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Sebastopol, CA – (November 28, 2009) –
With the country on high alert against the HIN1 flu virus, the timing couldn’t be better for a new instant hand cleanser that is not only effective but stylish, pleasurable to use, great for gift-giving and kind to the environment.
Instant hand cleansers are everywhere these days. Little bottles of it can be found in purses, back packs, cars and pockets. Typically drying and smelly, this practical product was in desperate need of a makeover. Enter the California-based company Dolce Mia Designs.
Made with aloe and organic botanicals to moisturize and nourish skin, Dolce Mia’s new hand cleanser product turns a simple task into the kind of little luxury that puts a smile on your face. Dolce Mia’s formulation cleanses instantly, without water, using the same quick-drying alcohol base as other effective cleansers. But Dolce Mia’s hand cleansers also leave hands feeling soft and smooth, and smelling great too. The product is available in four wonderful yet subtle fragrances, and six tasteful vintage-inspired designs.
With themes focusing on images from the natural world, this personal care necessity is as stylish as it is effective. The artwork is by Jenny Mountjoy, Dolce Mia’s creator and designer. Jenny’s designs manage to be both classic and au courrant. Kids, teens and adults will all find something to love in Dolce Mia’s line.
Indeed, this combination of function and style is what has made Dolce Mia a key beauty line in salons, spas and shops of all kinds across the country. Made locally in Northern California, Dolce Mia’s products are kind to the environment and are not tested on animals.
For more information please call 707-823-4032 or contact Alex Mountjoy at a.mountjoy@dolcemia.com
About Dolce Mia Designs:
Founded in 1995 by the designer Jenny Mountjoy, Dolce Mia Designs manufactures vintage-themed stationery, home-décor and beauty products for the gift and personal care markets. The company is headquartered in Sonoma County, California, north of San Francisco, in an area known for its fine foods and wines and pastoral landscapes. Dolce Mia’s products are packaged with the assistance of Becoming Independent, an organization that makes employment opportunities available to the mentally disabled.
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Dolce Mia Introduces Vintage-Themed Lotions for Gift Giving and Personal Use in Today’s Economy
Sebastopol, CA
Dolce Mia Introduces Vintage-Themed Lotions for Gift Giving and Personal Use in Today’s Economy
Consumers are returning to the simple pleasures, and Dolce Mia Designs of Sonoma County, California is benefiting.
Sebastopol, CA – (June, 30th 2009) –Riding the wave of nostalgia, and appreciation of affordable luxuries, Dolce Mia Designs of Sonoma County California is enjoying a growth year. The company’s line of natural soaps, introduced last fall, captured the imagination of the country and became a best-selling gift item in stores everywhere. Not only are the vintage designs great looking, but the made-in-USA natural soaps themselves are wonderful to use, satisfying the nation’s need for unique gifts that are sure to be appreciated as well as for feel-good products that add pleasure to life.
But where are the lotions? everyone asked. What a perfect match they would be, they said.
Good things take time…and now the lotions are here. Available in fourteen vintage-inspired themes, such as Pin-up, Cowgirl,Ccowboy and Hawaiian, and in eight original fragrances like Pikake, Tuberose, Leathery Western and Sweet Almond, Dolce Mia’s lotion is a thick, creamy shea butter blend infused with organic botanical extracts, vitamin E, almond and sunflower oil.
Estheticians and spa-specialists were consulted on everything from ingredients to pricing to ensure top-quality, affordable luxury for all. The resulting lotion is suitable for the most discerning tastes and the sensitive skinned. In addition to a 12 oz. pump bottle, the company also offers a travel size jar, which with its retro tin lid and wood-grained outer wrapper is itself a triumph of original packaging.
Intriguingly, Dolce Mia’s packaging was designed with customization in mind. The canvas bands, where most of the design appears, are digitally-printed, making it relatively easy to add text, a logo, or even to create entire new designs. Personalized wedding favors, corporate gifts and a fundraising program for volunteer firefighter departments are just a few of the ways that this ease of customization has been explored so far.
Early adopters of Dolce Mia’s beauty line include the iconic Fred Segal in Los Angeles. International buyers are also beginning to take note. Dolce Mia has captured the attention of the Japanese cosmetics market and will soon be distributed throughout Japan.
Dolce Mia’s lotions and full line of beauty products and gift items can be viewed on-line at www.dolcemia.com .
