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Collectors Delight

By User ImageMiss Tique • Nov 19th, 2008 • Category: Bazaar

Each new season, Visionaire magazine promotes a visionary idea or concept. For their last edition, in collaboration with Lacoste, they came up with the wearable book.
No. 54 of Visionaire was created with the help of several world-known designers and photographers like: Peter Lindbergh, Karl Lagerfeld or Pedro Almodovar. Visionaire 54 Sport , for this [...]



Studio 1980

By User ImageMiss Tique • Nov 18th, 2008 • Category: Featured

by Anjali S, Studio 1980
I always wanted to create something different unique which people wear every day to special occasion which will enhance their look more. Coz every one is beautiful jewelry just makes them more beautiful. I wanted
some thing different but never get it so i decided to make it myself and all my [...]



Blue Bags

By User ImageMiss Tique • Nov 17th, 2008 • Category: Bazaar

I read NY Mag often enough to find something appealing every time. Today, I stumbled upon this store (above pic is also from the same page) and thought of asking you if reality is as good-looking, appealing and fancy as the image. I don’t know how many of you live in New York, but if [...]



LazyBreeze Jewelry

By User ImageMiss Tique • Nov 16th, 2008 • Category: Featured

by Melissa, one of the two ladies owners of the venue
“Originally, I started LazyBreeze Jewelry with my cousin’s wife to help her sell her stash of handmade jewelry. She’d been making them for years and had at one point tried to sell them, but the friend who was helping didn’t follow through. I offered to [...]



Covered Ladies Designs

By User ImageMiss Tique • Nov 15th, 2008 • Category: Featured

by Debra, one fantastic artist
My name is Debra, and I have been designing clothing for nearly 40 years.  My journey into the Muslim clothing market began in 2007, when I was inspired to use my skills to make clothing suited to the taste and way of life of modest women.
Covered Ladies Designs is an internet-based [...]



Un-Conventional

By User ImageMiss Tique • Nov 14th, 2008 • Category: Featured

by Tracie Pennypacker, the unconventionalist
The brand name, Un-Conventional, transpired from a brainstorm moment. I thought it was the most suitable way to describe my pieces, and even decided to use the word in an unconventional way!
Each necklace I create, is a one-of-a-kind piece that has a special name and story behind it. When I [...]



Jewelry Hunt and Mystery Gift Contest

By User ImageMiss Tique • Nov 14th, 2008 • Category: Editorial Mix

It’s raining jewelry!

Gorgeous prizes and a mystery gift awaiting!
Beads, silver, earrings, bracelets, fire beads, Rhonidite stones, Gold Leaf Agate stones, sheen and sparkle put together for pampering the jewelry seeker!

Enter and win! Good luck, jewelry hunters!



Designs By RuKar

By User ImageMiss Tique • Nov 13th, 2008 • Category: Featured

By Karen , the Kar in Designs by Rukar
I started making jewelry when I was 10, using layers and layers of color construction paper cut into shapes of graduated sizes, glued in a stack, then sanded smooth when dry. I would cover with shellac and then mount on a ring blank.
I got into bead weaving [...]



CVH

By User ImageMiss Tique • Nov 12th, 2008 • Category: Featured

by CVH herself
My name is Cathy van Hoang and I’ve been doing photography for about 10 years. My obsession with taking pictures probably stems from the fact that my own memory is poor and a bit random. I’ve always felt the overwhelming need to photographically capture things as I saw them so that I could [...]



Gypsy Jewels by Willow Moonspirit

By User ImageMiss Tique • Nov 11th, 2008 • Category: Featured

A story about Gypsy Jewels - told by a moonspirit.
I am Juliea - creator of Gypsy Jewels by Willow Moonspirit. I have been making beautiful things for beautiful people for over 7 years, and I am always looking forward to the future. Gypsy Jewels believes in high quality products at an affordable price because times [...]