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Tuesday, April 29, 2008
Jewelry Parties are too much fun!
I don't care who you are - jewelry parties are fun!
A little (stiff) sangria ... great food ... good friends ... and lot's
of different, unique, unusual, handmade, magnificient, out of this world jewelry!
"How do I look in this red coral set?"
Is this a jewelry model or what?
Okay, things may have gotten a little out of hand...
THANKS DEEAN ... for hosting, and being so great!
Sunday, April 27, 2008
Marketing Genius ... really
Never again will I leave a jewelry party without people signing the guest
book! Thanks Hope - you put that MBA to good use!
3:04 am est
Thursday, April 24, 2008
Thanks Toni ..., and Tanya ..., and everyone!
Drove up to New Jersey on Saturday for a jewelry party - had an absolutely
wonderful time. (photos will follow...)
My neighbor Tanya is a New Yorker at heart, and is still struggling to adapt
to our quiet little Maryland community. I keep telling her she will. She has become a great friend - and a jewelry addict
in her own way.
Thanks to Tanya we lined up this jewelry party at her twin sister Toni's
place, in New Jersey. It was great. Great peaple - great family - great fun! I brought my 14 year old, Alessandra, and
her girlfriend - we stayed overnight at a hotel, and all had a ball!
Thanks Toni - for being suich a perfect hostess. Thanks Tanya - for making
it all happen. Thanks to the guys - for putting up with us all! And especially thanks to Ameer - for being such a good boy...
Monday, April 14, 2008
Wedding party jewelry
I have made an executive decision:
I will post a new section of the site, strictly for a "wedding party line"
of jewelry.
Over the last six months, I have worked with 4 brides to design jewelry for
their wedding parties. I have loved doing it, and I sense that the style has been similar in every case. Elegant, classic,
simple and understated. (Pearls, mostly...)
All turned out beautifully, and I am waiting for photos from the happy days
(hint)! But, I think I will step ahead and come up with some designs for a gallery. Keep watching - we'll see when I have
time to make the prototypes and post them!
Sunday, April 13, 2008
The ugly truth
In snooping around the web, peaking in on other jewelry designer's studios,
I find myself wondering ... am I the only one whose workspace looks like a bomb went off? I see these beautiful designers
sitting in front of empty tables with their tools lined up and their beads and metals all put away and organized.
Ahem ... this is what my workspace looks like on most days...
I guess I just get lost in the process!:
I start my creative days by picking up a pallette tray. Here are a few:
Just like paint pallettes in a painter's studio - the colors are kept "wet"
so to speak, according to what I've been working on. I will add new things as the pallette changes.
I work with a tray on my lap, and of course - for some reason, the table
always ends up looking like what you see above.
I could have spent hours cleaning up and taking a beautiful picture of myself
behind an immaculately organized studio table - but that would have been completely staged. This is the ugly truth.
Monday, April 7, 2008
Evolution Schmevolution
Yesterday on PBS, there
was a special about mating among various animal and bird species. In so many of these species, the males have these elaborate
rituals to attract the females – with wild calls and dances and displays of color, etc. There are baboons who have these bright
red spots that develop on their chests, and they puff them out and beat on them while the females hardly look over at
them. Peacocks are the most obvious. While trying to attract a mate, the males jump around, shooting out their
chests and displaying their incredible plumage. The females are totally nonchalant --hanging around, hardly noticing.
As I watched the special, I kept looking over at my husband there sleeping, trying
to imagine him going to these lengths to attract my affections.
Hmmm.
Not likely.
In fact, I'm the one who wears lipstick. And I'm the one holding up earrings
or a scarf to match and outfit. I'm the one making sure I have a pair of flats to wear with that jacket. Shopping for new,
sexy pajamas to try to spark things up.
Just an observation, but, seems like evolution hasn't done us human females
any favors.
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