looking back my sedona trip

Sedona!

The purpose of the trip was to get inspired from the gigantic nature.  

Living in the city, I sometimes feel like I'm trapped in a cage and need to break a door to make something totally new.

Instead of watching a street of New York, I wanted to see things from the top of a mountain like a bird's point of view.

I used to think that I didn't have time to go for a trip, but here, I made it for 3 nights 4 days trip to Sedona.

My goal here is to do as many as sketches I can!

  

Many people seem to feel something spiritual in Sedona, and I completely did not.  

I thought something related to my dead father might happen but I didn't see him either.  

Instead, I had a dream.  

In my dream my friend Lauren was doing something I always wanted to challenge.  

She told me "Why don't you do it, too?"

At the top of Cathedral Rock, I thought of Native Americans who used to live here and disappeared later.  

Did they meet their girlfriends at a mountain to have a date?  

Was there hidden secret spot to look sunset at the time?  

double finger ring

I wanted to make a double finger ring which is delicate in design, feminine, and most of all, wearable everyday.  

It has five stones with options of rubies, black diamonds or white sapphires.  

Sterling silver dipped in black rhodium.  

You can try the rings at either Catbird and Sucre in NY.  (Please check their stock availability first.)

wish you were here

Back to NY from Sedona.  

So refreshed, and I swear I'll gun my engine to make my new jewelry now.

color of summer

The weather was good during Memorial day weekend.  

I officially call in summer (finally!), washed remaining light sweaters with my hands and brought all my summer dressed out.  Good bye black and gray, hello to colors. 

Looking at the color of grape soda, I think of Amethyst for the next collection.

brooklyn window-cat collection

Hello!

White MacBook

I went to Apple's Genius Bar today.  

I use 13 inches white macbook and there was a crack on the bottom casting of a notebook.  

Within 15 minutes the bottom (keyboard side) was replaced, and my computer looks like a new one.  (If you have cracks on your white plastic macbook, you should bring your notebook to Genius Bar also.  Check this article.)

It started rain when I was at Apple store, and I was imagining while I was waiting for the rain to stop at the first floor.

  

What would it be like if I'm a member of iPad product development team?  

It will make me very proud to create such a sensational dream machine.  

I might be with tears just for watching people from all over the world enjoying iPad happily at a store.  

And I felt like I was touched by looking at all those customers at Apple store....then I realized that I was a jewelry designer and I didn't even work for Apple.

unusual engagement rings

Refinery29 has an article of "20 engagement rings you'll love", and they picked one of my rings from Catbird store.

My engagement ring from my husband was a very chunky and big white gold ring with diamonds, and I wore it on my index finger, not traditional ring finger.  

(Back then, I was working at an ad agency and I didn't even think about becoming a jewelry designer.)

I would recommend my customers to pick a wedding/engagement ring that is right for you right now even if that's an unusual one.

You would expect to receive an anniversary ring every few years (I would), and forty, fifty years later you will have a collection of rings which tell you your life story.