::new:: website

This might sound weird, but there have been a number of times that I didn't know that I was pregnant until it's time to give birth.  This time, I had no clue until I was 8 weeks due.

No, I didn't have a human baby...

I birthed a business.

It literally grew in me at record gestation.  It was always in me- but, this summer, it fertilized and it grew.  In a matter of weeks, I labored and pushed...

I spent hundreds of hours sketching, designing, importing and making around 200 handmade pieces of jewelry.  I taught myself new jewelry techniques, and website building.  I went out and bought a wardrobe, styled and photographed models, then edited, rephotographed, edited, and literally woke up to a website.  It felt alike a dream or whirlwind, or some kind of crazy transport in time.  I'm not sure why I felt the need to do this... why it needed to be born right now... or for what purpose this new direction in my business is going... but, here we are, and I'm holding my dream in my arms.  It's kind of exciting to let life just happen.

www.modernmamajewelry.com

nautical inspiration.

 

 I am a nautical nut.  My house is mostly decorated with sea treasures from the Caribbean, Florida, and the Carolina coast.  I grew up in Florida about an hour shy of the beach, and when my husband and I relocated to the countryside of NC, I found myself yearning to hear the waves.  So I adorned my home with calming colors and things that would remind me of my roots year round.  Summer is always fun because we come back from our beach trips adding to the collection of driftwood, sticks, shells, bottles of sand, sea fans, sun-bleached coral pieces, etc.

beach inspired jewelry

I was able to get away with my husband for short cruise during our family's spring break a couple weeks ago.  The beach is my happy place.  It was so nice to clear my mind.  Only, I kept seeing textures, colors of gemstones, and new summer inspired designs with every turn!  Here are a few nautical inspired rings paired with some stacking bands and gemstones!  And, also my Receding Wave Band.