Today we spent the day at the ENK show in NYC. We saw many wonderful new fashion jewelry items. Chan Luu has great new wrap bracelets, and a lighter look than the large long chunky necklaces that she has been doing the past few seasons. Alexis Bittar has totally redone the whole collection AGAIN.

Fall is dominated by earth tones, think chocolate and deep raspberry, lots of feathers and alternative materials. With the price of silver at 48.00 an oz all designers are looking to copper, bronze, brass, zinc and jeweler's metal to work with order to keep costs down.

As I dropped my daughter off at school I noticed a single Daffodil blooming. The crocuses have been up in my yard for sometime, but Daffodils some how mean that spring is really arriving! After this wonderful affirmation that this long cold winter is really over I was delighted to open a box of spring Alexis Bittar Jewelry! I have to admit when we were at the jewelry show in January his whole booth was so magnificent and jaw dropping we wanted to get one of everything, each piece of jewelry was more amazing than the last, alas we could not. Alexis has really out done himself this time, the colors a soft blue and pink (sunset). He as reworked almost the whole jewelry line, there are still the classics, but everything was so different. While it is still very "Alexis Bittar" a bit edgy, it has a very different feel to it, more romantic? Minimalist? Not sure what but it is wonderful. We combined a bit of the Elements, in a rose gold, to the Lucite so there will something for everyone. It should arrive in Ardmore, Princeton, and Dedham locations next week, stop in and celebrate spring with Alexis Bittar.

I stopped by to see the ladies of De Mi A Ti this afternoon. It is always fun to step into their magical, creative jewelry world.  Both Emily and Jeni have such energy and laugh so much. I can get lost in their studio; time just slips away when you are with them going over their ideas and what they are doing. The creative energy gets cooking and ideas start to fly, I just love what they have been making lately. They just finished a blue jewelry collection that should be hitting the floor in the stores very soon. They are currently doing a green fashion jewelry collection, and a pink unique jewelry collection, both are so bright and wonderful, they should be completed and in the stores in early April.

Spending some time in our Ardmore location today. Lots of new jewelry arriving all the time! Having fun with staff and customers picking out our new carpet color. Keep posted to find out what else we are doing to the store, lots of things going on........

-LW

Just back from a jewelry buying trip in Tucson, AZ, at one of the biggest gem and jewelry shows in the world. It was amazing! Almost every hotel's first floor was taken up by jewelry vendors, selling everything from 6 ft amethyst geo's from Brazil to opals from Australia. It was a lot of fun, but hard work, scouring the booths and rooms for interesting and unique jewelry to bring back. Everyone brings their best jewelry and stones to Tucson, so it is very hard to choose. It is the place people showcase newly discovered stones and new ways of cutting them. One of the many wonderful jewelry pieces we found were these simple stone drop earring set in sterling silver, a green turquoise and moonstone that has been set on pink or blue paper giving them a totally different look. I love both, they will be a great earring for summer picnics and outside cocktail parties. Found lots of other goodies, they will be arriving in the stores soon! -LW