For more information please call 888-929-0440 or contact Alex Mountjoy at www.dolcemia.com
About Dolce Mia Designs:
Founded in 1995 by the designer Jenny Mountjoy, Dolce Mia manufacturers design-based products for the health, beauty and gift markets. Dolce Mia is located in the northern California city of Sebastopol, about an hour and a half north of the Golden Gate Bridge. Alex and Jenny live nearby with their two sons and five sheep. The Mountjoys are fans of wine, cheese, local art, farmers markets and time in the garden.
Sonoma County, CA (PRWEB) January 31, 2009 — Dolce Mia announces today their retail agreement with STUDIO at Fred Segal in Santa Monica, CA for the sale of their new line of natural, made-in-California soaps. Dolce Mia’s soaps feature natural ingredients, original fragrances and unique, vintage-inspired packaging. Under the terms of their retail agreement, Dolce Mia’s soaps were on the shelves as of mid-December, in time for the holiday sales rush.
Dolce Mia Red Hot Girl Soaps
The addition of Dolce Mia’s line amidst the holiday chaos speaks volumes for the sales potential of this stylish soap line. The STUDIO at Fred Segal buyer made the last-minute December order because he wanted to have the soaps on hand before Christmas. He said, “Your soap is my manager’s new favorite product. We love it!” He also thanked the Dolce Mia sales representative for having brought the product to his attention–a rare complement that is a testament both to the uniqueness of Dolce Mia’s line and the quality of the designs.
Available in both bar and pump, Dolce Mia’s soaps features vintage imagery, giclee-printed onto a canvas band in one of 14 vintage styles, in 3 thematic categories–Vintage Western , Vintage Pin-up and Vintage Hawaiian. The bar soap is a moisturizing all-natural glycerin soap. The liquid soap is castile soap, made from plant-derived oils including olive-oil. All soaps are completely biodegradable.
The line also features eight custom fragrances by Dolce Mia’s founder and designer Jenny Mountjoy. Pikake, Vintage Floral Tuberose, Tropical Citrus and Mango Tangerine are among the original fragrances.
About Dolce Mia Designs:
Founded in 1995 by the designer Jenny Mountjoy, Dolce Mia produces vintage-themed stationery, gifts and natural soaps for world markets. Dolce Mia is headquartered in Sonoma County, California, north of San Francisco, in an area known for its farms and pastoral landscapes, small food producers & fine wines.
For more information please call 707-823-4032 or contact Alex Mountjoy at a.mountjoy (at) dolcemia (dot) com
About Jenny Mountjoy:
Born in Chicago, Jenny Mountjoy was raised in Santa Barbara in the 1970’s. She attended UC Santa Cruz, graduating with a degree in Psychology. Jenny went on to live in England, where she worked at a fashion magazine. After returning to the U.S., and following a period of employment in the education department of the Boston Museum of Science, Jenny received her Masters in Arts Education from Stanford in 1992. Jenny worked briefly at a school in San Francisco before starting Dolce Mia in the basement of her San Francisco apartment.
About STUDIO at Fred Segal
For 40 years, Fred Segal has influenced the fashion and beauty industries by launching young designers and new products from around the world, continually setting the trends of tomorrow. It is the fashion and beauty destination of Los Angeles…a place where creativity is always alive and individuality always encouraged. As the premier beauty retailer at Fred Segal, STUDIO’s painstakingly resourced collections of unique personal and home fragrance, state-of-the-art skincare and treatment, hair care, and the finest makeup brands have long made it a destination for those who look for innovation, style and quality.
Dolce Mia’s Kids’ Space Clock was selected by the editor of Pregnancy & Newborn magazine for inclusion in the December, 2008 issue. It appeared on page 114 of the issue, with a collection of other vintage space items by other manufacturers. Dolce Mia Kids’ Space Clock is giclee-printed onto cloth, preserving all the detail and color vibrancy intended by Jenny Mountjoy, the designer. Other items in our Kids’ Space collection include picture frames, photo albums, growth charts, place mats and thank you cards.
Dolce Mia Designs in Pregnancy & Newborn December 2008
PRESS RELEASE
First Annual Dolce Mia Holiday Warehouse Sale
December 13th and 14th, 2008 (Saturday and Sunday)
Occidental, CA
SAVE ON SOAP AND OTHER GREAT GIFTS!
Local designer opens her warehouse for two day holiday event!
