorite, flowers are all typical accents in Jan Barboglio's collection.

The Chocolate Rose Clear Glass Hurricane, which features the signature flower, has been one of our store's most popular Jan Barboglio items. The candle holder is a lovely tall glass hurricane with based made of three hand-forged iron roses. This beautiful hurricane makes a perfect gift or a rustic accent for your own home. To see the Jan Barboglio decorative rustic tabletop pieces available at Sallie Home, click here.

Bring Love Into Your Home with Anna Weatherley's Butterfly Watercolor Paintings

The butterfly has many symbolic associations within many cultures. In Chinese culture the butterfly is a symbol of love, in some other cultured it is a symbol of good luck and in others is a symbol for the life cycle. Not only does the butterfly have good symbolism, it is also a beautiful creature. It is no wonder why Anna Weatherley loves to incorporate butterflies into her fine china, porcelain creations.

The good connotations associated with butterflies makes Anna Weatherley's Butterfly Watercolor Paintings a wonderful addition to any home. Like her porcelain, these framed watercolor paintings are so skillfully and meticulously painted that one might mistakenly think these butterflies on he parchment paper were real and simply tacked on. Each picture consists of three painted butterflies on either parchment or black porcelain, coming matted or non-matted, and are complimented by a gorgeous frame.

These beautiful watercolor paintings make the perfect home gift, be it a wedding gift or a house-warming gift for new home owners; it is sure to fill a home with good luck and love. Click here to view all of Anna Weatherley's Watercolor Paintings for your home.

I Want the Ocean Right Now; Beach-Inspired Limoges Porcelain by Raynuad

This spring season, the store has brought in a lot of beach and ocean inspired products. Seeing these products day after day has got me dreaming about collecting seashells, sand between my toes, and basking in the sun. I want the ocean right now! But since the closest body of water to me is the Mississippi, I have to find ways to bring the ocean to me. If you are like me and are landlocked, do what I have done and bring the ocean to your home decor. Raynaud, a top manufacturer of Limoges porcelain, has a couple ocean-inspired items that I love.

The Theo D'or vase by Raynaud is the perfect tabletop accessory for a beachy feel. The vase is made of Raynaud's classic white porcelain and is encapsulated by a giant hand-painted octopus. The octopus come in three very vibrant yet cool, ocean colors; white, turquoise, and red. The colors are so amazing, they make the octopus come alive and pop off the vase. It would make a great gift for anyone with a beach house.


In dinnerware, Raynaud makes Cristobal plates and serving pieces which is available in red, chocolate, and turquoise. In these particular pieces, ocean coral takes over the porcelain to create a bright, delightful sight. It is the perfect accent for any beach house table or ocean dinner.

To view all of Raynaud's collections of dinnerware, giftware and serving pieces, click here.

The Mottahedeh Ring Tray; The Perfect Home Gift

Finding the perfect gift can be an arduous task, especially if you do not know the person very well or they are the type of person who has everything. For these occasions I found myself giving very luxurious but very generic gifts of lotions, candles and frames as gifts. I thought these were low risk, who couldn't love these gifts? Then maybe there are more people out there like my dad, to whom I gave a fragrant lotion to after noticing his dry skin, only to find out afterwards that he hates fragrances; he even uses scent-free antiperspirant. After completely missing the target on this gift, I made it my mission to find a better gift to give for anniversaries, birthdays, fathers’ day, and mothers’ day. I found the perfect gift after searching high and low: a ring tray.

Ring Trays are a very cute and definitely a more personal gift to give to friends and family. My favorite ring trays are by Mottahedeh. These wonderful trays have many great saying and words of wisdom - like “A faithful friend is a strong defense” or “knowledge indeed is a desirable and lovely possession” - surrounded by beautiful decoration. They are the perfect gift not only because they are beautiful but they also serve multiple purposes and can go anywhere in the house. Don’t let the name ‘ring tray’ fool you, these trays can be used for rings, keys, coins, and soap -just to name a few. Or they can simply be used as decoration and a constant reminder of advice to live by.

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Wake Up and Smell the Scents of K. Hall Designs

Everyone wants to have their house smelling and looking great all the time. Unfortunately, many of the aromatic home products may smell wonderful, but they look awful. We have found the solution to this problem with K. Hall Designs aromatic bath, body, and home products; they are the perfect combination of smell and style. K. hall is a local (at least to us), St. Louis based, company that specializes in the fragrance industry and hand-make all their candles, reed diffusers, sheet sprays, perfumes, bath gels and salts, shea butter lotions and triple milled soaps.

Not only are their items are chic and smell great, they are also a socially responsible business. All of their home gift items are minimally packaged and are contained in recyclable/reusable glass. Those wonderful smells are all made with a minimum of 95% natural ingredients, including vegetable based candles.

