Dean & Deluca

To help you out with cooking your Indian recipes for Diwali, check out one of our favorite stores, Dean & Deluca! You can order your spices online and have them delivered in time to make your festival foods. We have selected key spices that you will need for Jalebi and Gulab Jamun, which are featured in this week’s recipes. Enjoy!

 

Wedding Car Decals

Sequoia Productions prides itself on carefully considering every detail of an event. Making an entrance and departing in style are important aspects of your event and will be remembered by your guests for years to come.

Incorporate custom car decals to your getaway car to add charm and romance right to the very end. These decals are custom and removable, so you may even use them if you are renting a unique car or limousine for the big day. It’s these unique touches that will transform a wedding day from ordinary to extraordinary. Have fun choosing yours!

Our Favorite: Safety Behind the Scenes

For California residents, Earthquake safety is always in the back of our minds. However, over the past few months the country has seen that this is far from a West-Coast only issue. Sequoia Productions was recently introduced to the +Grab And Go Vest+™ by a client and we were so impressed that we decided to share it with our readers. This product, while not the typical profile of an event sponsor, is an item that could prove to be life-saving behind the scenes. The vest contains the 10 most essential items you need in any emergency.

Founder Stanley Isaacs created the product when he realized that an old vest he used when managing an onsite project proved to be the perfect place to store emergency supplies. When faced with an actual earthquake, he and his wife were able to access everything they needed right in the vest.

The +Grab And Go Vest+™ is a fully functioning survival kit that can be used in the event of a natural disaster. Lightweight, only 4 lbs, the vest itself keeps essential items at your fingertips such as a flashlight, whistle, water and water purification tablets, an emergency survival blanket, an energy bar, an AM/FM radio, tools,  and a first aid kit. It’s perfect to keep in the trunk of your car, where you could be stranded away from necessary supplies. As we move towards the holidays, this could be a life-saving gift for family, loved ones, or your staff. You can purchase your own +Grab And Go Vest+™ at www.grabandgovest.com.

Our Favorite: The Pan Am Flight Bag

pan am girls with logo and bag

When Pan Am first started flying it represented the height of luxury. We still covet the Pan Am bag that stewardesses carried as part of the uniform. We can’t think of a more perfect bag for a weekend away, or as a giveaway for a special guest at your viewing party.

Thankfully, the launch of the show has inspired the reissue of these bags. You can purchase them online.  We also love these Pan Am luggage tags as a smaller gift to offer everyone who attends your party.

Happy flying!

Custom Vintage Travel Photo Napkins

When we started planning our Pan Am viewing party we learned that Sequoia Productions’ Creative Communications Director, Olivia Yu, had a very personal connection to Pan Am. Olivia’s mother immigrated from China to the United States and arrived here on a Pan Am flight. Above is a picture of her mother with her family in 1964, just off the plane and about to embark on a whole new life.

We loved this photo and this story so much that it was the perfect inspiration for Our Favorite this week: vintage travel photo cocktail napkins! Raid your family’s travel photo archive and then use a service like foryourparty.com to create custom napkins or coasters. Ask family members if they have any Pan Am memories and you may find a piece of family history yourself!

Dinair Makeup Airbrush Kit

Our favorite product this week is Dinair’s Airbrush makeup and facial tanning kit. Dinair used this exact kit to spray the exciting designs on all the waiters and aerialists at the Emmys Governors Ball! We love this kit because it is so versatile. Not only can it create incredible ambiance at a high profile event, like the Ball, it is also a great product for at home use.

Dinair showed how easy it was to use the kit to spray on the black and white “mod illusions” designs in this week’s Spotlight On: Dinair post. They also explained that it is simple and fun to use the kit for everyday makeup as well. We’re so excited to announce that when we told Dinair how much we loved this product, they offered one to us to give away to one of you!

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