Monday, September 27, 2010

twisted.

i am having a hard time settling on a name for my up and coming jewelry company...I do like Mermaid Treasures but im not sure if its THEEE one...i made a logo for my newest idea:

What are your thoughts??? At first i was thinking The Sea & I, but the sea and me sounded better and looked better...I'm still open to ideas so send them my way!  Also here are some pictures of my newest creations







Beachy Bangles!!



All the shells I've been collecting!

Look at those bad boys!! SOO rare to find!

I've realized how happy collecting shells and creating jewelry makes me...Its probably one of the best feelings I can describe.  Finding something that your so passionate about and you just plain love doing, its really just bliss!  I'll be at home making jewelry and before I know it 5 hours have passed by and its 11 at night and i worked right through dinner and didn't even notice...hahaha and i'm not exaggerating about any of that, i've done it a few times already!!

Monday, September 20, 2010

and so it begins

exciting news...With the help of Cherie I thought of a brilliant name for my jewelry company!!! It's going to be called Mermaid Treasures by Satchie..I have somewhat of a logo tooo:
I needed to do something with the beach or something because mostly all of my jewelry has seashells,  glass, or coral incorporated in the design.  I kinda like thinking of myself as somewhat of a mermaid.  When I was younger and would swim at the beach, i'd always pretend to be Ariel from The Little Mermiad and swim just how she did.  Some exciting things have happened for me this past weekend!  First of all I took a beachy bangles class and learned how to make these awesome sterling silver bangles!  I'll have to post pictures!! And yesterday Christian took Nate and I to this secret spot where we got the LOAD of SHELLS...And i mean the load  I was grabbing cone shells by the handful!! And if you know anything about collecting shells, perfect unharmed cone shells are SOOO rare to find!! I couldn't be more stoked!  It was like Christmas for me...I Cannot WAIT to make some treasures with my new SHELLS!! 

Thursday, September 16, 2010

i'm A

MESS

I was doing my homework the other night and took a second to just look up and i noticed how seriously disgustingly messy i am.  AHhahah i thought it was funny though, so i took a picture of it.  Its hard to stay organized when i feel like there is so much going on in my life and i'm just all over the place!  Any who its the weekend now and that'll give me some time to clean and get organized...hopefully my urban outfitters goodies are coming in soon and i can start decorating...oh and also i'm on the prowl for a good old cheap desk that i can paint!!

Monday, September 13, 2010

bedroom dreams

sooo a few of my favorite things to do while i'm procrastinating just so happen to mix Exxxtra well today.  I love looking at blogs and websites about interior design and i also love looking at urban outfitters.  Recently i've been feeling cramped in my room at home.  I loved so much having my own space and freedom to do what I wanted at my apartment, but now i feel stuck in my new room.  So with a little inspiration from some online sources, i bought a few gems for my room! my plan is to buy a old desk at either salvation armani or a garage sale then paint it a pretty turquise bluish color...I'm excited!! there was so much I wanted to buy on urban outfitters but I just couldn't see spending all that money! So i settled for these items..
I can't wait for them to come in!! The first picture is of a jewelry holder/wall art=) I'm particularly excited for this one, as I have a ton of jewelry i've been making to organize and display.  Then the next picture is this cool magnetic string with magnets that can hold pictures, postcards, letters, and more!! And I bought 4 of the lanterns shown which I really love.  I like the wire on the outside, I think it looks really vintage and cool.  Then lastly i just had to have the lime green magazine and book holder to go beside my bed.  Oh and This picture : 
is one I found on a photographers website of "lifestyle" pictures.  This is of a cute little apartment in New York and its exactly the look i'm going for.  If you look closely you can see lots of cute little details to the room which I love: the desk, vintage looking tray to hold hair products and other stuff, mirror against the wall, comfy bed..and more...Can't wait to get all my stuff!

Sunday, September 12, 2010

falling (more like tripping) into fall

even though it still may look like summer, smell like summer, and taste like summer, in hawaii...it SUREEEe does not feel like summer at ALL...

ever since school has begun i have slowly felt any trace of "a life" i might have had fly away...starting tuesday morning at 6am i wake up to sit in traffic for an hour and a half and make it juuust on time (if i'm lucky) to UH...then i get to sit in three hour classes for 10 hours straight...with just about 15 minute breaks in between...(i know its so awesome, RIGHT!?) but wait it gets better...the next morning i get to wake up at the same time...but here is where it gets good...i get to drive for an hour to Waianae! where i go to an elementary school from 8am to 240 then i get to go straight to another three hour class at LCC! Then i do that all over again the next day!! WOOOOOO however, there is somewhat of an upside...i have a four day weekend every weekend...BUT the catch is that i spend two of those days/nights working...and the rest leaves me barely enough time to study/do homework...and every now and then i can squeeze in some time for...whats that called again?? OH ya!  A LIFE...hehehe its not quite as bad as im making it sound....ok, maybe it is...HAHAHA just kidding..the classes that im taking are all about being a teacher so its not like its boring to me..i love it..and i really like (beginning to love) my student teaching/observing...SOOO now that i've caught you up on my "life"...if i haven't lost you yet..now i'll go on to talk about some of the fun things i've been doing here and there...haha

actually i've been talking way to much so i'll just throw in some pictures about now..ENJOY
sooo the first pics are from my trip to disneyland with the family last week...it was tons of fun, but four days with cranky sick family members and 3 babies was more than enough time to teach me i don't want to have kids for a WHHHIIIILLLEEE...hahah but it was a fun trip and i also go to spend some time with Maika and Keri..which was tons of fun...when i got home my awesome boyfriend surprised me with a fisheye lens he had bought for my nikon camera at amazon.com...i was SOOO happy!! its super sick and takes cool pictures as you can see...the last picture ( cherie you'll like this) is of a camera i got when i went on my hour shopping spree at urban outfitters when Maika and keri took me to the Spectrum in Irvine...It's super cool and takes sequence shots..i can't wait to use it and try out the cool film I bought tooo!! Oh and on a closing note I made two pairs of earrings today and a necklace which are the sickest yet i think...its night time now so i'll wait til tomorrow to take pictures then hopefully i can post them soon...See what happens when I don't post frequently enough, i go way overboard!! so i'll just stop. right. now. ciao...hehe that rhymed