Noir Bracelet

Just one of the many pieces that I worked on before the holidays!

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Testing a Feed - Ignore! :)

  Hey everyone, don't mind me -- we seem to be having a little trouble with some of our RSS feeds so we're testing a few things out.  But here's a picture of my little Roxie if you'd like something cute to look at! :)

 

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Never Left ... But I'm Back

Well.  I could make a lot of excuses about where I've been the past couple of months, but the truth is that although I never really left, it's just been a difficult couple of months for me.  A week to the day after my last entry here on the blog, I wound up in the hospital for gallbladder surgery, and although I bounced back from the surgery quite quickly, the weeks just continued to offer up one-two punches for a while.

In particular, I've been dealing for some time with a personal family situation about which I haven't yet decided whether I'm prepared to discuss openly.  For now, I will say that it has been an extraordinarily challenging period for me and my family, and for a time it was imperative that I hunker down and concentrate on my family and myself. I've been dog tired!

On the bright side, however, for the first time in a while things are looking up, and is that ever a welcome change!  For one thing, my hubby Doug and I decided to proceed with our 2nd annual Halloween Costume Party, and it was lots of fun!  Nothing like a bunch of crazy friends dressing up and dancing the night away to brighten one's spirits!!  I have some awesome pictures that I'll post very soon.

Another bit of welcome news is that I believe Isabelle Chase Studios will be showing up in some press come December or so.  If and when it happens, I will be posting the links!

Now that I'm emerging from my self-imposed time-out, I'm excited to be looking ahead to the holidays and beyond to the new year.  I'm getting a little ahead of myself, but I'm already anticipating that 2011 will be a fantastic year!

TTFN!

Happy Saturday!

Enjoying a perfect afternoon at the shore, which wouldn't be complete without a dead crab with which to torment one's sister. Blech!!

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Gorgeous Custom Pieces

My wonderful client, Danielle Lavis of Danielle Lavis Photography, LLC in Clarksville, MD not only creates stunningly beautiful photography, she also has an eye for customizing jewelry!  Check out the custom version of our Noce Necklace she came up with by upgrading it with our jeweled CZ photo charm -- something even I hadn't have thought of -- and it turned out to be fabulous!  Lucky for me, turns out Danielle is also a gifted product photographer.  When I didn't have time to photograph her pieces before shipping her order, she quickly snapped these amazing photos of both the Noce Necklace and the Jeweled Toggle Necklace.  I told her I need to hire her as my product photographer!  LOL  These images and more are on her blog.

If you're lucky enough to live anywhere near Danielle (Clarksville, Maryland), do yourself and favor and book her!  And thanks, Danielle, for making my job a little easier today. :)

Remember, most of the pieces on our website can be customized in many ways so they become even more personalized and perfect for you!

Yikes! (aka, Open Letter of Apology to our iPhone & Droid App Users!) and an Offer

Well.  Nothing like starting a blog, putting out an iPhone and Droid app, and then not updating them!  Way to go me!

In all honesty, I PROMISE I didn't forget.  Had a few things going on the past couple of months that left me a little depleted in the creative energy department.  The passing away of a dear friend sidelined me a bit, even more than I anticipated.  About the time I started to feel like myself again, all the busy end-of-the-school-year activities began, with two kids "graduating" from 5th and 8th grades.  Very cute, lots of fun, but BUSY!  Then there were a few hitches in our ICS Jewelry app which took a lot of wrangling with the developer to correct.  I believe they're taken care of now, but you'll have to let me know if things don't appear  to be working correctly.

In any case, I think we're finally back on course!  I will not leave you all hanging again, I promise!

While I'm thinking about it, let me take the opportunity to ask you if you've joined our Facebook Page yet?  We're going to be doing a lot with it this year, so be sure to come on over and become a Fan, or "Like Us"!  In fact, let's do this:

Through the end of this week (that's through Saturday, July 3rd, 2010), if you become a new Fan on our Facebook Page and drop us a comment telling us you heard about it through this post (whether reading it here, or through our iPhone or Droid app), you'll get a 20% off coupon.  

You've got to post a comment or we won't know that you came from this post. :) We will message the coupon to you via Facebook.

Just call it a little peace offering for being such a bad blogger the past several weeks!  And look for lots more great stuff this summer.

Have a wonderful day!

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