Dear Jesus!!! .. I .. I … would be so happy in Beijing, China

AHHHHHH 600 Salesss!!! and my first video blog :)

Woke up this morning  and as I was getting my coffee and just walking around like a zombie at 7am I sat down in my desk and opened up my mail to wake up to 600 sales!

To me each purchase is as surreal as the first one I ever made and allows me to live my dream of living out of what I do.. is not about the money , the number ,  I think of the amount of pieces I’ve sent out of my workshop and knowing people get them and still write me and say they use them to me it makes me just too happy to know 600 pieces are out there all over being worn and all of them where made here the same place where I am writting this….

When packing I imagine a person wearing it .. a piece of jewelry as simple as it might seem to some people has a life of it’s own as soon as a person gets it and wears it ..

It can create a memories…

Seeing it in your dresser and  remembering a loved one ..

It can make you blush if received as a gift by a special person ..

It can make you smile when you see the post man and he hands you an envelope and you know what’s inside..and you secrety quietly go ” YAAAAAAAAAAY”

I can keep going and going ..

To tell your little daughter ” you can’t wear it now but you will when you are older”

In a day that you don’t feel good you grab all your favorites and wear them out just to go buy bread and feeling beautiful , unique it’s a special feeling.

Some pieces are made and when worn say ” I am an individual”

Jewelry , clothing is not just that .. is not just metal hanging from our necks or a piece of clothe in out bodies , is how the world sees us .. the image we create of ourselves for the world ..

Some people make things to sell, some others make things which they have a personal bond with and I’ve said it before even if it’s the smallest pair of studs they are kept like a treasure by me until I ship it to their owner..because it’s something I made with my hands and it means a lot to me for someone to appreciate this.
Thank you each and everyone of you who has supported me .. I Love you so so much! And to celebrate the 600 sales! I’ll have free shipping offer in all items from June 18th to 26th !!! in the ShOP

A hug for all of youuuuuuuuuu!and Thank you ♥

Wahaaaaaaa made a Vblog and I don’t even know how to upload things to youtube and came out awful!

Poor Tango is getting a shot today…

First fair and using facebook to apply pressure to myself ha!

I’m going to my first fair ever..it’s a design fair and I am so excited, I just got the news this week!

The fair will be held in a really nice Hotel in July .. I’ll give you more details later

I usually never have over 10 pieces with me in my workshop, I usually make things as they sell .. Sometimes people tell me like ” ohh can I come over and see your pieces” … and  I have noooothing but my own jewelry which are mostly pieces that I don’t even wear but are precious to me in a way and are hidden like my treasure..

I don’t even have displays for the fair!

Soooo in order to apply a bit of pressure to myself I want to make 50 at least and I made an album on my facebook page to upload all the pictures of the pieces of the fair.. to me it’s insane to have 125 fans and I’ve been getting messages about the fair so its like WORK !

Like I wrote over there that way also i can get a bit of feedback and see what pieces work better

I’ve been working on larger pieces like Martirio, and this is the kind of route I want to take..

I am VERY excited and well mostly because it’s something new, somehting for me to learn from and who knows maybe if this one goes well I might start going to other fairs..

Adieu!

this song it’s been playing for a week in my house and the neighbors are complaining because I try to match his singing

This song is so beautiful … so sosoooo beautiful :

First girl I loved,
Time has come I will sing you
this sad goodbye song,
When I was seventeen, I used to know you.

Well, I haven’t seen you, now, since many is the short year,
And the last time I seen you, you said you’d joined the
Church of Jesus.
But me, I remember your long red hair falling in our faces
As I kissed you.

Well, I want you to know, we just had to grow;
I want you to know, I just had to go.

And you’re probably married now, house and car and all,
And you turned into a grownup, female, stranger.
And if I was lying near you now,
I probably wouldn’t be here at all.

Well, we parted so hard;
Me, rushing round Britain with a guitar,
Making love to people
That I didn’t even like to see.

Well, I would think of you.
Yes, I mean in the six sad morning.
And in the lonely midnight,
Try to hold your face before me.

Well, I want you to know, I just had to go;
I want you to know, we just had to grow.

And you’re probably married now, kids and all,
And you turned into a grownup, female, stranger.
And if I was lying near you now,
I’d just have to fall.

Well, I never slept with you
Though we must have made love a thousand times.
For we were just young, didn’t have no place to go,
But in the wide hills and beside many a long water
You have gathered flowers, and they do not smell for me.

Well, I want you to know, I just had to go.
I want you to know, we just had to grow.
So it’s goodbye first love, and I hope you’re fine.

Well, I have a sweet woman
Maybe some day to have babies by me,
she’s pretty,
Is a true friend of mine

Good way to start a monday..with their songs on playback and a massive cup of coffee..

The Magesty of simplicity .. and people using others as covers because they can’t be themselves

Simple things often turn so hard to achieve..

