emiko-o reware

It’s December and Viking Angels are ready for Holiday Action! New LEGO minifig earrings for the holidays to suit the viking, raver, and santa lover in everyone. Just posted them up on Etsy, only for the holidays.

EXCITING NEWSFLASH: Announcing 2 new locations for emiko-o reware jewelry:

Phoenix Museum of Art Museum Store in Phoenix Arizonia (love the museum stores!)

Localpatron Holiday Store on Grant St (@ Green) in SF, CA (double love their selection of local Bay Area artists and designers; I can’t help but drop serious dough when I go in there to bring new work…). Localpatron is only around for the holidays, so shop before Jan 15.

Want to choose from a huge selection of my latest work in person? You’re in luck; I’ll be selling at the first ever SFMOMA Holidaze Craft Fairs at the SFMOMA Artists Gallery in Fort Mason, Building A on Dec 12 & 19, 11am-5:30pm.

This coming Thursday, Sept 10 I will be back at my alma mater Syracuse University (it’s been over 12 years!) to do my Top Ten Tips for Post Grad Success workshop for the Jewelry & Metalsmithing Dept, plus give an evening artist talk at 7pm. The workshop is only for students, but I believe the artist talk is open to the public. The talk will be held at the Comart facility at 119 Comstock Ave, Room 022 (see poster below).

emiko SU poster

I’m super excited to share my decade+ of real world experience with the students, as I often hear that Professional Development is not covered in the classroom and SHOULD be. The Professional Guidelines (co-sponsored by SNAG, Harriete Estel Berman, chair) is definitely going to be an underlying thread to the afternoon, plus interactive activities, worksheets, demos. Get ready for brain explosion!
Highlights from the lecture will be posted on this blog in the weeks ahead–so stay tuned!

LEGO Blue Steel Necklace and domino bracelet

The evening lecture will focus on my work from the last 4 years, mostly the LEGO series, so if you’re in the area, bring your buddies along for a trip down brick geek lane…..

Last month I joined the Bay Area LEGO Users Group (BAYLUG), and found a great community of LEGO lovers like myself, one of the benefits being the opportunity to show my work in an actual LEGO retail store! Who would have thought! So if you ever find yourself in the Hillsdale Shopping Center in San Mateo, cruise on by the LEGO store and check out my Duchess 2 necklace in the Window to the Community display. BAYLUG has a relationship with the Northern CA LEGO stores, and rotates the displays (also in Valley Fair mall) every 6 weeks or so.

duchess 2 in Hillsdale LEGO store

Hillsdale LEGO store

Yet another article by ReadyMade magazine, this one a bit different than the “Miss Modular” online article from last month. Currently on the newstands for the June/July issue, check out pages 18-19, I’m featured as a Maker in “A Lesson in Legos“  by Kathy Barnes (note: what appears to be a mispelling of LEGO is not, but rather a style sheet rule that the magazine follows).

emiko-o in ReadyMade

In case you’ve never seen my first ever Cartier in LEGO, let me introduce you to The Duchess. She debuted in Florida this winter at the Florida Craftsmen show, and will come out again for the upcoming show here.

Here she is:

Here is the original Cartier bib necklace in amethyst, gold, turquoise. Created for the Duchess of Windsor, 1947. 

So now you can meet the next reiteration of Cartier, Paris, The Duchess 2. It is based on an emerald and diamond necklace by Cartier, Paris, and a matching pendant by Harry Winston, 1960. They were created for, you guessed it, the Duchess of Windsor. Here is the original:

Here is my LEGO version using various sets handed down from cousin Jeanne & David. The large segment of the necklace breaks away from the rest of the necklace and can be worn as a pendant:

2 weeks and counting until My First Royal Jewels Jewellery Collection is to be installed at the SF Museum of Craft+Design. Amped up on adrenaline, the necklaces are really moving along. You’ve already seen a preview of Cartier Blanc, now for my Boucheron remake. Titled, Maharajah’s 6th, it is a take on the “white jewellery” craze of the 1920’s, just like the Cartier Blanc piece.

Here is the original Boucheron sketch of a necklace in diamonds and emeralds, designer for the Maharajah of Patiala, 1928.

Here is my necklace in the works:

For all you Batman fans out there, I’ve created new, elegant, Batman LEGO earrings for a night out in Gotham city! Bat Orbit earrings are made out of LEGO, aluminum, rubber cord, with sterling silver earwires. Batman logo in gold and black on top disk. Webmaddymatt has just added my brand new summer line of *e*oware lego jewelry–check it out!

Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull opened today! Will it surpass Spiderman as the highest grossing film? To celebrate this long-awaited film, today I introduced to my etsy page my NEWEST Limited Edition earrings: Indie and Marion 4, Irina and Guard, and of course there must be an Indie and Marion Classic.

Speaking of earrings, my red and white classic space earrings (“adventure 5″ on my website) made an appearance on GreenYour…. Recycling artist, Harriete Estel Berman saw it up yesterday and let me know. Random but awesome!