Jewelry Designers heart JAPAN!

 

Jewelry designers, Satomi Kawakita, Toyo Kurokawa and I have been preparing for this upcoming event.

We called for jewelry donations from designers in the U.S. to support children who have been displaced from their homes because of the earthquake and tsunami in Japan.

 

Shoppers can buy those donated pieces with very very special prices at this event, and we will donate ALL PROFIT to Save the Children’s Japan Earthquake Tsunami Relief.  

 

Can't thank enough for fellow jewelry designers' generous support and ABC Carpet & Home who will host us for the event.

 

We'll reveal more details soon.

support kids in Japan

I have just added this knot charm to my online store.

It's $35 and 100% retail profit from this piece will be donated to Save the Children's Japan Earthquake Tsunami Relief to support children who have been displaced from their home.

Unfortunately, there are kids who lost his/her entire family because of the earthquake and tsunami.

This piece can be worn as a necklace and a bracelet. 

The knot charm is made of sterling silver. 

It comes with a handmade silk cord which I purchased in Kyoto Japan, one of the most beautiful city in the world. 

Each item is handmade, it may take up to 10 days to ship.

Join me to support Japan.

getting there

Finally, the first charity piece has been done.  
Will be online soon, and all retail profit will go to Save the Children's "Japan Earthquake Tsunami Relief."  

stepping forward

Today I...


1. Met two designers to discuss about a possible project to raise a fund to Japan by donating our jewelry for an event.
2. Finally bought YSL Radiant Touch #8 at saks.  My eye area will be brighter tomorrow.

this my feeling

I found old tarts in my giant bag today, the tarts I bought on the day the earthquake hit Japan.
It's been 5 days, and I totally forgot about them until today.


This feeling I have now is similar to the feeling I had after 9-11.
I thought it could be me again and again.
I could be there, and I could have been gone when the Twin Tower collapsed on 9-11.


It's been more than 10 years now since I moved to NY, and I still think I could be a Tsunami and earthquake victim in Japan.  
Feeling of guilt to live a life, it doesn't make any sense but I can't stop feeling it.


I'm taking a positive step now by making a charity piece.  
I found that my other jewelry designer friends were thinking the same thing.  
We could do something with those special pieces.  Step by step, slowly we are moving forward.


"I alone cannot change the world, but I can cast a stone across the waters to create many ripples." — Mother Teresa. 

slices of an apple

 

I was reading this column today.  

A Japanese newspaper reporter walks the affected area and talks to people there.  This is a guy he meets.

This guy went back his home from his office two days after Tsunami.

He couldn't contact his wife at all after the earthquake and tsunami because there was no way to call her.  

When he finally came home, the house was empty.  

He saw slices of an apple on a dining table, which his wife should have prepared for him as a snack before Tsunami hit the town.  

He ate them, and went out to search her.  

Some people told him that his wife drove to escape from Tsunami.  

At last he found her car lying on its side and she wasn't there.  

He said she was most certainly engulfed by Tsunami.

I have to remember, there are people exactly like us everywhere on the earth.  

When there is a bombing, there is a terrorism, there is a disaster in any places on the earth, now I see people like me, my husband, my mother and my friends there.

helping hand to japan earthquake

People who want to help can text REDCROSS to 90999 to make a $10 donation to help those affected by the earthquake in Japan and tsunami throughout the Pacific.  

You can also go to www.redcross.org and donate to Japan Earthquake and Pacific Tsunami. 

By the way our family members are fine.  Thanks for your kind thoughts.

earthquake

I hope people in the world will extend their helping hands to the sufferers of Japan's earthquake.  If you understand Japanese, you'll be able to watch NHK at USTREAM here.  

art and artist

We went to see our friend Peter's father's beautiful exhibition at Chelsea Art Museum.  

It's always nice to see how one artist's creative arrow on a map changes it's angle as time goes by.    

Every decade, his works are shining in their own way.  I hope you'll visit the museum during this exhibition, too.

 

If I were a painter, I would be painting based on a theme of life and death now.  After spending a time with my father at a hospice, that's something in my mind always.  Now I think both life and death are beautiful and graceful, and that wouldn't be my thought of life and death if it were 10 year ago.

I always liked art history classes, and now I want to read the text books from college again to study artists' back ground and their works.

Read about this exhibition here.