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They're designers, artists, and the interiors-obsessed. Your home is where their hearts are.
Deanna Sellers NuMe Natural Soap
Deanna Sellers started making NuMe natural soaps to safeguard her growing family against chemicals and mystery ingredients in commercial bars. Send a signature scent to her Woodstock home kitchen, and she'll whip up a batch of custom skin-softening bars just for you. Read more
Paradise Found
NuMe Natural Soap
The last oils you rubbed on your skin were of the Hawaiian Tropic variety. There were top notes of artificial coconut.
Alas, no exotic beach locale was involved.
Deanna Sellers, creator of essential oil-based NuMe soaps, slathers on only the good stuff.
Sellers is one part chemist (who knew it was so scientific to make soap?), one part hippie (she started making bars for her kids’ sensitive skin), and one part fragrance tailor (take her four ounces of an essential oil, and she’ll create a few dozen bars of your signature scent).
She mixes and stamps batches in her Woodstock kitchen. Our favorite scents are rosemary eucalyptus, lavender vanilla, and honey almond.
Your own lathered paradise. No passport required.
NuMe Natural Soap (770-366-0793 or numenaturalsoap.com). Available at The Broadwell Cottage, 765 Mid Broadwell Road, Milton (770-777-0444); Davonshire Home and Garden, 1430 Dresden Drive, suite 200, Brookhaven (404-437-7826).
Kirk Moore Kirklands' Wood Garden Protecting Potions
Years ago, garden designer and historian Kirkland Moore began creating all-natural products for body and home by adapting heirloom recipes. Today, his potions keep unwanted garden critters away naturally. Read more
Come Out, Come Out, Wherever You Are
Kirklands’ Wood Garden Protecting Potions
A rose is a rose is a rose. Until it’s a puncture wound and a wrecked manicure. Then it’s a @$%^&** piece of $$$%% of a rose.
But you digress. Hopefully just long enough to pick up Kirklands’ Wood gardener care products.
Union Point-based farmer/mixer Kirk Moore applies skills he learned as a Colonial Williamsburg gardener to growing and bottling garden pest deterrents that are safe to flora and fauna alike.
If the names don’t give ’em away, the results will. No Does’s dehydrated egg solids and white pepper alter deer feeding patterns for up to three years; Slug-go’s mix of subterranean minerals keeps things clear of peskies; and arnica-based repair lotions and waterless cleansers work like a charm just when you’re ready to give your garden the finger.
And we don’t mean your green thumb.
Available at Madison Gardener, 144 Academy Street, Madison (706-486-4630); online at smithsbathandhome.com.
Miguel A. Moreno Cushion Maker and Upholsterer
Upholstery pro Miguel A. Moreno has beautified fabrics and rooms all over the world. Along the way, he picked up a side gig making pillows, cushions, and drapes – and is dazzling clients all over town. Read more
The Pillow Person
Cushion Maker and Upholsterer Miguel Moreno
Hiya, sweet cheeks. Couchy, here.
Where do you shove off to all the time? Someone else’s floor? Worse, a papasan? You know this loveseat gets lonely without you.
Tell me what I’ve done to make you stray. I’ll fix it. I’ll change. Don’t believe me? Ask slipcover, cushion, and upholstery maestro Miguel Moreno. He’s worked all over the world, from Ritz-Carltons in Jamaica to Sutra Lounge in Midtown’s upcoming relaunch.
Whatcha into, baby? Silk walls? Synthetic finishes for easy living? Easy cleanup? We can make it work. If it’s custom pillows you want, Moreno will back flimsier fabrics to make them last longer or send you packing to sources like his own studio or Lewis & Sheron to find fabrics that tickle your nether regions.
I’d hate for us to part ways.
Available at Custom Slipcover and Upholstery, 2969 East Ponce de Leon Avenue, Decatur (404-377-9521); Miguel Moreno (404-643-5500 or customslipuph@mindspring.com).
