House and Home

What a treat to come back from a trip to New York City and read the article on our Montreal pad. We were really thrilled to be a part of such an amazing magazine. Thanks! Pick up a copy of the February Issue of Canadian House and Home or read our feature here.

We'd also like to take this opportunity to thank En Route magazine and LDB Interior Textiles Magazine for their features on OM home late last year. We were so excited to have our table linens flying all over the world in Air Canada's En Route magazine, check it out here.

We also really enjoyed being interviewed by the lovely and super friendly Candace Sheppard over at LDB. The article was awesome and we were thrilled to be in the same article as so many talented people! See for yourself right here.

Happy New Year!

Happy New Year from all of us at OM home!

2007 was an amazing year for us... two high profile tradeshows, almost 40 pieces of press, over a dozen new stores, exceeding our sales targets. WOW, we feel incredibly fortunate to have such an amazing opportunity to build our business. We're truly living our dreams!

We're even more excited for 2008 and incredibly thrilled to finally have our bedding line (almost) ready to go. The design will be similar to the ceiling design from our old apartment except more patterned. Needless to say, we think it looks pretty awesome. We'll be sure to post preview pictures up as soon as we can!



We're also super excited to be featured in February's issue of Canadian House and Home magazine. It's a whole spread on our old apartment and will be a great keepsake for us. I'll be sure to post the pictures as soon as it hits newstands! Now if we only had time to get our new place looking good...

We're also getting ready for the NYIGF tradeshow from February 1-5, come visit us at booth 5506 in the Handmade section!

Stay tuned for a sneak preview of our new line in the coming weeks!

Design*Sponge 2007 Gift Guide

Grace has been posting some awesome gift guides over at Design*Sponge. I was checking out all her lovely finds and was pleasantly surprised to see our Mullen Street Pillow listed in her Buy Handmade Gift Guide. How sweet!



Be sure to check it out and buy handmade this year!

We're Hiring!

Do you live in Toronto?
Do you need some extra cash?
Do you need flexible hours?

We're expanding!

We're looking for a skilled, detail-oriented, friendly and driven Assistant for help in our studio, located in the Riverdale area, just east of downtown.

Flexible hours about 5-10 hours/week to start, can go upto 20 hours if we like your work and as the business grows. This is a great opportunity for students or budding entrepreneurs who want to learn how to run a small business... a paid internship!

We're very close to public transportation, TTC on the corner, Broadview Subway up the street. Opportunity to bring work home.

Position includes but is not limited to:
Ironing Products
Sewing in Fabric Tags
Fixing Zippers and seams
Preparing shipments
Building our customer lists (get paid to surf)
Preparing Press Kits (cropping, assembling)

Tell us about you! Please send us an email with some information about you and your work. Photographs of sample work will be a plus. There will be a short proficiency sewing and assembling test onsite.

Compensation is ~ $8/hr!
Flexible start date!
Learn how to run a small business!
Serious replies only!

Happy Thanksgiving!

Fresh snow on the ground, a frozen chicken thawing on the counter, it must be thanksgiving.... in Canada!

The one holiday Canada and the US don't celebrate at the same time (Canada is colder, therefore it harvests sooner, go figure) is the one holiday the Roy family celebrates religiously, we're religious about non-religious events, see?

So this year, we're unfortunately unable to make it south of the border for turkey basting and mashed potatoes (my job), stuffing (my brother's job), salad (my cousin's job) and the other 10+ dishes (my mother's job, we just do some token work at the end for praise, but she actually gets up early and does everything else). No men vs women Celebrity or fighting for the best spot on the couch for that tryptophan induced nap, no stuffing our faces with pumpkin or pecan pie even though we're full and the worst of it all -- no leftover (organic) turkey sandwiches! MAN!

Well turkeys, I'm going to shove my chicken in the oven. Happy Thanksgiving America, I miss you!

ps Can someone pick up a copy of the NY Daily News Monday edition? I hear OM home might be featured as part of Poppy's Handmade Market!

OM home Inventory Clearance Sale

We're still reeling from the fabulous press we received from HGTV a couple weeks back. What a thrill to say, "As seen on HGTV!" We're also super excited for our new line of bedding, to be launched in time for the NYIGF next February. We just finished the new designs and love, love, love them!

With all this activity, we're clearing out some inventory to make room for all the new goodies!! From $15-$65, that's up to 50% off on select items from now until the end of November!

With the holidays approaching, OM home products make great gifts for your co-workers, friends and family with a sense of style and social responsibility! All of our products come with a little pamphlet detailing the story behind our line. Just in time for the holiday season, these are gifts that give back AND are easy on the wallet!

Mullen Street Line
This is one of our most popular products. We've reissued the Mullen Street Pillows in linen and have discontinued the white and natural varieties. 14"x14" or 18"x18", 100% cotton, hand embroidered, hidden zipper closure, solid fabric backing, poly fill insert. Pillows originally $90, now only $65 and small pillows originally $80, now only $40!

Mustang Pillow
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White Pillow
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Natural Pillow
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CCFC Line
CCFC is our signature line and has been featured in several publications across North America. The Lavender pillows themselves can be seen in Style at Home! This color has been very popular at OM home but we're discontinuing the lavender color entirely to make room for a bolder shade of purple.

Lavender Bolster
12"x16", 100% cotton, machine embroidered, hidden zipper closure, solid fabric backing, poly fill insert. Originally $55, now only $30!
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Lavender Pillows
18"x18" or 24" x 24", 100% cotton, machine embroidered, hidden zipper closure, solid fabric backing, poly fill insert. Pillows originally $70, now only $50 and floor pillows originally $90, now only $70!
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Lavender Placemats
15"x15", 100% cotton, machine embroidered, solid fabric backing. Originally $25, now only $15!
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Lavender Napkins
20"x20", 100% cotton, machine embroidered, solid fabric backing. Originally $25, now only $15!
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New Market Line
We love the amazing detail behind the New Market line, the embroidery is exquisite! We sold out of this line several times throughout the year and we're sad to see this one go. We think the new color will be pretty great too, change is good!

18"x18" and 24"x24", 100% cotton, machine embroidered, hidden zipper closure, solid fabric backing, poly fill insert. Pillows originally $70, now only $50 and floor pillows originally $95, now only $75!

This makes a great gift for a teenager!

Lavender Pillow
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Tolly Club Line
We're revamping this line to be more eco-friendly and to include bedding! We're clearing out the old inventory to start "fresh". This line will find it's way into the hands of readers all across the globe in next month's issue of En Route Magazine!

Tolly Pillows
18"x18", 100% cotton, machine embroidered, hidden zipper closure, solid fabric backing, poly fill insert. Originally $70, now only $40!
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Tolly Placemats
14"x20", 100% cotton, machine embroidered, solid fabric backing. Originally $25, now only $15!
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Tolly Napkins
20"x20", 100% cotton, machine embroidered, solid fabric backing. Originally $25, now only $15!
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OM home in Silent Auction

It's that time of year again and I'm happy to announce that OM home has once again donated some of our product line to help a wonderful school located in New York, the East Harlem School.

Located in East Harlem, a poverty stricken area of New York where many talented youth are unable to receive the education they deserve, EHS provides a unique program for students.

This is the second year OM home has donated items to their annual benefit and silent auction, last year we had multiple bids and the winning bid was over $300.

We're so thrilled to be a part of this and we hope this year will be even better!