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Sweet Tooth
So, Valentine’s Day is tomorrow, and my family has already been “celebrating” all weekend. No, not breakfast in bed for mom and dad prepared by the kids, not time set aside early for a romantic date night. No, I’m talking about the boxes delivered last week from the annual candy fundraisers for school.
Isn’t [...]
Conscience
I sometimes get asked why it’s so important that all the metals we use at okomido are completely recycled. Does it really matter that much?
The truth is that I’m not really interested in finger-wagging, and there is so much beautiful jewelry out there that I can appreciate and covet as much as the next [...]
Terroir
I’ve been obsessing over color recently. Remodels can do that. This project has been particularly exciting, actually, because the original space was so dark and poorly maintained that the transformation was really dramatic. It kind of gave me license to choose bolder hues than I might have done before, because it just [...]
To bangle, or not to bangle?
I’m sure you’ll agree, I have a fantastic photographer. He just gets what the line is about, and he knows how to make each piece of jewelry look great. Sometimes he even makes things look–how to put this?–larger than life. Take, for example, the image below:
Over the past few months, I have [...]