I can never say it enough... I am 100% a FAN of The Arts! A recent COOL HUNTING find brought to my attention by a friend of mine (Thnak you MD) has to be the one of the greatest uses for overlook and under appreciated products brought to us throughtout every day life! Who Knew...
 "Just released by art director Justin Gignac, Security!™ is an 18k-gold-plated sterling silver version of plastic security tags stores put on clothes to prevent theft. The piece, meant to be worn as a pin, stems from the NYC-based artist's idea (he's also behind the popular campaign Needs for Sale) of elevating mundane and overlooked items in our everyday lives."
 Taking this in a different direction still surrounding The Arts... You have GOT to check out this site Wants for Sale! The concept behind this art has a true flair of creativity combined with jest! I absolutely luv it! Each painting is of a WANT  the artists have and then that exact piece turns around and is sold for the cost of the item in which the painting features! So for example a painting of a slice of pizza is only $3 while a Nintendo Wii goes for $270.92, when the painting sells the $$ made is used to buy that exact product! L U V!!!! Check it out! Below are some of their GENIUS works of Art that not only ring true to me, but just so happen to be FAVs of mine yay !
                                             

This weeks holiday shopping pick comes right from none other than trusty Etsy! It is so hard to narrow down my favorites when it comes to shopping and browsing on this site... It is seriously nearly impossible between the 100's of thousands of creative designers to the even more extensive lineup of supply distributers!
Todays designs comes to us from Charleston SC's shopshrew! These unique sterling silver and gemstone jewelry designs are simply breathtaking and seem to have a staunch devotion to the feel of real winter! This one is my winner of the week and I should only dream about spoiling myself with this designer fav. As I mentioned before this little beauty candidly bestows a sense of Winter so where better to wear my shopshrew fave than to ICE a little corner off Arizona and Santa Monica that year after year is  marvelously transformed into a bona fide Winter Wonderland! This years festive "Ice at Santa Monica" has been splashed with a bit of trippy 60's hippy groove thanks to Herbal Essences and public art meister Ed Massey’s Portraits of Hope! Check it out its simply fabulous!

With Thanksgiving approaching and Holiday shopping gearing into full swing, I have been surfing the web for those $$$ worthy $$$ find$ of the season. This morning while making yet another gift guide via mental list I came across piece of jewelry which quickly sparked childhood memories of an all time favorite candy of mine!!! What reminded me... none other than Kate Spade and her fabulously designed and equally cleverly named Pop Rocks Ring!
This 80's age old candy always finds a way to my heart, from the traditionally flavored strawberry and cherry to the seasonally spiced pumpkin (pictured up top- which i have yet to try).
With more recent additions such as the pop rocks dips and pop rocks the topping! There is even an Urban Legend to go along with this wicked little candy- one I am fearless of!!!! Death by Pop Rocks as it was recently debunked by Discovery's Myth Busters! Lethal combo... Ha! The only thing lethal about it is how fabulous Kate Spades Pop Rocks Ring is!!! Happy Holiday Shopping!!!!!!

Xx Peace and Love J-Lynn

Last night was such a lovely night! Thank you so much to everyone who made it out to enjoy some wine and jewels! I appreciate all the support and love, the night was nothing short of fabulous! Thank you to Inez for being such an amazing host and thank you to Kathy for helping me make all of this possible! It was for sure a night to remember and again thank you everyone! I was lucky enough to have Donny take some good photos of the Paaartayyy! Ha! Here they are to share and more to come! Xx J

It has been a long time coming and it is almost here!!!! Seems like forever since I have added any new pics of my jewerly and I thought it would be nice to give you a teeny tiny sneak peak into a few of the things I have been working on for this upcoming Thursday! Please bear with me and my self-shot pics (nothing can compare to the fabulous photos I had take a while back by a good friend of mine!)http://megansmall.com/ But nonetheless I managed to take a few decent ones of some designs in store and wanted to share them!!!! Enjoy & I will see you there!!!! Xx J

Xo J-Lynn

I feel like recently I have been a bit hard pressed for jewelry topics to blog about...  But, today while reading one of my all time favorite and ever so inspiring blogs Cupcakes and Cashmere I was reminded of a past post of mine Thinking Outside The Box all about jewelry being displayed! I totally agree with Cupcakes and Cashmere blogger Emily about her following statement... With jewelry though, it begs to be displayed, whether it’s pouring out of an antique box, hung as wall art (you can see how I used to organize my necklaces here) or kept in pretty little bowls.
I think that Emily really tuned into the idea of thinking outside the box with her recent post and couldn’t be more right on about the fact that jewelry begs to be displayed! Below I have included some additional pictures that Emily shared with us via her blog as well as what I like to call a RP, a RePost which is similar to the RT, a ReTweet from Twitter.  Enjoy!!!!!! Peace & Love - J Lynn
                                                                    (Picture taken by Emily of Cupcakes and Cashmere)