{"id":7,"date":"2017-10-17T18:55:00","date_gmt":"2017-10-18T01:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/desertdaisyjewelry.com\/blog\/let-your-jewelry-come-to-life"},"modified":"2018-09-21T17:16:45","modified_gmt":"2018-09-22T00:16:45","slug":"let-jewelry-come-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/desertdaisyjewelry.com\/let-jewelry-come-life\/","title":{"rendered":"Let Your Jewelry Come to Life…"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Talking about my Holiday collection with my friends and family this year has been so exciting, I am excited to share it with all of you. The last collection of each year is always fun and over the top, what better time to create big and sparkly showpieces<\/g> than Holiday? This year is no exception. But, instead of introducing you to the line through photos of the jewelry (which are coming, don’t worry, Jamie Y Photography<\/a> did an amazing job on Sunday’s shoot), I wanted to share the story of how inspiration hit while I was on vacation this summer and a little bit of how my design process works.\u00a0 If you are more interested in just checking out the gems, please follow along on Instagram as the collection will be unveiled there, and watch out for the Nov 9th launch party in Las Vegas, and Nov 10th website update. For everyone else… read on!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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This summer, Dave and I went to England and Scotland on a 2-week<\/g> vacation. I was so ready to get away from the hot Vegas summers and clear my head from all the work stress that comes from owning your own business.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On the second day in England, I had an aha moment that shifted much of the trip into a work trip, thankfully my husband is a go with the flow kind of guy and was happy to play along. This portrait here started the inspiration rolling.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n \n\nWe were leaving Manchester and starting our drive down to the Oxfordshire countryside for a few days. On the way out of the city, we decided to stop at Lyme Park, or the home of Mr. Darcy in the 1996 BBC version of Pride and Prejudice\u00a0(called Pemberley in the miniseries). Walking through this huge estate, lined with Elizabethan and Victorian age formal portraits, we came upon the dining room set for a party… with no one there (see the picture below). Somehow, instead of honing in on the beautiful gilt details or the laboriously carved wood walls, I saw my Holiday collection come to life.\u00a0\n\n \n\n\n\n <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n \n\nImagine, nighttime in this room, a table set for a modern party. The women in the portraits have watched a thousand dinner parties happen, and decide it is time to crawl from the frame and join in. Entering the room, they realize how outdated their fashion is, the standards of female costumes having changed so much over the years. Instead of feeling self conscious and heading back to the relative obscurity of their frames, they decide to strip themselves of the layers of their wardrobe and unbind their tightly coiled hair. Wearing just their slip dresses, hair wild and free after being plaited so tightly, and leaving on their layers of extravagant jewelry, they are free to be themselves in a room of strangers.\n\nWith that image in my head, I began to see inspiration everywhere. In this collection, you will see shapes and textures inspired by the landscape, architecture and fashion of Tudor England. There are nods to Canterbury Cathedral, Tudor homes like the below Little Moreton Hall, and plenty of lace and pearls, but all reimagined in the Desert Daisy way.\u00a0\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n \t\t\t\t\n\n\n\n\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n