I don’t know, I’m not sure if I am doing things right sometimes but I just go towars what feels right.. and what feels right to me is to do things as simple as possible..

I am not talking work wise.. I am talking in my life, the person that I am I like to keep things basic.. everything I don’t dream of being rich and spending all my money, I don’t dream of becoming the ultimate jeweler designer and have galleries and reviews in magazines..

Sorry If I seem plain and dumb ..but i guess I could be plain and dumb but happy .. I want to have a house, live alone make jewelry all day , run the normal errands , go for walks with tango, go to the beach when i feel tired , look at the sun and eat gigant cookies..

There’s such beauty to listen to a song , to look at people walking by .. it makes me feel I don’t need more..( YES , you can think i’m a hippie dumbass but not quite..passed that stage already and now i don’t have anything to prove , don’t judge by the long hair )

Here’s the thing I am a bit weird in the sense that I like my balance and I like all these things that well are there available to all of us ,the so called  simple pleasures..

But when something comes along that breaks this peace , this balance this tranquility it kills me and I get so stressed and down.. it’s silly when I am stressed I can’t do anything. I am blank .. like someone unplugged me I just want to take naps..

Ladies and gents I must tell you what happened to me.. why this talk , why this topic?

Someone sent me a link and said I should look at that.. and I found a lady online using my site.. saying that she had a jewelry business.. with my site.. To what point should we share our lives online ?

How sad and pathetic is to have to use someone else to draw attention to yourself? are you not good enough?

I felt bad.. then mad .. now I’m blank .. I reported the whole thing and first I though I’m gonna talk to her.. but is useless..

I wish I could scream this outloud: What is wrong with being ourselves? We are individuals and that;s the magic of it ..

Why copy, use , claim something is not yours? I don’t see how that would make anybody feel good using somebody else as a cover.. it would only make you more depressing , we all have it inside us, the ability to be original to create ..

I don’t get it …

It’s in there, look for it you could work anywere , live in any town , have nothing or have a lot but still you are you and nothing is gonna change that..

I am done with the topic..makes me sad in a deep level to be used like that..what am i ?  And if you , you know who you are ever get to read this know that behind a website , an online image there is a person that lives day by day .. using the pictures the , the site MY WORK is using me ..

An yes I am very sensitive with this things , to me it is a big deal 

Hope you have a good sunday .. today I am not doing anything I am letting my brain rest and stop thinking for a while ..

The very stressed,

Nat

Cubism and flamenco.

Where can I start?

This pendant was made thinking of 2 things , cubism and the spanish flamenco singers/dancers.

So what we have here is a play with metal I used textures for the hair, brushed and lifted the nose a bit to create a shadow several very small details.

The bail was made to seem like the big adorned combs they use even including a tiny flower, but keeping the sharp shapes to go with the rest of the piece

I like irregular forms but I wanted to keep it all inside the circle.

The eye is a round glass domed cabochon,it has an eye design impressed into the backside and painted, and then the backside is coated in silver foil. The iridescent colors of the eye show through the clear glass dome, and shift from pink to green depending on how the light hits it.

Why Martirio? there is a spanish singer ( ICON ) known for using extravagant hairpieces and black sunglasses when preforming .. when I was making the piece I made the bail to look like a headpiece thinking of this artist.

Here’s a song :

this pendant can be found in the Shop

Oleeeeeeee!

hi, my name is Nat.. I make jewelry and have a vanilla ice cream addiction

- I have more hair than most people and I don’t pretend to cut it…

- I sold my bike because I can’t use brakes on anything.. also I don’t own a car or want one.

- I can be very very quiet with people I don’t know… after all I can be very shy when starting a conversation.

- I love weird , unique bags.

- When playing sports i’m always the one to mock

- I have 4 brothers and 1 sister.. divorces can make fun mixes.. I am the oldest.

- I hugged a cow once (10 yrs old) . and she regret  it.. cows don’t like hugs..

That’s all I can write right now now.. because it’s 8am and I have not had my coffee..

Hope today something good out of this world happens to you!

-Nat

So now you see my world is… Cos of this tune…what a boon this tune!

About Etsy sellers helping eachother and my attempt in modeling…OH ! and by the way I am back and running!

You guys have to check this out

My friend Juan makes batik clothing and some amazing one of a kind items , when I first visited his workshop I almost fell in the ground ..

I shook him (literally) and said ” YOU NEED AN ETSY SHOP” .. and we sat down and talked about it he decided to go for it and now he is selling online..

http://www.etsy.com/shop.php?user_id=7416275

He made a whole batch of clothing just for etsy and had yours truly model them

In some of the pictures I might look possessed and for this I apologize but I am incapable of keeping a straight face

Also you can see my eyebrow fully healed .. Doc finally gave me the green light and I can do all my normal errands now…

So I am writing this little note so you check out his brand new shop , before I purchase everything myself hahaha!

A hug to all of you!

Adios