Bellasymphony

Monday, August 31, 2009

First Friday Downtown Bakersfield


Am getting ready for a great First Friday Downtown this Friday, Sept 4th~! Stop by CHARISMA for a glass of Champagne from 5:00 to 8:00...then stroll through the boutiques, shops and galleries Downtown. Gallery openings LATINATION at Metro and ONE at ...Surface Gallery, our neighbor, ...for their first year Anniversary~!! Start the Labor Day weekend off right~!!!


For those of you that may not know, CHARISMA is my store at 1925 H Street in Bakersfield CA. Check out our website at www.charisma-boutique.com

Pink Magazine

Just found out about this great new magazine~!! http://www.pinkmagazine.com/index.html

Sunday, August 30, 2009

Monique ~ You are SO Coquette




A friend of mine inspired this new Oilcloth Tote. She is an interior designer and wanted totes to carry her clients portfolios in and asked me if I could make them. Well...of course...I had to Coquette it up a bit...but she can handle it~!!

Inspiration from friends and clients sometimes are the very best designs~!! This bag would be great as a shopping bag, beach tote, diaper bag....so many thing~!!
Thanks Monique...

Sweet Little Coquette all in a Row


Here are some of the new Coquette Blankets that I did. Love this new design~!! New Minkee prints are great and little ones are gonna love there. Great for baby shower gifts, baby gifts and big enough for a toddler to use.

A Good Days Work


Great new blankies~!! As you can see I was in my "zone" yesterday~! Some great new ribbons totally inspired me...blankets today.. Let's see what I can come up with~!!

Saturday, August 29, 2009

Coffee & Cupcake Blankies


Saturday morning, a cup of coffee and and working on cuddly Minkee blankies....Babies love them and they are fun to put together coming up with new combinations of colors, patterns, & ribbons. This is supposed to be working....but it doesn't feel like it at all~!!
Love the new cupcake ribbons....too cute~!!

Friday, August 28, 2009

Sweet Dream Time

Got a great message from a good friend who is having her second child and I am doing a few things for her for her nursery and new little one, Elena. I did the bedding for her first child and she is going to use it again for her new little girl. She wanted a pillow with Elena's name on it and of course, I had to Coquette it up a bit.

Since babies can be messy, the outside is removable and can be easily washed. Of course, I could not just do a solid inside pillow...so multi colored polka dots did the trick on this one. Love it....and hope Elena does too.

This is how great new things end up in my line. A request for something, especially someone special, always make my mind start to whirl.










Thursday, August 27, 2009


Ma Petite Coquette....how did I get here....


Well, it's a bit of a long story, so I will give you the condensed version. I started designing handbags and other items under the name Coquette Custom Handbags about 6 years ago. It was during a time in my life that I really needed a creative outlet and through the grace and support of many...the handbags were a huge success. Hopefully they brought alot of joy to people and helped them express their inter-creativity through me by allowing people to design their own bags. Coquette ran it's course, as things do and towards the end of my reign as Mme. Coquette (sounds a bit like I owned a brothel~!), I started designing diaper and stroller bags and developing Ma Petite Coquette, which was a line of baby bags, blankets and other accessories for little ones.


Recently, people have started to ask me for baby items blankets, wonderful blankies, and other of my little creations, which has inspired me to start making these items again and concentrate on Ma Petite Coquette. This has been a very inspiring and wonderful experience for me and also hopefully for the dozens of little ones and Mommies that I have made things for over the past couple of months.


So here we are in the age of blogs, facebook and twitter...which it seems unbelievable did not really exist or were in their infancy a few years ago when I was marketing Coquette and Ma Petite Coquette on-line. These new networking sites have also energized me to pick things up again. You can become a fan on my facebook page by following this link:


So stay tuned and I will be bringing you some of my new designs and reminding you of some old favorites too.....


Maitecha