What fun to have my new book, Pretty Pet-Friendly: Easy Ways to Keep Spot’s Digs Stylish and Spotless, featured in Katie Knorovsky’s great Washington Post Express article about high-style pet accessories, including the Crypton Throver! The book was also featured in Jill Sell’s terrific story on pet-friendly decor for the Cleveland Plain Dealer!
I had one goal when authoring Pretty Pet-Friendly: to encourage shelter-animal adoption by helping animal lovers with simple, easy-to-follow tips to keep a neat, orderly, and above all, chic “animal house.”
Of course, Crypton figures prominently in the book. And to drive my point home, when styling the cover shoot, I arranged to have an icon of chair design custom-upholstered in Crypton Suede “Icing”: Milo Baughman’s 989 Lounge Chair, originally designed in the 1960s, is still manufactured by Thayer Coggin, renowned furniture makers in North Carolina, USA.
Besides sporting a stylish, sumptuous fabric cover that’s pretty impervious to stains, moisture, odors, and bacteria (thank you, Crypton), this pretty, pet-friendly chair sits on a metal frame – which makes it claw- and jaw-proof to boot. As for Icing’s pale purplish-periwinkle-blue hue, it’s so chic that my publisher’s graphic-design team chose it as the accent color of the inside pages!
How do you keep your “animal house” chic and clean? Tell us in the comments.
Crypton’s Tails O’ Terror: show us your pet’s costume!
As you fashion the perfect Halloween costume for yourself, don’t leave your pets out of the fun! Crypton wants to see your stylish pets in costume this Halloween. Share photos of your growling, howling pets at Crypton’s Tails O’ Terror Flickr pool Tails O’ Terror (you’ll need to join Flickr to add your photos – but it’s free and only takes a moment). You can also e-mail your pictures to lifeoncrypton [at] gmail.com if you’d prefer – we’d be happy to post them to the Flickr pool for you!
Check out our own Molly ‘Bumble’ B. – She is ready to trick-or-treat!
Be sure to check out all of the cackling cats and devilish dogs – and to join the fun, add your own photos to Crypton’s Tails O’ Terror Flickr pool: Tails O’ Terror.
Your photo may be chosen by Julia Szabo to be featured here on the blog in the coming weeks! Keep checking back for updates as we showcase the best of Crypton’s Tails O’ Terror!
For professional wakeboarder Dan Wrightington of Eugene, Oregon, protecting the pristine white interior of a boat as sweet as the Malibu Wakesetter
www.malibuboats.com is a priority.
On weekend outings with friends along the Willamette River, Dan and his wife Darla bring onboard one or both of the Crypton Throvers.
they share at home with their pretty pit bull, Kaya.
Besides serving as a functional barrier against everything from spilled drinks to rubbed-off sunscreen, the Melrose Licorice pattern also brings a splash of style on deck that competes bravely with the river’s majestic scenery.
At high noon, the Screen Saver Popcorn pattern handily doubles as a fabric sunscreen: the suede side is smooth against the skin, and the woven side reflects sizzling sunlight away from Dan’s already well-baked back!