Occidental, CA – (November 3, 2008) –Jenny Mountjoy, designer of retro high style gifts and accessories, opens the warehouse of her company, Dolce Mia for a two-day holiday sales event. Come meet Jenny, enjoy cookies and cider, and save up to 70% on soaps, cards, albums, clocks, trays and more.
The Dolce Mia Holiday Warehouse Sale will be held on Saturday and Sunday, December 13th and 14th at the Dolce Mia warehouse (located at 9133 Green Valley Rd., on the corner of Green Valley and Ross), near Graton. The sale will be open from 10am – 5pm on Saturday and 10am – 4pm on Sunday.
Featured at the sale will be Dolce Mia’s new soap line, Fine Soaps of Sonoma County. Natural ingredients, original fragrances and stylish packaging define this new line of natural bar and liquid soaps for the Gift and Personal Care markets. With fourteen styles in three thematic categories—Hawaiian, Pin-up and Western—Dolce Mia’s soaps will appeal to anyone who appreciates great design, subtle fragrances and natural body care products. These soaps are the perfect holiday gift. Buy them from the source, here in Sonoma County.
The Holiday Warehouse Sale will feature seconds, samples and overstocks discounted from 30% to 75% off their original retail prices. Choose from a wide variety of unique gift item and stocking stuffers.
Also featured at the sale will be serving trays by Annie Modica, a Marin-based designer of luxury serving trays, lazy susans and dustbins. By special relationship with Annie, Dolce Mia will be offering terrific deals on seconds and samples of trays that retail for $300 or more in store.
Check out the Dolce Mia Designs website - www.dolcemia.com for a preview of the items and designs that will be available at the sale.
For those who cannot attend the Holiday Warehouse Sale event, the Dolce Mia warehouse will be open through Christmas on the following days: Monday through Thursday 12-4, Friday 12-6, Saturday 12-2. Please drop in.
For more information please call 707-823-4032 or contact Alex Mountjoy at
a.mountjoy@dolcemia.com or www.dolcemia.com
About Dolce Mia:
Founded in 1995 by the designer Jenny Mountjoy, Dolce Mia produces vintage-themed stationery, home-décor and soaps for the gift and bath & body markets. Dolce Mia is headquartered in Sonoma County, California, north of San Francisco, in an area known for its farms and pastoral landscapes, small food producers & fine wines.
About Jenny Mountjoy:
Born in Chicago, Jenny was raised in Santa Barbara in the 1970’s. She recounts a groovy Californian surfer lifestyle that sounds like something out of the movies. Her father was a prominent restauranteur, and also held the lease on the town’s principal music venue, the Santa Barbara County Bowl. Jenny’s upbringing included lots of great food as well as front row seats to every rock and R & B show that came to town.
By the time she went to college, Jenny was ready to leave the party lifestyle behind. She attended UC Santa Cruz, which at the time was in its infancy, and as low-key a university as you could find. Graduating with a degree in Psychology, she went on to live and work in England at a fashion magazine, returning to work in the education department of the Boston Museum of Science. She received her Masters in Arts Education from Stanford in 1992 and worked briefly in a school in San Francisco before starting Dolce Mia in the basement of her San Francisco apartment. The first stores to every carry Dolce Mia products were in San Francisco and in Nantucket, Massachusetts, where the Mountjoys have a summer home.
Today Jenny lives with her husband, two sons and five sheep in Occidental, California. Her work with Dolce Mia reflects her inspiring, charismatic personality, her Californian upbringing and her professional training in the arts. Jenny combines a refined sense of aesthetics with West Coast charm and originality, a deep-rooted modesty with a brilliant sense of humor and great friendliness, and a commitment to a well-balanced life.
PRESS RELEASE
Dolce Mia introduces Fine Soaps of Sonoma County
August 25, 2008
Sonoma County, CA
Lather Up in Vintage Style
Dolce Mia Brings Vintage Design to Natural Soap Line
Sonoma County, CA – (August 25, 2008) –
Natural ingredients, original fragrances and strikingly unique packaging define Dolce Mia’s new line of natural bar and liquid soaps for the Gift and Personal Care markets. With fourteen styles in three thematic categories—Hawaiian, Pin-up and Western—Dolce Mia’s soaps will appeal to anyone who appreciates great design, subtle fragrances and natural body care products.
Produced locally, using traditional family recipes, Dolce Mia’s natural soaps do not contain any harsh detergents or preservatives and are not tested on animals. The soaps are kind to the environment and biodegradable. The bar soap is a moisturizing all-natural glycerin soap. The liquid soap is castile soap, made from plant-derived oils including olive-oil.
