Asiana Magazine Editorial Pictures

At the beginning of August we were approached by this beautiful glossy magazine, 'Asiana'. They wanted to use some of our jewellery in their magazine for some editorial shots. We were over the moon!

Here are the long awaited results, (click on pics to enlarge)

Our Loretta Necklace

Necklace on 1st model

Ellen Necklace

It is such a beautifully compiled magazine, we were hyper active when we saw it on the shelves on Friday morning and realised we had one piece in it.  So you can imagine how hyper we got later on when we realised we actually had 3 pieces featured in the magazine and we are listed in the back 'stockists page'

I cannot describe how honoured we feel to have been approached by Asiana and to have our jewellery endorsed on the same page as the likes of New Look, Fiorelli & Dune.  We now have these beautiful pictures to treasure.  Hope you like them too!

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Swarovski Sulking

My 4 year old has just had a major strop, she 'cannot ever even build a slide'.  To be fair to her I don't think it is something many people can do.  I'm sure the angle has to be correct to obtain maximum slideage and you must need some pretty specialised tools and material too.  I mean if it was that easy everyone would do it huh?  Ava's choice of materials are 2 packets of Tescos Ultra Dry Nappies, I think there are about 55 in a packet.  This is important, the 55 nappy packets are long, good for slide creation.

We take a lot of time sourcing our materials too, well mum does.  Luckily for us she has slightly less tantrums than Ava and again luckily her materials of choice are super luxurious rather than super absorbent.    Our latest delivery was gorgeous sterling silver flake style beads out of which our 'Love our Crystal Collection' is being created.  The website is already being jazzed up with shiny white, purple & black glitzy crystal and sterling silver, it is after all nearly party season!

As I'm typing this Ava's nappy slide has come on very well, she is a wee creative genius.  Packets of wipes are being added as steps....

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Miranda Cuff

If adults behaved like toddlers, we would all be locked up!

Today is kind of like a half day off, not as in I ll work in the morning and be off in the afternoon but more  I'll do a bit less through the whole day....maybe like instead of doing 100% all day I ll do 50% all day, you know?


I sometimes get days like that where really there is no way I will be giving 100% all day, its usually caused by 2andahalfyearolditis. '2andahalfyearolditis' will cause extremely late nights and extremely early mornings, you will be unable to sit for more than 30 seconds at a time, it also causes your house to be extremely messy and makes nothing safe, it makes your food cold before you can eat it and covers your magnolia walls in plum juice and chocolate.  The only known cure for 2andahalfyearolditis is time, so we wait! He can't be 2 and a half for ever!


So today I have had to accept 2andahalfyearolditis has well and truly kicked in and this horrible weather fairly aggravates it, so 50% it is.


It is Sunday so my 'To do' list isn't really that long, a few online things to catch up on, a wee bit of SEO and the obvious houseworky things.  Now our packaging is all complete its one less thing to be thinking about.  It takes a fair amount of brain power to think what you like in terms of colour & design and then to collaborate with someone else about it, then to see what is actually achievable.  But we got there, luckily 2andahalfyearolditis doesn't affect packaging design too much...

Our new branded packaging

Our front page on website has been changed also, hope you like!

Now off to nurse this headache, yes you guessed it 2andahalfyearolditis....

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A snip from our world as it stands today

So its August, where did July go? Its been a blur! Is it the older you get the faster time goes past? Not sure but anyway we have been so busy and the annoying thing is that most of it has to be kept under wraps at the moment. I am literally bursting at the seams to tell someone all our news but rules are rules and thems the rules.

I'll level with you, this post is probably going to be pretty boring and I wasn't going to blog today but I just cannot put up with the 'oh have you given up with the blog?' comments any longer, the shouts, the grumping the tantrums, the rolling of the eyes, the stomping about and the big sighs.........so mum this ones for you!

Yes it is funny having your mum as your business partner.  It doesn't matter how old you are your mums your mum and she can drive you just as batty when you are 28 as when you are 15 and of course as the 'child' in this relationship I still bring so much joy, make a lot of mess and spend a bit of time on the naughty step.  Yes our office is fun!

One thing I can tell you about is our exciting new packaging, some of it has arrived.  We have gone for gorgeous purple boxes which are (get this) made using recycled and partly recycled paper which comes from sustainable sources Yup we are doing our bit to reduce our carbon footprint on this earth.

I am hoping I ll be able to reveal some more of our news very soon.  Mostly because I am really excited about it and also a little bit because I have a big mouth and cannot be trusted to stay quiet for long.

I need to add a bit of sparkle to this blog so here is Bessie, goldstone with a mother of pearl flower

Bessie

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Stick to Stacking

I posted a few weeks back about how we love to stack and how stacking or layering as its sometimes known is a huge trend just now.  Well our newest piece or should I say pieces are created to stack perfectly, this is the Judy Stacking Bracelet collection

Judy 

It is stacked full of gemstone goodies; turquoise, carnelian, onyx, brown goldstone & red jasper and if you didn't feel like stacking it then you could wear the pieces individually.  There are so many possibilities with our Judy Collection.

Must say we do love working with goldstone, do you have any favourite gemstones?

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Little Bit of Big Excitement

We are working hard behind the scenes at Ruby & Rose Jewellery and we are very excited about our newest piece,

Veronica

The Veronica bracelet is a very opulent piece of jewellery, made using carnelian and blue goldstone gemstones and sterling silver.

The uber exciting thing with this bracelet is that it can take on so many forms; remove the sterling silver heart charms and replace with the gemstone hearts or mix and match gemstones and sterling silver.  This ability gives it the ultimate day to night appeal, the perfect piece of 18 hour jewellery.

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Strike a Pose.....

VOGUE, VOGUE, VOGUE, VOGUE.....

Yes that is right, we have 2 pieces of jewellery on print in the actual Vogue Magazine (August edition out now!)
Its kind of surreal to know that something you have created has now been printed and preserved on paper by the same machine that printed Kate Moss' face!  I'm so excited to be in Vogue as the magazines that enter this house usually come with free glitter, stickers and plastic tools.  But this is a huge deal to us, we are pretty much on cloud 9.  Pictures of the 2 pieces featured can be seen below...

Hayworth Bracelet

Florence in Goldstone

So imagine our delight when we get a call from Glamour Magazine asking us if we would like to appear in their mag! .....um let me think? Yes please! We will be in their September edition (out August 2011)

Don't forget our giveaway! at 50 followers we will giveaway our Taylor bracelet to one lucky follower at random.  We are so close to our target, can you help?

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