emiko-o reware

For the month of October, art jewelry web retailer, Object Fetish, is featuring my jewelry and doing facebook promos as you see here in their e-newsletter. Just go to Object Fetish on Facebook, sign up, and get 5 friends to sign up and you’re ALL entered into the drawing! With more drawings for bracelets to come. Object Fetish is a great site, international scope, and certainly an honor to be featured. Go see my page on their site!

You won’t want to miss my last holiday event of the year, happening today, Dec 3, from 4-7pm at Interstice Gallery in the Mission! If you haven’t been by the space yet for one of Shana’s previous events, make sure to come out this weekend and get in the holiday spirit with us. Today I’ll have TONS of LEGO jewelry for everyone on your gift list: NEW kids pendants and bracelets; long, swingy pendants on sterling chains; cufflinks, plus sophisticated new color combinations like Aura, Aegean, and Cashmere. I’ll have my full catalog handy to take Pre-Orders with FREE SHIPPING for items I don’t have on hand. My event is featured this week in THE LATEST AND GREATEST on BoldItalic.com.

Also, NEW LEGO Greeting Cards! So much fun to style and photograph, this is definitely going to be an annual, recurring product. Inspired by our Accessorize with Toys workshops and all those board game boards, I’ve made Upcycled Ornaments and Table Tops Trees, all which will be at the gallery this weekend. Not to mention the Hugging Dinosaurs ornament series (hard to resist the Golden Dinos, or anything spray painted gold, for that matter). If you’re on facebook, you can see the event posted there and also on Shana’s blog.

Speaking of ornaments, come by the gallery on Sat, Dec 4, from 1-4pm for our Ornament Making Party. Make your own ornaments from recycled game/toy parts and I’ll spray paint it gold to give it extra pizzazz. $20 gets you all the ornaments you can glue gun together, plus treats and mulled wine. It’s addictive, and you’re guaranteed to go home with successful projects, perhaps even gifts.  The SF Chronicle listed our Ornament Making Party as one of the Eight Great DIY Holiday Gift Workshops!

Interstice Gallery
3443 26th St, between Mission and Valencia, SF

It’s that time of year again for the awe-inspiring, 2-day extravaganza that is Maker Faire! May 22-23 at the San Mateo Event Center. And yes, Accessorize with Toys workshop will be there for its 5th year, and finally this time in the Expo Hall where we best belong! We’re going to be in the craft section of the hall, somewhat near LEGO (very fitting for me, yes indeed). I know many of you missed us last year as we were in the Show Barn with Tech Shop, but this year we should be much more accessible.

And now Accessorize has a FACEBOOK FAN PAGE! Can you believe it – well, you can help us out right now by becoming a fan so that we can get our URL. We only need 44 more to go!

This year we have some projects for people to create: Personalized Name Badges, key chains (level: Easy), and Expressive Charm Bracelets (level: Advanced). To cover our costs so we can continue to bring the workshop to you, we’re asking people for a donation of $3 per project made. So don’t forget to bring some change with you! And of course bring some of your favorite toy or plastic parts from home to incorporate into your projects or just bring to donate. Nowadays Goodwill and other thrift stores are not accepting toy donations, so bring them to us – as long as they are smaller than 2″.

Here’s the skinny on the event:
When: Saturday, May 22, 11am-6pm; Sunday, May 23, Noon-5pm
Where: San Mateo Expo Center (where the county fair takes place). Parking is $17 (yikes!) but free parking is a 15 min walk away at Franklin Templeton. Check out the Maker Faire link on getting there. Carpool with your peeps! Caltrain and Sam Trans buses are great ways to take public transit there.
Cost: entry to Maker Faire starts at $20 for advance adult tickets, less for youth and students, MORE if you purchase at the gate. To make a project with us is a suggested donation of $3 per project.

Hope to see you there!

emiko interviewed for SF Chronicle

It’s been a busy press month for me thanks to the fine PR efforts in conjunction with the Palo Alto Art Center’s STYLE 2010 upcoming trunk show, this coming Saturday, April 24! In this Sunday’s SF Chronicle’s Style section, I was interviewed by the lovely Jeanne Cooper about my emiko-o reware jewelry from LEGO (see the pink outlined section in the article above). My Pink Martini bracelet looks fabulous in print, and even better online in the SFgate.com article, where my Mondrian bracelet is also featured (see image below). Check out the online article and photos.

Mondrian bracelet by emiko-o

Also, for all my facebook Fans and friends, you already know about the use of my large LEGO necklaces in the current issues of both Gentry Magazine and Scene Magazine (San Jose Mercury News Spring edition). It’s non-stop but it’s the only way I operate I suppose…

Gentry Magazine April 2010

San Jose Mercury News SCENE magazine Spring 2010

And even Metro Silicon Valley newspaper interviewed me and hit the stands this past Thursday, April 15, which I sadly missed getting being up here in SF (drudging through taxes and the dreaded check writing). Hopefully I’ll get my hands on a copy and can share with you all soon!

Come say hi to me this Saturday from 10am-5pm at STYLE 2010 at the Palo Alto Art Center:
1313 Newell Rd, Palo Alto 94303
The trunk show is an annual fundraiser for the Palo Alto Art Center Foundation. Buy for a great cause, take note from my dear  friend Liz Brown, seen here wearing my silver hubs trio necklace on her way to Chicago!

Liz in my silver hubs trio necklace

It’s about time, already, right! Finally got on that darn facebook train, much thanks to my inhouse techie master and many late nights of navigating through the ever-confusing user interface! All you facebook folks out there following my blog, go check out my emiko-o fan page at http://www.facebook.com/rewarestyle. Become a fan! While away the wee hours of the morning with me and my new black  hole of webness….cheers!

In hour 2 of Marla Johnson Norris‘ presentation for the Professional Development Seminar, (yes, that previous post was only the first hour!) she whipped through the benefits of Social Networking.

Harriete Estel Berman's facebook

Yes, the dreaded Facebook–ok, maybe I’m being overly dramatic in my distaste for connecting with creepy high school ghosts, but from a business standpoint, it really can work for you. The selling point: the Media LOVES it. Sure, creepoman can still find you, but so do curators, tv stations, and gallery owners!

Which brings me to the next dreaded portal that is even starting to steal Facebook’s thunder:

twitter

Twitter–did you know that 54% of twitterees are female? And the Media eats this stuff up; through twitter the news channels find out about breaking stories like the Santa Barbara Fires, Swine flu, etc.

So if you are considering tweeting, remember these points:

Have a Strategy. Be Interesting & Positive. Relate it to the News. Be Search Engine friendly. Integrate with blogs and other social networking portals.

Which brings me to the last point I want to share–link up your social networking sites, by using the SHAREBAR and bookmarks. See example below from Sienna Gallery. See the Facebook icon and addthis icon at the far left? Go, join, get found.

Sienna Gallery