For packaging, Dolce Mia wraps each soap in a patterned wrapper, then adds a giclee-printed canvas band for accent. Styles include: Cowgirl, Golden Girl Pin-up, Surfer Boy, Vintage Hawaiian, Wild West and Horsin’ Around. The fragrances harmonize with the themes. Pin Up is made perfect with a Vintage Tuberose floral scent; Hula Girl is completed with a Pikake Flower blend. Soaps are also enriched with additives such as shea butter, farm-fresh goat’s milk or aloe, making each bar as luxurious and beneficial as possible.
Fine Soaps of Sonoma County will be available beginning in September in better salons, groceries, book stores, clothiers and gift shops everywhere.
For more information please call 707-823-4032 or contact Alex Mountjoy at a.mountjoy@dolcemia.com
About Dolce Mia Designs:
Founded in 1995 by the designer Jenny Mountjoy, Dolce Mia produces vintage-themed stationery, home-décor and soaps for the gift and bath & body markets. Dolce Mia is headquartered in Sonoma County, California, north of San Francisco, in an area known for its farms and pastoral landscapes, small food producers & fine wines.
About Jenny Mountjoy:
Born in Chicago, Jenny was raised in Santa Barbara in the 1970’s. She recounts a groovy Californian surfer lifestyle that sounds like something out of the movies. Her father was a prominent restauranteur, and also held the lease on the town’s principal music venue, the Santa Barbara County Bowl. Jenny’s upbringing included lots of great food as well as front row seats to every rock and R & B show that came to town.
By the time she went to college, Jenny was ready to leave the party lifestyle behind. She attended UC Santa Cruz, which at the time was in its infancy, and as low-key a university as you could find. Graduating with a degree in Psychology, she went on to live and work in England at a fashion magazine, returning to work in the education department of the Boston Museum of Science. She received her Masters in Arts Education from Stanford in 1992 and worked briefly in a school in San Francisco before starting Dolce Mia in the basement of her San Francisco apartment. The first stores to every carry Dolce Mia products were in San Francisco and in Nantucket, Massachusetts, where the Mountjoys have a summer home.
Today Jenny lives with her husband, two sons and five sheep in Occidental, California. Her work with Dolce Mia reflects her inspiring, charismatic personality, her Californian upbringing and her professional training in the arts. Jenny combines a refined sense of aesthetics with West Coast charm and originality, a deep-rooted modesty with a brilliant sense of humor and great friendliness, and a commitment to a well-balanced life.
The following are descriptions of the custom fragrance blends used in Dolce Mia’s new Fine Soaps of Sonoma County line. Our fragrance blends were developed exclusively for Dolce Mia to coordinate with and enhance the thematic elements of our soaps. In the vast market of over-perfumed, artificial and predictable smelling soaps, ours stands apart with fragrances that are rich, deep without being overpowering, and unique.
This fruity and refreshing scent could stir up an appetite. It’s the kind of delicious aroma that merits a warning like those found on surfboard Wax: “Do not eat/chew”. The pure, fragrant mango and tangerine are perfectly balanced—full of complex flavor with a tangerine high note and just sweet enough.
Color: mellow sunset
Styles: Surfer Boy, Surfer Girl
A rich undercurrent defines this luscious scent of fruit and flowers. Citrus high notes emphasize freshness, with a hint of coconut to ground our scent in the tropics. It’s a fresh take on the suntan smells we remember.
Color: leaf
Styles: Vintage Hawaiian, Hula Couple
This scent is a fresh twist on tradition, starting with a classic floral blend plus a heady addition of tuberose. A soft, sensual yet subtle floral, this scent is sweetly seductive, reminding us of the attraction of the flower.
Color: petal pink
Styles: Golden Girl, Red Hot, Starlet
The native Hawaiian Pikake flower is used in the traditional Hawaiian lei and is known throughout the world as “Hawaiian night blooming jasmine”. Fresh and uplifting, its smell will stimulate memories of a tropical evening breeze. Lush, sweet, and a bit exotic.
Color: Pikake white
Styles: Hula Girl
This clean outdoorsy scent emanates elements of freshly chopped wood, new leather and lemon verbena. Calming, bold and inspiring, it speaks to those who love a fresh clean confident cleanse.
