these are a few of my favorite things...in spring green!

yippee its officially spring!

1. katie bartels flower laser cut wood and onyx earrings // 2. fred flare sunglasses // 3. cambridge satchel co. satchel in green // 4. pantone iPhone case in green // 5. j.crew viv flats in festival green // 

you get what you pay for!

the other day I came across a rather shocking article on NY Mag about a study done by the Ecology Center, which revealed that a lot of costume jewelry for sale at stores such as Forever 21 and Claire's contains dangerous chemicals, including lead and even arsenic. yikes! I never buy jewelry from stores like Forever 21 because of a moral objection (the vast majority of their pieces are copied from higher end brands and as a designer I find it so disheartening), but now I definitely will never purchase anything from these stores because of the presence of really dangerous chemicals. hopefully this study will result in changes of materials used by these stores. definitely an argument for purchasing gemstone jewelry :)

happy st. patrick's day {tomorrow}! hope everyone enjoys themed cupcakes, 

drinks some beer, and rocks green accessories. 

four leave clover paperweight, john derian

guest post with lemons and loafers!

check out Julia's fabulous blog here !

OPI a roll in the hague // Essie Lollipop // Essie Sugar Daddy // Essie Spaghetti Strap

back in the studio

after taking far too much time off from creating jewelry {to attend to other big projects such as redoing my website--relaunch soon!, editing dozens of photos, etc}, I'm back at my design desk and it feels great. I've got lots of new pieces in the works. definitely excited for what's to come!

blogger love

I was so flattered when hunter from navy and orange nominated my blog for the liebster award, which is given to bloggers with less than 200 followers as a way to show love to those of us who are relatively new to blogging and working on establishing a readership. I've been an avid follower of hunter's blog and she did a fabulous nail polish guest post on my blog back in january. it was such a nice surprise to be recognized and I look forward to passing along the honor to five up-and-coming bloggers really soon!

kurta love

I've been obsessed with tunics and kurtas for a while now and my favorite brand is rikshaw design. the kurtas are super comfortable and come in fun patterns, made from the hand block printing technique. I wore their kurtas while traveling in India and back in nyc and ct I wear them with my wood necklaces. they just launched their newest collection and I'm in love. 

one of rikshaw designs' classic kurtas 

me wearing one of the kurtas at the taj mahal

I love wearing the kurtas with my wood and sparkle collection

this summer I plan on pairing the kurtas with my 

summer 2012 wood and coral collection (available in may!!)