Las Vegas Jewelry Show

We will be leaving this week for the world re-knowned Las Vegas Jewelry Show.  I will be in Sin City for eight days - almost too long - with little sleep and too much fun!  But, seriously, it will be much work.  Jewelry Fairs may seem glamorous - but they are not - they are long, tedious days, spent on your feet, working hard and making large financial decisions if buying, and working your tail off if selling. I will be doing both at this  upcoming show - selling beautiful Tahitian and South Sea Pearls and purchasing some pink sapphire and diamonds if the quality and price is right.

The show I will be at is held at Mandalay Bay.  This is the first year it has moved from it's original location at the Venetian on the other end of the Strip.  So we will have a great time checking out the restaurants and fabulous boutiques.  My husband and our three college-age children will be coming with me- so it will be kind of a mini family vacation -minus the fact that mom will be working her tush off!  Evenings will be fun.  I will plan to post any fabulous finds - plus we are working on some new pearl jewelry designs that will be certain to dazzle!

Life is too short not to be SASSY!

The older I get, the more I appreciate other's uniqueness and independence in style and thought.  Why settle for the mundane and ordinary of life?  Be bold - make your own decisions and accept responsibility for them.  Remember - freedom is from within - live with sass and zest!

Lusty Month of May

I love May - it is a beautiful month - where Spring is breaking through from a cold, hard winter.  As a little girl, growing up on a large cattle ranch in the middle of the USA, we would love this time of year.  All of nature is in their full bloom and baby calves would be running wild on the hillside.  I believe this is when I learned to love nature and which lead to loving one of natures most precious beauties- pearls.  Pearls are truly an ocean gift that, after harvesting (only from Eco-friendly farms), they arrive in their beautiful natural form.  We analyse each pearl, pairing them up with other pearls that reflect similar beauty and then create jewelry.  They don't have to be cut or faceted or disrupt Mother earth as gems do, the pearl has it's own innate luster.

For all of you that remember the movie Camelot - you will recognize the "Lusty Month of May" as a lyric from that movie.  Of course, May isn't really "lusty" but this marvelous month does have a certain spirit that gives one a renewed sense of thinking that.. everything is possible...