Paris in her favorite earrings!

Paris wearing my gray crystal teardrop earrings AGAIN at a recent event at the Sundance Film Festival!!

Avril Lavigne...again!

Avril wearing my fuchsia gold skull rhinestone pin at a recent outdoors performance!

Eva Marcille wearing my earrings!

America's Next Top Model winner Eva Marcille wearing my gold XXL diamond filigree earrings at a recent event, pictured in the February issue of People's Style Watch! Thank you Tasha for your eagle eye!

into the new year...

First of all, I can't believe it's 2008! What?? I'm still not over the fact that fall 2007 is long gone! When I went home for the holidays, it was nice to do a little "R & R", now having been back in LA for two weeks, I have been thrust into working my booty off, that's for sure...!

Here's the projects that my jewelry was borrowed for (only God knows if it was used/shot/will be printed in 3 months, etc):
--Cover shoot with Avril Lavigne
--Maggie Barry advertorial shoot for Flaunt
--Paula Abdul's upcoming video
--Tyra Banks
--Girl's Life editorial shoot (www.girlslife.com, one of my best friends is their fashion editor!)
--some other editorial shoot that the stylist didn't know the name of the magazine

Life is NUTS!!! I also googled myself yesterday, and found that I was on another website in Japan, the link is: http://item.rakuten.co.jp/canwave/c/0000000108 Scroll down to see my goodies!

A quick previous editorial update, I didn't make it into the february issue of Vibe, bummer! I was really looking forward to that! Oh well, such is the wacky world of editorial I guess! I wonder if I could find outtakes online somewhere..

Britney's "Piece Of Me" video...

So, my jewels made it to set, but I can't really spot my stuff because they edited the scenes really short and fast! I did see one of my necklaces, on one of the dancers in the club, but it was so fast, I could barely see it! (My eyes were practically cross eyed while trying to find my stuff--it's like "Where's Waldo" in miniature!!)

Random bumping into a customer...

So I was in Nordstrom in San Francisco with my mom post-Christmas. I'm standing near the shoes, when I look over and recognize this guy! He bought my silver key necklace at the Qio party last week! At the party, he asked me if I had any jewelry for guys, and I said, "Yes, I DO!" and ran to the back room, grabbed the necklace, and sold it to him on the spot!!

So I run over to him and say, "Hey, you bought my silver key necklace at the Qio party last week!" He remembers, and we both talk about how weird it is that we ran into each other here...of all places!! Ahh...gotta love stuff like that!!

Maybe one day I will meet a cute, single, nice guy wearing my necklace whom I can approach! :)

This week makes up for last week!!

So...about it being soooo slow last week--this week certainly made up for it!! One of my new accounts--Qio--had a party last Thursday! It was nice to see some of my little jewels get snapped up and worn out into the world! The girls at Qio are so sweet, we have agreed to have them work as my sales rep in Japan!

They already landed me one account, an online store that also sells Victoria's Secret bath and body products! My friend Paul told me that Victoria's Secret have no freestanding stores in Japan, so their customers only buy online! The website is: www.candybody.jp.

You can also see my jewelry at Qio (on the Westside) at 11614 West Pico Boulevard, Los Angeles, CA 90064. They also carry cult favorites such as Hysteric Glamour, Orthodox, and Corpus.

Some downtime...

Okay, usually during the holiday season, I'm inundated with numerous emails, calls, etc. regarding getting, buying, pulling, my jewelry! For some reason, this week has been slow, with ZERO appointments booked, nothing to drop off, etc. It's weird!!

I mean, the last few weeks did really run me over though...maybe I took care of everybody way in advance...? We'll see what happens next week!!

Well, at least I have taken this time to clean my apartment--which needing some serious cleanin' lovin'!!!

I have been feeling pretty antsy too...I think I've been stuck indoors here quite a bit, so I'm always looking for something to do...ANYTHING!!!