interview with Japion

I have been working for another tradeshow.

I made really a lot of new collections this summer.

Hope you will have a chance to look at them at stores in your area.

The other day, I was interviewed by Japanese newspaper, Japion.

This series of column is titled "beauty expert", and I did not have any nice beauty tips for them.

I felt sorry for the writer. (She was very nice, cool lady!)

Everyday I just wear sunscreen and mascara, and that works fine for me.

It's written in Japanese, here is a link of the column.

three-hour vacation

Finally, my first visit to the beach in this summer.

Stayed there for three hours and came back to my studio for more work.

Now I know that I could have done this more often if I tried harder.

You can drive to a beach within one hour if you live in New York.

Well I shouldn't be sad, I can do that in next summer.

With many shiny dead jelly fish on the beach and dresses that I could not wear this summer,

I have to say good-bye to this summer.

dog driver

The dog in the picture was listening to rock music in the car. Williamsburg, Brooklyn.

beautiful boxes

Stunning art on white jewelry boxes are done by my friend, Jovana's brother.

hawaii and my father

During a trade show in August, one of many nice things that happened to me was a store in Hawaii had ordered my jewelry.

I have been in love with Hawaii after I visited there with my mother and my sister.

My father was very busy for his work then, and he basically hated a trip.

It's not only about beaches, I like how different culture had met there and created one new scene, I like healing but strong hula dance, and I like their original beautiful language.

I remembered that after my father found that he had cancer he wanted to come to Hawaii with us just to experience the United State (he was already too weak to fly to far NY, but he wanted to see how I lived in the states).

He was never able to do that. I said "Can't believe he has gone, it was just months ago when he said he wanted to go Hawaii" and I almost cried right after I said. That surprised me.

Beautiful Hawaii, I hope to visit there again soon.

shows

I have done two shows this month.

I would never know about trade shows if one of store owners didn't suggest me to do it after she purchased my collections several times. I think I started doing those shows 2003 or 2004.

Until then I was just making appointments with store owners in New York, and brought all my jewelry to their stores.

I even went to stores without appointments and walked in the store hoping an owner would notice my necklace and then I could say "Oh you like this? Would you like to see my line sheets that I happen to have right now?"

It's so nice to see buyers from all over the world at the show.

Whenever buyers say "they are so beautiful" it makes my heart throb still now.

command + z in my head

A stone setter once told me "You will never know what will happen to your jewelry until you finish making the piece"

That's very true.
I think most of jewelers try to finish a piece way before the due to avoid the worst case.
I have seen enough people crying over a ruined piece in their hands before.

Once a year, I scream at my studio "command Z!!" holding my jewelry.
I wish I can "undo" the things in our real lives.