Silly, but necessary!

Vancouver Fashion Week was a nutty experience and I needed a lot of wine to get through it! Here is my very first interview and a little peek at the exciting event! stay tuned for more photos...

BTW: Scroll down to the product slide by Slide.com and click the speaker icon to turn off the music! Then you can hear what kind of cacaphony I am spewing on the interview. Keep in mind that I was scared, tipsy, and feeling a bit like the proverbial Deer-in-the-headlights!

Seedlings, bulbs and sales people.

So this morning, I knew I had lots to do: brats to school, tidy the kitchen, go to the gym. (oh yeah, and phone different merchant services companies to find out just how much they will steal from me so I can accept credit cards at shows and sales...) Well, the kids got to school and the kitchen was squeaky clean, but of course, due to long winded sales people, my cardio got the short end of the stick. And so did my brain, after hours of crunching numbers and trying to comprehend how these expensive "solutions" are going to be my solutions. They don't make it easy, let me tell you.

Anyhoo, by noon I was done and looking at the sweet sunshine outside, decided it was time to tackle the garden! It was satisfaction pulling up the weeds (some were not weeds - but don't tell my Mom...) imagining that they were the sales people from earlier. Not really nice, no.

My daughter and I planted Iris and Crocus, Cosmos, Sweet Peas and Scarlet Runners. Nasturtiums are my favorite and we updated the herb garden with Silver Thyme and Summer Savory. She did a great job, especially when she would suddenly break into ballet and narrowly miss falling into the newly planted bed or make a sculpture using the garden path's decorative stones and in both cases giving me a heart attack and simultaneously reminding myself not to ask her to garden anymore...deep breath. Gardening is truly relaxing, isn't it? Well, I forgot about the merchant crap, anyways.

So we stayed out there with the fresh dirt, rock sculptures and a pot of tea until almost dark. We realized it was time to go in when we didn't hear the squirrels munching on the peanuts anymore. They called it quits and rightly so - it was getting so chilly that I could feel my earrings in my ears! (How do you like that segway, huh?)

..."Japanese Garden" from the 2008 Limited Collection is perfect for this and other earthy adventures, whether dirty or fashionable. The hand decaled Tensha beads are paired with beautiful Carnelian and dangle so pretty from 14mm Sterling Silver hoops. Plant these in your ears and you will bloom, my Friend.

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Sensual Seduction

Once in awhile, a song will come out that I can listen to over and over and over and over...well, I've just found one and I have listened to it 6 times in row just now. Oh no wait, seven.

I am a cat person. I have a cat and couldn't live without him: Jake is fat, furry and purrs me to sleep. But there's one Dogg that I can't resist and that's the one and only, Snoop to the Double G. When he barks, I listen. Woof.

Although he has a hundred children from 10 women, needs to eat a sandwich and he smokes waaaaay too much of the "fun stuff," Snoop is dope. (repeat song, number 8...)

"Sensual Seduction" is right up my alley, bringing Snoop and a dance beat together, all wrapped up in a seventies gift box complete with guitar-keyboard and Rick James. Take a look, listen and tell me if this little groove doesn't get you tapping your pimp boots. (nine times...got the chorus down)

Because of the strong influence this song may have on my designing over the next couple of weeks, don't be surprised if a whole (11 times...I'm rapping the lyrics now) line of Sensual Seduction pieces will be released. Until then, if I were to lie around in the buff wearing nothing but nude and Snoops song, I would accessorize with the "Black Beauty" earrings from my spring Signature Collection. Carats of glossy, black Cubic Zirconias shimmer and put me in the mood for some Sensual Seduction, fo sho Shorty.

And there's a dance version!!!

Sensual seduction, whoa oh-whoa, Sensual Seduction... "All the time, anytime."

Peace out. http://www.joliemack.com/

Party at your house.

To a large degree, I am very shy and I always have been. All my life, I have been labeled snobby and aloof when really, people and public events can scare the beads right out of me. And now, I find myself staring into the frightening abyss of a jewelery sales strategy that you people will likely find fun - the Home P-p-p-party (sounds so scary, doesn't it?)!!

Most women love to be the center of attention but I would rather blend into the wall. However, when one has giant hair (like me) it's a bit hard to squish up real tight against the wall paper, so forced to chat with others and stay relevant in conversations, I inwardly wring my hands together and nervously twitch my eye...what if I spit when I talk? What happens if I stutter? Am I actually interesting? Crap! I forgot her name. There is something in my teeth, I know it! How entertaining do I have to be? Will these ladies like my designs?... This party endeavour will not only be a sales challenge but even more so, a personal challenge. So Women! unbeknownst to you, as you are confidently shopping, having a glass of Chablis and enjoying the little shindig that you or a girlfriend has thrown, I will be gaining courage, confidence and peeing my pants, all thanks to your participation. Somebody pour me a drink!

Using fashion and jewelery as my saving grace, I find that adding a sparkling necklace or elegant earrings will always boost my confidence. High boots will do the trick, making me 5'11 (intimidation is key ;)) as will a pair of good fitting jeans and a bit of cleavage. Once the ensemble is put together and deodorant is applied, I can usually get through a bit of lively banter unscathed and even more so after some gin.

Appropriately named, "Riveting" from my Limited Collection, are light capturing Vintage Swarovski Crystal and Sterling Silver ear threads which could be there at one of these personal parties. I am certain that, if a lady is a shy as me at times, donning these earrings will add the confidence she'll need to be not only the centre but the life of the party.

If you are local, within British Columbia's Lower mainland, and would like more information on how to plan a Private Gallery, please email me and let's brainstorm some ideas!

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