Friday, June 14, 2013
Monday, June 10, 2013
"Always
remember you have within you the strength, the patience,
and the passion to
reach for the stars to change the world"
I use to carry a Louie Vuitton
travel bag with me while I was going back and forth to Atlanta spending time
with my declining mother.
It was a very very dark period in my life. I was
suffocating. Trapped. Scared. I found myself financially,
emotionally and spiritually broke.
I had gone tough a few years of chronic loss and I began to
feel hopeless. I did not see anyone around me who offered a light in what
had become a dark tunnel. I began a search for people who against all
odds, without a life raft changed the course of their lives and others.
I needed to carry hope with me and
that was the ideas to create the Tombstone Collection. The first handbag
I had ever made or considered making. In my own snarky way I thought why
carry a logo? why not carry something equally beautiful, sophisticated but with
a beautiful message. Make words into the logo, into a pattern that read
up close provoked new thoughts and ideas.
Well, there are so many people that
made me rethink my perspective but one of the people who stirred awe in me and
began a return to light was Harriet Tubman. Unlike me she literally was
trapped. Uneducated. A slave. If she could save herself and
so many others I could. We all could because none of us are getting out
of here alive.
Friday, June 7, 2013
Wednesday, June 5, 2013
1.
Do not buy any fine jewelry in a fashion jewelry design. The market is
filled with fine jewelry created in trend designs. I purchased a
disk in gold and three weeks into wearing it I realized it looked exactly like
every fashion item on the market.
Nikki and my favorite Frank Muller diamond evening watch
2.
Do wait and buy the best you can afford in true classic and timeless styles as
a investment in your wardrobe. I.E. a great pair of diamond studs, a
Hermes watch or a pretty pearl necklace.
My mothers wedding band between two serpent stacks. I wear this all the time
3.
Do not go too low. Fashion jewelry has a tipping point where it becomes
junk and looks like junk. The items weight, the detail, the finish all
say weather you are wearing a real fashion find or something that you will
break a hour into wearing it. Too cheap is just that cheap.
My grandmothers wedding band and our serpent ring and pyramid bangle
4.
Do wear anything and everything you have been given by a mom, Aunt, dad,
grandmother, friend etc..any item fine or fashion that comes to you through a
loved one can be styled to look great. This was one of the inspirations
for my fashion line. I have a number of great pieces from my mother and
grandmother that on there own look very dated but layered with our fashion
pieces they make everything I am wearing look "fine".
My engagement ring..in mixed metal serpents
Bottom
line - I waited before I owned any serious jewelry. I waited for my ex
husband and I to be able to afford the engagement ring we (I) really wanted:)).
I waited until I could buy the pieces I truly coveted to build a jewelry
wardrobe to last a lifetime. Those pieces are with me always. My
advice - pass on the micro diamonds, solid gold arrows and trend concepts
that can be easily replicated just as beautifully for 1/8 of the cost.
Fashion jewelry like diamonds have there own grade of quality and like a great
pair of shoes the right fashion piece is worth every penny.
Sapphire checker board family ring with serpents.
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