Happy Memorial Day!

Instead of sunshine and backyard bbqs, I'll be holed up in my apartment doing a little DIY photo shoot. I can't complain though. It's for the new collection and so far the photos are tickling me with excitement. Can't wait to show you the end results!

Hope everyone enjoys their day off! Eat a hamburger for me...and a hot dog...and potato salad...oh dear, I'm hungry.

P.S. If you're looking for an easy set up like I got going on here and you don't have a lot of space and/or money, I recommend getting this light tent set. It came with the two lights too. It's not the highest quality product, but it's getting the job done.

Jewelry on the brain

 


If you follow my blog, you would know every now and then I like to share with you some of the wacky things that get made at my day job. I think I'll start calling it 'day job discoveries'...

So here's another one for ya! This is a custom necklace, 22k yellow, vintage diamonds. Kinda looks like a brain doesn't it?? The customer made the pendant using CAD and when I first saw the file, I was a little scared. But after it was all set and polished, it actually looks pretty awesome. I would totally wear this especially with its longer chain length. Way to go customer! You designed something not so ugly which is very rare at my company.

Lifecycle of a bead

As you know, I've been fiddling around with some CAD modeling and have been using it to create some pieces for the new collection. Like a proud parent, I wanted to share with you the birth of one of my bead designs:

Sketches & thoughts

As I mentioned in my last post, I've been developing a new collection for this Fall/Winter. It's been a slow process. A lot slower than I want. 

Sometimes I wish I had the time to crank out a collection for every season like the big fashion houses, but I have to remind myself that I'm only one person. 

Sometimes I freak out and worry time is passing me by and I need to make things happen NOW, but I have to remind myself, I'm only one, still very young person. 

Sometimes I want to quit my day job and concentrate fully on this 'jewelry company' thing, but I have to remember, I'm only one person, and it will be ok because one day, soon, I WILL get there. Since I'm only one person, I have to take small steps, but I'm focusing on making each of those small steps the fullest and greatest steps. Soon, those small steps will amount to big things. 

I've been using this 'small steps' philosophy as inspiration for my new collection which I'll be sharing with you oh so soon! Below are some sketches I've been working on for the new collection's 'logo' (for lack of a better word). Can't wait to show you more!