Los Angeles
Sheila M. Lehman -- Gifts & Decorative Accessories, 5/1/2001
At the Stephen Young showroom, LA Mart (LAM) 830, some of the new products include Favorite Soap Co. sea salt scrub, effervescent bath powder, handmade soap, bath tranquilizer, and travel packs in six rich fragrances ranging from $8 to $36 retail. Jaqua Girls' "Top -To -Toe" spa kits offer luxurious body treatments from exotic spas around the world. They retail from $18 to $35. Australia Steamboat is a diverse personal care line, retailing from $12 to $30, that features scents such as spearmint, cantaloupe, moss, and strange fruit. And The Thymes Limited introduces the Sleep Well personal care collection, which features a relaxing blend of rose oil, chamomile, and valerian at $3 to $50 retail.
At Intrada, LAM 807, there are beautiful and colorful ceramic roosters and hens that are handcrafted and hand-painted in Italy and retail from $98 to $499. The handsome Safari Collection dinner set features hand-painted tigers, giraffes, and other wild animals. It retails from $20 to $99.
Sterling Lines, LAM 500, presents several new lines. Hill Design Garden creates decorative woodenware and vitrified creamware pottery pieces for indoor gardening with retail prices from $9 to $50. HKH International specializes in gros point and petit point handmade pillows and Christmas stockings featuring classical art images, botanicals. and dogs, retailing $5 to $110, as well as an impressive selection of silk tassels. Audrey Jeanne's Expressions presents framed sentiments with touching images; retail prices range from $11 to $65. Bouquet Ents.' sculptured candles, painted tin and wooden signs, and other gift items feature the art of Judy Buswell, Deb Strain, and Suzan Riggsbee White; the collection is priced from $12 to $40 retail. Jessica's Garden offers fountains, stepping stones, clocks, sundials, thermometers, and plaques cast from original sculptures; they retail at $6 to $95. JoAnn Marie Designs has an heirloom collection of jumbo Christmas stockings that are hand-embellished with bells, beads, ribbons, and applique, retailing from $130 to $150.
Robert Snoddy & Associates, LAM 969, has the diverse Houston Intl. collection of garden and decorative accessories, including topiaries, wicker baskets, galvanized steel gardeners' essentials, and ceramic, mosaic or wooden planters; the line is retail priced from $5 to $190. Caramba produces handcrafted ceramic windchimes in 130 designs, including leaves, fish, and parrots, as well as charming garden bells and birdhouses, retailing at $10 to $80. Among the other fine lines available are Claycraft fiberglass planters in classic designs, and Connecticut Coppersmiths' garden dragonflies of stainless steel with bronze mesh wings and iridescent glass eyes.
At Joanne & Co., LAM 820, M&S Creations' hand-painted ceramics are personalized for children, grandparents, teachers, babies, and weddings. They retail from $9 to $100. Originals by Debra are hand-painted acrylic artwork for kids, mounted on your choice of fabric and wood frame, with retails from $50 to $140.
Sales Producers, LAM 451, presents the Gallerie 2010 line of decoupage wall clocks, handmade cork boards, personal care products, stationery, Christmas items, Roger Laborde placemats, and Sharon Jervis framed art, journals, and memo pads that retail from $5 to $60. Kay Dee Designs features aprons, terry towels, oven mitts, quilted totes, towel sets, and placemats from licensed artists. Lava Ents.' specialty candles include tea light lamps, sculpted and hand-painted animal pillars, Betty Crocker cake-scented candles, coffee-scented pillars, and candles with artwork that glows as they burn; the line retails at $7 to $15. Colonial Candle of Cape Cod oval glass candles come in 21 rich fragrances, including peony, cucumber melon, tulip, and spiced cookies, and retail from $1.50 to $20. Quality Artworks has a new Homeword Accessories division that produces Soft Notes, which are stuffed fabric doorknob hangings featuring uplifting sayings, and decorative wood boxes, frames and table clocks with 77 sayings; the retail range is $8 to $28. And Creative Imagination has a charming collection of Mary Engelbreit lunch boxes, wooden blocks, ceramic drawer pulls, enamelware, magnetic picture frames, magnets, pincushions, magnetic dolls, scrapbook products, and more, priced from $3 to $44 retail.



















