Posts Tagged: canadian made jewellery

Let’s Party!

Thanks to everyone that attended our Grand Opening Christmas Party!  The evening was a huge hit!  Here’s how great the place looked before the guests arrived!  Please remember to join our mailing list to get an invitation for next year’s bash!  Here are some SPECIAL thank you’s that we sent out to the people that… Read more »

Change is good

So this beautiful trip I took across Canada in September was truly inspiring in many ways. As many of you know I picked up a dear friend who has been living in Kelowna for the past 12 years.  She made a decision to move back to Ontario for many GREAT reasons.  Still, she left behind… Read more »

Making it Just Right

As you all know most of August was taken up by moving into our NEW studio space.  We are all loving the new space and owning it makes it even more special. When we started packing boxes at the old place I felt so overwhelmed!  How am I ever going to get to unpacking?  How… Read more »

The How’s Don’t Matter

Do you ever over-analyze EVERYTHING???? I sure do!  I think it’s what makes us the smart, intelligent, powerful women that we are!  But when is enough? Enough? Dawn and I sat down a while ago and talked about how we were working the business and whether or not our “jobs” were in line with what… Read more »

New glam girls in Bruce Mines

Last week I headed out with my favourite traveling buddy, my Mom, and went to see all of my Northern Ontario customers!  Along the way Mom and I stayed in a little town outside of Sault Ste Marie called Bruce Mines.  We stayed at the Bavarian Inn, a quaint little motel right in the heart… Read more »

The Hummingbird Ball

Every year in May Hamilton Health Sciences has their annual Hummingbird Ball!  I have had the pleasure of participating for 2 years in a row now.  I am there to launch the latest and greatest Hummingbird piece of jewelry to help raise money for the CIBC Breast Assessment Centre. Many of you have purchased the… Read more »

One of A Kind

Woooo Hooooo!!!! What a great time we had at the One of A Kind Show this spring!  I am truly grateful for all of YOU!!!!!  Let’s face it, it’s been a loooooonnnggg winter and many of us have been feeling fed up and frustrated.  We were all so excited about the OOAK show here at… Read more »

Montreal

Let’s go back about a month……..so it’s one week before the One of A Kind Show…there is lot’s to do and I find myself hovering….”Wayne is the website up to date?…..what are you doing about our booth lighting?” “Dawn do we have enough julz?….have you made enough earrings to match all our necklaces?”……geeeezzzz even I’m… Read more »

Jeff Bartels

Well let me introduce you to another famous brother!  This is Dawn’s brother Jeff Bartels.  Many of you know how talented Dawn is with all of the beautiful julz she creates here at , well apparently that talent runs in the family. We had the pleasure of seeing Jeff at Studio 561 in  Toronto where… Read more »

Gobsmact

I am so excited to be writing this blog that I don’t quite know where to start.  I suppose I should start by saying that I am a VERY proud big sister!!!! Even though my brother is going to be 40 this year…..is it wrong for me to say that I am still a proud… Read more »