Color: light saddle
Styles: Western
Simply the most perfect vanilla scent around for the body. Creamy, with a wisp of sweetness, this scent is rich and versatile. A delectable fragrance the whole family will enjoy.
Color: cream
Styles: Horsey Girl
This scent is pure almond with a hint of sweetness. The plush almond aroma is smooth and bright with currant high notes – appealing and fulfilling for all ages.
Color: light Almond
Styles: Howdy, Horsin’ Around
An exquisitely balanced combination of flower and mineral, our ambery lavender scent is loaded with both vitalizing and calming aromatic qualities. Loved by lavender purists, this scent also has universal appeal, with its added depth of rich amber notes.
Color: sunrise pink
Styles: Sittin’ Cowgirl, Shootin’ Cowgirl
Baby memory books make a terrific new-baby gift, and Dolce Mia’s new Storyline Baby Memory Books are innovative, original and unique.
Our Storyline baby memory books create a fantasy world, page by page. Beginning at birth and ending at first birthday, using metaphor and inspiration we invite you to weave your own baby’s life into the story, with photos and text. Playful characters and beautiful vintage imagery make our baby keepsake books fun to create and fun to read, for parents and the once-baby alike. You’ll find yourself pulling them off the shelf to enjoy over and over.
A unique, fun and flexible baby keepsake book.
• Inspiring storyline brings out your creativity and lets you easily a unique keepsake.
• Fan fold page style is built to last and easy to browse.
• Heavyweight, artists-quality matte card stock is easy to write on and perfect for pasting pictures.
• Includes 10 photo pages, which hold 40 4×6 photos, and you can add more.
• Library-style book plate offers a classic and creative way to record baby’s name and birth date.
• Brilliant canvas cover and spine assure this baby memory book will stand out in any bookcase.
• Grosgrain fabric binding and cover is elegant and made to last.
• Expandable format allows you to add the information you want to add, and leave out that which you want to leave out.
• Enrich your memories and continue beyond the first year with add-ons for holidays, special occasions and second and third birthdays.
• Coordinates with other Dolce Mia decor and stationery items, including clocks, picture frames and albums, place mats, invitations, thank you’s, wall art and growth charts.
Includes:
• 12 storyline pages, from birth through first birthday.
• 10 acid-free photo pages, which hold 40 4×6 photos, and you can add more.
• DVD sleeve for your videos.
• Keepsake pouch.
• Giclee-printed canvas cover and spine.
• Cloth bound album.
Features:
• Acid-free pages
• Archival inks
• Superior quality
• Hand-crafted construction
Measurement:
8 in. x 9 in. x 2 in.
To read what other customers are saying about our products, click here: Customer Reviews
Founded in 1995 by the designer Jenny Mountjoy, Dolce Mia manufacturers vintage theme products for the gift, stationary and personal care markets. We are headquartered in Sonoma County, about an hour and a half north of San Francisco. Made in the USA.
PRESS RELEASE - Sebastopol, CA
Dolce Mia Designs Introduces Imprintable Party Invitations
Vintage theme invitations can now be pre-printed on-line
Sebastopol, CA - (April 25, 2008) - Having weathered the advent of the age of e-mail, stylish printed party invitations are still the way to announce your cocktail party, bar-b-q, wedding, baby shower or child’s birthday party.
Sure, you can send an e-vite. But it just doesn’t have the class of a fine printed invitation.
But handwriting invitations can take time, especially when your guest list is long. The answer is on-line pre-printing. At Dolce Mia Designs’ web site, you choose your vintage theme baby shower invitation, train birthday invitation, cowboy invitation, or one of 13 other styles, enter your event details and Dolce Mia will print them for you, printing right onto the 120 lb card stock of the fill-in invitations, and deliver them to your door.
Our invitation measure 5″x 7″ and are printed in the USA, on 16 point (125 lb.) fine art uncoated card stock. They come 10 cards to a pack, with envelopes, and are packaged in a clear acetate box, banded with a strip of real artists canvas, which is hand-cut to shape.
For more information please call 707-823-4032 or contact Alex Mountjoy at
a.mountjoy@dolcemia.com or visit us at www.dolcemiastore.com
About Dolce Mia Designs:
Founded in 1995 by the designer Jenny Mountjoy, Dolce Mia Designs manufacturers design-based products for the gift market. We are headquartered in Sonoma County, about an hour and a half north of San Francisco. Nearly all of our products, from frames, albums, clocks and wall art, to stationery, are printed in the USA