welcome to NY!

 

My sister and mother are here in NY for a week!  

My sister goes to Diamond District to run errands for me.  I feel like I'm a mom who sends a child for her first errand in her life.  Everything is so different from Japan for them.

After 13 years of living in NY, I tend to forget what it was like to live in overseas. 

To me, my mother is way too polite even to strangers.  I just hope people will be nice to her while she's here so that she will like NY.

Sale This Saturday!

We are having a sale this Saturday!

10% off from necklaces and earrings only this Saturday only at our studio/showroom.

(Rings and special orders are excluded.)

Also we are having a summer hat sample sale from Tsuyumi.

We are doing this event as a part of Atlantic Ave. local businesses in Brooklyn.

There will be bands, circus acts, sales, tastings and demonstrations from local businesses all along Atlantic Ave from BQE to 4th Ave.  Fun!

If you are in NY this weekend, come and join us.

(Sale prices are available only at our studio/showroom in Brooklyn.  Not available online this time.)

girl with a pearl earring

I love pearls, and I rather like ones with some unique character in it such as odd shapes or colors that you can't describe in one word than perfectly white round pearls.

I think "girl with a pearl earring" says that all.  That pearl she's wearing in the painting is my ideal pearl.

Honestly it is so rare that I find the pearls that I really like.  When you go to gem shows, you will be so confused by looking at thousands of pearls at one time.  

But those pearls called me and I asked them if they wanted to come home with me.  Here, they are now beautiful earrings.

 

For me it's not the price to determine the beauty of pearls.  

You might be surprised how reasonable those prices are on my website, and they are truly beautiful to me and I want more people to wear pearls.  

I don't know why but when I look at pearls I think of mothers in the world.  They are warm and gorgeous.

Just added new pearl earrings here.

at metropolitan museum

When I first came to Metropolitan Museum, I think I was twenty.  

It was a college trip from Kyoto.  I looked at apartments in front of the museum and thought that it would be like a dream if I could live in NY in the future.

Back then, I thought all NY apartments are like those classic pre-war style in front of the MET.    Anyway, I came to NY later and started my new life in an old, small, thin wall but pre-war apartment in Queens.

I don't know how many times I came to MET since then.  When I was at the entrance of the museum I again thought of the day I came to MET first time. 

I still feel how lucky I am, to be able to make living in NY and I can get to see the world without leaving NY by visiting this museum.  Don't you think it's just so amazing that we have MET in NY?  How wonderful that is.

I found this guy at African art section.  He looks like one of good fortune gods in Japan.  I named him African good luck boy.  He's nice, he makes me smile every time I open my photo file on my phone. 

Meet 'Drusy' :)

 

NEW:  'drusy' earrings

The name is 'Drusy'.
A super sparkly material that shines!
Drusy quartz is made up of tiny crystals, which gives it a soft and velvety appearance.
It's super sparkly when hold under light.
The earrings are made of round drusy, set in an oxidized sterling silver bezel with gold-filled ear wire.
3/8" diameter


more details here:
http://www.writtenbyforest.com/Drusy_Drop_Earrings_p/drs-e1s.htm

rings traveling in tokyo

So this time Maya took my rings to Tokyo subway.  I hope they are enjoying their new life in Tokyo.  

Yes, it says "Women Only Car."  If you take NY subway to your work 9am in the morning, you may understand why women wanted their own cars in Japan, I hope.  But at the same time we all know that it sounds strange.

melting an old ring

The other day, I went to my friend Noriko's jewelry studio to melt my customer's grandpa's old ring to make it a totally new wedding ring for him.

I like to visit my friend's jewelry studio.  We all do similar things, plan seasonal collections, make original models in wax and metal then do a trade show to meet retail buyers.  But all studios look different with different equipments and tools. 

Things in common in jeweler ladies; no skirts, flat shoes, no painted nails but with greenish tinted fingers because of polishing rouge.  I wonder if I would get to my nails colored in one day.  Maybe when I'm 65 years old and retired from my work?