New earrings

Due to a happy accident I wound up with two halves of a piece of pyrite druzy. I played for a bit but couldn't get dead fish imagery out of my head so here is what I made!

X-RATED & CENSORED?!?

Apparently our website contained some adult and censored material that it was blocked from my friend's corporate computer. What was the adult and censored material you ask? You be the judge:

www.kickstarter.com/projects/622189791/

Beautiful, right? Since we want everyone to be able to shop julesmarie.com whenver and whereever, Leah was kind of enough to remove the picture and lo and behold my friend was able to get on our website again. If only the corporate world would loosen their ties a little and step outside the box.....

On a side note, she has created an awesome new blog called Body in Metal where she can discuss such "taboo" things that the corporate world can't accept.

Renegade Craft Fair

Come by and visit us at the Renegade Craft Fair May 15th and 16th. We are working hard on building up our inventory of the old stand-bys and adding some exciting new pieces to our line. We have lots of new earrings and some cool glass lockets, so come check it out!



We will also have on display some Fine Art Pasties from Leah's Pasties Project so you can see her work in person and donate!

Amanda Elmore rocks!

Thanks to Amanda Elmore for taking such beautiful pictures of our Jewelry, and thanks to our absolutely stunning model, Ross Joslin! These pictures are going to show up in our look book and on the website so look out for them!

Pasties Project Launched on Kickstarter!

Hello Family & Friends,

I have recently posted my metalsmithing art project to kickstarter.com. Check it out and Please show me some support and DONATE! I am making Fine Art Pasties and am trying to raise money to create a series of 10. The money will also go towards building a metalsmithing studio when I move to Chicago in August so I can continue my work with Jules Marie and focus on my art projects as well!

CLICK ON THE LINK BELOW TO DONATE:

http://kck.st/9QQBck

What do you give a grandmother that has everything?

My grandmother's "90th" birthday was a couple of weeks ago and I fretted over what to get her for this big occassion. My entire family (all 36 of us - and that's just my mother's side) came in town to help her celebrate.

Brief background on why the 90 is in quotes - in the Chinese culture age 1 is counted as soon as you are born, thus by westerned standards she is actually 89 years of age, but according to the Chinese tradition of counting age she is actually turning 90...thus the reason for the big family celebration. Confusing I know....try going by the lunar calendar for your birthday. It changes every year!

Back to the topic at hand...my beatiful grandmother. So what was I going to get my grandmother, that my aunts, uncles, cousins, mom, dad and brother wouldn't already get her? I knew I wanted it to be something she could cherish....and then I came up with an idea....

What better than to have a one of a kind necklace with your name on it....but since my grandmother doesn't read or really speak English, I wanted to make the Chinese character of her surname, TSAO.

It was quite complicated and intricate but I was pretty pleased with it when I finished. And Grandma was too!

It is composed of gold-filled wire carefully soldered together to make the Tsao character and lightly finished with a hammered texture. The sheer joy on her face when she saw it was more than enough for me. Moments like that make me realize how gratifying it is to be doing this.

More Amazing stones came in!

This is one of my new favorites . . .

but it is so hard to choose!!



Hopefully some of these fine specimens will be made into fantastic jewelry for our next trunk show at Feathers, as well as show up on our website. Stay tuned!