All fabrics and trims are 100% solution-dyed acrylic.
About Gilded Nest
The Gilded Nest collections are durable enough to weather the outdoor elements, while beautiful enough to enhance any living space. Each accessory provides a comfortable, stylish and versatile way to dress up items consumers already own and might want to use differently. The goal of Gilded Nest is the same as Don’t Eat the Eagle – Create a quality product with beautifully unique and creative style.
Gilded Nest is a retail line offered by Don’t Eat the Eagle and designed by Kim Badenhop. Kim founded Don’t Eat the Eagle after years of sewing for personal enjoyment. It is a business devoted to creating exquisite fabric elements for the home. A sophisticated sense of color and style, combined with Kim’s love of details, are all evident in the Gilded Nest collections.
Whatever your favorite type of outdoor living, whether on a boat, at the beach, on the back deck, by the pool, in the desert or on the lake, gild your nest with our accessories.
About Don't Eat the Eagle
During a White House holiday reception, Kim surprisingly witnessed someone repeatedly plucking the feathers of a not-to-be-eaten, hand-carved chocolate eagle. Stunned that someone would consume an obvious decorative item, Kim wanted to say: “Don’t eat the eagle.” Shortly after the reception she realized that people often lose their heads when they enter a place like the White House, behaving in ways they wouldn’t otherwise. Given the symbolism of the eagle in history, representing everything from the birth of a nation to spiritual renewal in the Bible, the phrase soon became Kim’s metaphor for not getting so caught up with where you are that you lose sight of what’s really important in life.
About Kim Badenhop
Prior to starting Don’t Eat the Eagle, Kim worked a combined total of eight years in the U.S. Senate and at the White House. She has over twenty years of personal sewing experience. In January 2005, appreciation of her sewing skills resulted in a request for her to sew a cover for the Bush family Bible used at the Inaugural ceremony.
