My favourite customers Part I – Sue from Oz

One of the best things about running a business like this is because it’s so personal, I get to spend a lot of time with customers. Sometimes that’s face to face at shows, sometimes it’s on-line or via email.

Sue modelling N2660 Liquorice Allsorts 'Cleopatra' Necklace (approx £83.00) and E95 Black Gloss stud earrings (approx £9.00)

Some of my customers I’ve been dealing with for a long time and there are a special few in particular I have a bit of a laugh with and look forward to hearing from.

One of those is Sue, who’s a huge Jackie Brazil fan based in Oz, and I’ve been dealing with her since the early ebay days.

She sent me a couple of pics the other day and I thought they were great, so, after getting her permission to publish them, here they are – our very own Ozzie model! Of course, it helps that she’s pretty gorgeous and I know my other half thinks so too – I could tell by the way he pretended to nonchalantly ask me who it was!

Honestly, subtle as a brick that man …

I also love this photo – here she has her beloved E95 black studs in place again, but how about THIS for a classic Australian shot! Honestly, it’s the sort of thing you could put up for a caption competition and yes, that really IS wallaby stew. Lunch anyone?

Thanks Sue – these are great!

Clare

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‘Statement Necklaces are definitely IN’ according to the Telegraph’s fashion guru

I was perusing the papers the other day as I often do, and noticed an interesting article in the Telegraph’s Fashion section about statement necklaces which I found to be a pretty nice summary of what’s going on at the moment. If you’re not sure what ‘statement’ actually means, the definition, as with most things in fashion, is a little subjective, but really I think it all comes down to size, colour and ‘stand-out-ability’ (OK, so I made that last one up) ie, making a ‘statement’

We have, for some time, referred to Jackie Brazil pieces as statement pieces, and it seems this expression is becoming more and more mainstream. Although this journalistic piece refers to the work of other designers ranging from High Street to High Fashion, the message is still the same: The statement necklace is most definitely in and the predictions from the fashion people in the know is that this is going to be even bigger in the 2011 season …

Good job I love wearing ‘em! Happy days for me!

The article is here and worth a nose if you have 5 minutes:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/fashion/hilaryalexander/6995238/Lola-and-Tali-Lennox-model-Freedom-for-Topshop-jewellery-for-springsummer-2010.html