K. Hall Designs pride themselves on delivering scents that are comforting, familiar, fresh, and real; like their scents Moss, Pomegranate, Jasmine, Lavender, and Milk. Their room diffusers are a great, popular gift for any home. They work well in any room and are a safer alternative to candles when wanting to freshen up the smell of a room. K. Hall products smell naturally great and work even better. stop and smell their scents; click here to view all the K. Hall aromatic bath, body, and home products available at Sallie Home.

Teaposy: the Gift That Blooms Right on Your Table

With cold weather this time of the year, people want something to warm them up, and I found the perfect gift that will do just that. The Teaposy is warmth and beauty wrapped up into one glass teapot that everyone can taste and see. Teaposies' are tea leaves formed into flowering blossoms that bloom when you add boiling water. The clear Teaposy teapot, which comes in many shapes and sizes, like the Daydream Teapot, shows off the delicate blossoms and the wonderful color of the tea. Forget the after dinner coffee and give your guest this brilliant tea. It's beauty and taste like i've never seen before; it is sure to amaze any dinner guest.

The blossoms are made of premium silver needle white tea leaves and natural herbal flowers that come fresh from special tea farms. The white tea is one of the rarest teas and has such an exquisitely soft and delicate flavor. The flavor of the white tea is combined with others to create many other flavors and bloomsto choose from including, "Falling Water," "Lady Fair," "Let It Snow," and "Red Song" Teaposies. Your tea drinking experience doesn't have to end after the first teapot; each Teaposy brews up to 80 ounces of tea and after use, you can keep the Teaposy bloom in a glass container with cold water to enjoy the bloom for a couple more days. Click here to discover the gift of original art and flavor with the Teaposy, available at Sallie Home.

Hearts of Glass: Annie Glass

It's February, love is all around. Valentine's Day is right around the corner and it's the time for love ones to come together, spend time together and enjoy each other's company. While you're spending this time together, there is a perfect dish to accentuate your tabletop this holiday. Annie Glass Heart plates and bowls are guaranteed to steal anyone's heart. The plates and bowls come in a variety of shapes and sizes, making it easy to mix and match and customize any table. The dessert heart shaped plate is a wonderful way to end any meal, especially if you just add some chocolate.

The Annie Glass Heart bowls are versatile; they would be perfect during any meal or as the cutest gift for a friend or loved one. The bowls can be used as decoration for your home; just add some heart-message candies. Or use them all year around as a coin or jewlery dish. Handcrafted in the United States, these dishwasher safe, vibrant bowls and plates will add love to any room. Click here to go directly to Annie Glass's Heart bowls and plates available at Sallie Home.

Varga Art Crystal: Athens Crystal Stemware for the Table

According to wine enthusiasts, the glass directly affects the savor of the wine. To truly appreciate and enjoy wine, one has to understand the role the eye plays in conjunction with the mouth while drinking wine. So I ask, what better way is there to please your eye than to drink from a beautifully crafted Varga 'Athens Collection' wine glass?

Varga Art Crystal's one-of-a-kind stemware is produced by Hungarian craftsman who hand-cut and intricately engrave each glass, turning ordinary crystal into works of art. The Athens pattern illustrates the uniqueness and skill of Varga's stemware that has captured the likes of presidents, royalty, heads of state, and corporations who have started giving Varga Art Crystal as gifts and awards.

The Athens Collection also exhibits another strength of Varga that separates them from the rest; color. The Athens Collection is available, not only in clear but, in Raspberry, Sky Blue, Amber, Cobalt, and Yellow/Green, as well. With all these color choices, it is easy to find the perfect stemware to compliment your dinnerware; making entertaining colorful and elegant at the same time. Click here to go directly to Sallie Home's Varga crystal stemware, barware, and gifts page.

Lady Primrose - A Gift For Any Occasion

There is good reason why, for the last five years, Lady Primrose's bath, body and home fragrances have been a reoccuring gift idea on the Dr. Phil show. It is not just because Dr. Phil's wife adores Lady Primose's signature scent, Tryst, but also because Lady Primrose is truly a luxurious brand that sells extraordinary products for the bath, body and home.

Lady Primrose fragrances - Tryst, Tryst Noir, Necture, Celadon, Royal Extract, Ambience, and Provencal - come in many different forms for your bath and home including gels, salts, lotions, soaps, candles, and room sprays, just to name a few. In addition to being soothing and wonderfully aromatic, Lady Primrose products are beautifully displayed in crystal decanters, jars, and canisters, making their brand a step above the rest.

I can't say this for all of Dr. Phil's advice, but when he says Lady Primrose makes an excellent gift for any holiday, birthday or anniversary, you should definietly take heed. Lady Primrose products are guaranteed to make an elegant statement whether you place it by the bathtub or on your mantel. Click here to go directly to Sallie home's Lady Primrose bath, body and home fragrance page.