Bleeding Hearts in NYC!

I have been so busy running my new store that I somehow didn't realize that all the flowers have started blooming in our backyard! I couldn't resist posting this picture of our beautiful Bleeding Hearts--if you've never seen them, you are really missing out! These were my favorites when I was growing up in North Carolina. After my parents sold the house I grew up in, I thought I would never get to enjoy these flowers again. And now, magically, they are blooming in my backyard! Thanks, of course, to my amazing dad who drove them up to us in NYC last April. So, there you have it--we are in the middle of our beautiful, early spring here in NYC and I could not be happier!

Also, everything at my new store has been going really well. Not that I haven't been having several minor freak outs every week, but that seems like par for the course when you have your own brand new small business!

To keep up with sales at the store, I have also been making a lot of new jewelry lately. It's a lot of work to always be making new pieces, but it's also incredibly fun, especially because as the designer, I get to make anything I want! I love testing out new pieces and seeing how people react. This pair of earrings is one of my brand new designs, and I love it because it combines two of my all-time favorite elements in jewelry--silver hoops and unique gemstones! I love when pieces manage to be organic and industrial at the same time. Silver hoops are the staple of my daily jewelry, and I think these amethyst pieces are especially beautiful and special, especially when paired with the hoops. See more about them and my other earrings HERE.

And here's a new necklace that I finally added to my website--it's been one of my best-sellers at the store, so I figured maybe people would like to buy it online too! You can find it and the rest of my new necklaces HERE.

Happy Spring everyone!!!!

My One Month Anniversary!

Hi everyone--sorry it's been so long since I have written! I was busy having my 28th birthday (I am officially old?) and making more jewelry, like usual!

I have actually been making lots and lots of gold things lately, which is pretty unusual for me. Most people who know me know that I wear mostly silver. I don't know how or why I developed such a strong preference, but for the majority of my life I have worn silver jewelry almost exclusively. That only started to change recently, since I started my jewelry company. First, I started to notice the gold chain in supply stores. Then I started to think how beautiful gold would look with certain gemstones. And somehow, over the past six months or so, I have really started to get into gold. I wrote a blog post about this last fall, after I made my first pair of gold earrings. But now, I actually wear gold myself! One day last week, I wore only gold jewelry--and I liked it! Above, you can see a few of my latest gold creations. The only one that made it to Etsy is the middle necklace--it is named after my awesome cousin Jamie, and you can find it HERE. I think I have already sold the other two....it's so hard to keep track of everything that's online versus what is in my physical store, and figuring what to put where!

Speaking of my store, it has now been open officially for four weeks! It will be one month this coming Sunday. Crazy. Sometimes it feels like this month has passed in the blink of an eye, and other times it feels like the store has been open for years. Either way, it is going well and I will officially be there for at least one more month! If you find yourself in NYC, you should come say hi. The website is finally up too, so you should check that out HERE. I think 12 Lions is a great name for a store. I never realized where the name came from--there are 12 lion gargoyles holding up the roof of the building. I am totally going to write a blog post about that and put up pictures one day soon--there are some great photos of the lions online.

I will finish this blog post with a photograph of the lovely Kristina Hyrri modeling one of my watches! She is a super sweet girl from Finland who came by my booth at 12 Lions last week and shared delicious Finnish candies with me and bought two watches. I am glad the watches have gone to a good home, and a big thank you to Kristina for coming to my store and for being so sweet!

Hope everyone has a great week, and come visit me and the 12 lions sometime! xo