Officially official

This just in-- Isabella Jewelry, LLC is officially Deephaven's newest business! Well, at least as of Friday at 5 pm...

Now we are able to get production rolling and start prepping for our first house party at the end of September!

from the home office

Unable to sustain the costs of broadcasting from "the great Minnesota get together" like the much cooler local news and radio stations,
today I blog from the home* office on Lake Minnetonka.



Isabella, LLC is moving along and we are waiting patiently for our reply from the office of Mark Ritchie. We've been focusing on R&D, which coincides nicely with helping our brothers find back-to-school clothes...and maybe a gold-studded wood bangle and some black ankle booties for ourselves...just maybe.

We've noticed the trends this year include a few major things everyone should know:
-chain (mixed metal, layers, chain and bead mixes, chain hanging form earrings, tank tops and necks)
-Hanging beads and clusters (See Anthropology.com for some nice examples of statement pieces as well as simple and trendy)
-From Vogue to former Project Runway winners, the talk surrounding current fashion trends flirting with an 80s throw-back means BIG, A LOT and A LOT of BIG. Although at first it sounds frightening, I am pleased to see it is not in the form of a T-shirt ring tie and crimped bangs, instead it can be seen in feminine, embellished tank neck-lines and statement jewelry.


Thinking of all of you
in the jewelry we're creating,

Sarah



*To clarify "home," I mean the home of Chuck and Julie Welle. At the moment Isabella is unable to sustain the costs of a livable salary for its executives. However, like the Target execs profiled in today's Star Tribune we look toward the future with hope.

Isabella Jewelry, LLC

Its official! Well...almost official. We met with a lawyer, known to some of us as UT, on Monday and discussed our options. We've decided Isabella is best suited as a Limited Liability Company and we are excited to get the ball rolling. The papers are signed and probably sitting at the bottom of the Wayzata mailing bin at the moment...as we used the old fashioned POST, but Isabella is one step closer to being an official small business of Deephaven, MN.

Woopwoop!

~S

p.s. This process has been a learning experience in a variety of ways, and one of those experiences has been having the pleasure to gaze upon our Secretary of State's web page for hours on-end. Due to my ignorance of the face behind the MN Sec. of State, Mark Ritchie, this may only be interesting to me. However, I suppose it is someone we should all know and recognize, so if you see him on the street...out to eat...or sitting at his desk in the Capitol? You can say, "Hey Mark!" I thought the picture needed an explanation anyway...

Bronzified

Our displays are almost complete- after painting them all with our beloved bronze spraypaint we are ready to find the perfect fabric for the background of our displays. The search is on for the right color to bring out the jewel-tone hues of our upcoming jewelry line...

Treasure Hunting

Another day of project "Isabella" began at the Wayzata Community Church huge rainy muddy rummage sale. It was complete with laminated directional signs, where we were pointed to the "Marketplace." We scoured for beautiful hidden treasures...while someone else scoured for a different kind of beautiful treasure. Yes, Natalie!...there was a man "looking for mirrors"...and he was "looking for frames" too. Natalie deflected the distraction politely, only to be confronted by a middle-aged woman pointing at the frames under Natalie's arm saying "oh, look at those. I grew up with these on the wall and we had four girls in our family and we would all argue to be like 'I'm her, No! I'm her! and"...It was touching. Despite the cash-only sign at the check-out, we soon made it over to the Home Depot for the perfect bronze metallic paint to unify our frame-treasures.