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| Desiree Patterson, GBS Linens |
Nicknames: Dez
Company and
established date: GBS Linens, 1984
Hometown (where
are you from and where are you now)?
Orange, CA / same
Position and job
title: Account
Executive
Credentials/Mini
Bio about yourself: A degree in graphic design from
the Fashion Institute of Design & ; Merchandising helps Desiree understand,
envision and complete a bride’s unique vision. She has worked with the
industry’s top wedding vendors to design trend-setting tabletops and wedding
looks that have appeared in wedding and design publications. Her attention to
detail and sense of style have helped many industry professionals and couples
create beautiful and unique environments.
Fam Bam: Love my little
family! They are all crazy and that is
why we get along so well. I have an
amazing mother that is my biggest cheerleader and greatest friend. I absolutely love the babies in my life – my
nephew, my niece, and of course my daughter, who’s my little miracle. And the cherry on top of it all…Husband (my
love of my life).
1.
Tell
us 7 Random Things about yourself (hidden talents and really RANDOM jazz about
yourself)?
a. I LOVE food and trying new cuisines.
b. I have an obsession for fonts. I cannot stop downloading free fonts that I
like.
c. I totally have OCD.
d. I have a random inspiration book that is a collection of
various images, fonts, designs that I like and hate.
e. I almost got my massage license, was only 500 hours away.
f.
I play with tabletop
items (china, glassware, flatware, etc) in stores and take photos of different
setups, just because.
g. I started my first business when I was 9 years old.
2.
Favorite
Holiday Scent: Gingerbread
3.
Favorite
Holiday Activity: watching holiday movies and
going to Disneyland
4.
Favorite
Holiday Tradition: Going to our church’s
Christmas performance service
5.
Favorite
Holiday Food: peppermint bark and hot chocolate
6.
Favorite
Holiday Memory: Husband and I sponsoring a family for the holidays and
delivering the gifts on Christmas morning,
7.
Favorite
Holiday Present ever received and given:
Received – my cat, Prince. I got him as a newborn and he is 11 years old
now. Given – toys to a boy that didn’t
have any.
8.
Gift
you wish you receive this year? New MAC laptop.
9.
Favorite
Perfume: Chloe
Eau de Parfum
10.
What
are the flowers, herbs and trees that you can’t live without (Because we need plants to breath)?
a. Flowers: Dahlias, Peonies, Spider Mums
b. Herbs: Rosemary
c. Trees: Oak
11.
What
is your secret beauty regiment?? Please
do share! LOL,
if I shared it wouldn’t be secret. Let’s
just say I am in the bathroom for an hour in the morning and an hour in the
evening.
12.
CLOSET
RAID! What types and brands of clothing
do you own? Aka, we want to know your fashionista style:
a. Types: random
b. Brands: alittle bit of everything
13.
How do you keep
them organized?: I refer back to the fact that I am OCD. By style/type.
14.
Tell
us your favorite clothing item (keep it PG please)? Shoes!!!
15.
Home
and Kitchen Furnishing: traditional American
with a modern country twist, with a splash of vintage amber pieces.
16.
Publications
in your rack other than the wedding kinds:
Bon Appetite, Food & Wine, Inc Magazine,
Better Homes & Gardens.
17.
Book
Collections in your library: Oodles of cookbooks & design books, Edgar Allen Poe,
Children’s books
18.
What
would you do with $100 million dollars? (No Judgment here!)
a. What your conscience would do?: Take care of my mother
b. What you’d probably do?: Give it my financial advisor to
invest. I’m such a nerd.
19.
Vacay
Spot, hit us with good travel ideas, or maybe your tranquil retreat
center? (It’s a stressful working world
yah’ know!) New
York with a walk in Central Park in the fall.
20.
How
do you relax? Spending time with Husband and my
daughter.
21.
Your
SPOT ! What is your favorite spot? Any coffee shop? Restaurants? Places of
Interest? Old Orange Circle. Charlie Palmers, TART, Pizzeria Mozza,
Rutabeorgz.
22.
Fill
in the blank with a technology item: I
feel naked without my ________? My phones, yes I have two.
23.
What
is your rendezvous food and drink? And
what must your pantry/fridge have, can’t live without food/drink item? Cheese (Havarti, Brie, Guoda, Manchego) with crackers and
apples. Arnold Palmer.
24.
Music
playlist essentials : Country, Jazz, Hip Hop
25.
What
songs stuck in your head from this season? All
I want for Christmas, Come All Ye Faithful
26.
What’s
in your Fave Channel list, DVR or movie collection? Chopped, Once
Upon A Time, Cooking Channel, Food Network, tons of movies
27.
Favorite
people and public figure: My daughter
28.
Any
regrets in life? There will always be regrets,
but I wouldn’t be me without them.
29.
What
would you change or try to regain about yourself? Change
– the ability to relax, sometimes I wish the wheels would slow down for a
break.
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