First Giveaway!!! (CLOSED!)

Warrior Tassell Necklace (limited)

It's finally here! The first giveaway! Be one of the first to own a piece from my line!

This is a thank you for all your support, and also, to celebrate my upcoming jewelry line which I can finally unveil soon!

I'm giving away one of my beaded tassel necklaces, including my limited edition Warrior Tassel Necklace (pictured above).

Beaded Tassel Necklace in Coral

Good Luck Tassel Necklace in Howlite

All available colors and designs

This is open to EVERYONE! (No matter what part of the world you live in)

Requirements to join are simple. Here's how!

1. Follow this blog
2. Follow me on twitter @samcastweets

3. Re-blog this giveaway (Optional +5 additional entries)

4. Re-tweet this giveaway - be sure to tag me so that I can see it! (Optional +1 additional entry)

5. And then just comment here with your email address, blog entry, twitter (optional), and which necklace you want.

I will announce the winner in about 2-3 weeks and contact you via email if you have won. Good luck to everyone!

Where the Magic Happens

A necklace from my upcoming jewelry line.

It's been awhile, and I must say, I missed you all! I've been working on my line (what else), and it's taking longer than expected just cause most of the time I'm on someone else's time considering the fact that I don't have a car here. I miss my Cooper :(

Other than that, I've been contemplating on my return to the US and have been looking at interior design inspirations here and there. Oh, and I finally caved in and got twitter, I would love it if you guys would follow me - @samcastweets!

And lastly, I'll be in Hong Kong the end of the month (SO EXCITED!), despite that I think we already have our itinerary planned, it'll be great to hear your thoughts on places, stores, malls, RESTAURANTS, etc. that I should go check out!

P.S. The giveaway will come soon! It's just postponed for a bit.

Giveaway Announcement + Joji Kojima

I've been pretty much obsessed with finding beautiful stuff on the internet. Fashion, art, design. My soul is sad but my eyes and brain are not. They are hungry. Hungry for pretty.

I've also been really hard at work with my jewelry, and have been experimenting with using unusual materials other than beads, such as bones, preserved insects, and other cool taxidermy items. 

Which is why it's no surprise that I ended up in a website called "all that is good & pretty" (also where I discovered Nick Gentry). While doing research on taxidermy jewelry, I came across an unbelievably cool designer named Joji Kojima. Check his items out and see for yourselves! I swear, no one does it better than the Japanese!

Lastly, as a celebration for the upcoming launch of my jewelry line, and reaching 100+ followers (THANK YOU!), I'll be having my first giveaway soon! So stay tuned for that!

Cray CRAY!

Pictured: Necklace (it's just one but has a lot of chains) designed by me, new short(er) hair, and my room! Yes, my room in Manila is a bad ass rock climbing mini gym. -- No, that wasn't a joke

 Sorry for not posting. My life has been, as the title says, CRAAAZY! And not in a good way either. Because of all the craziness that's happened, I'll be here in Manila for the next few indefinite months (so yes, I shall be a blogger living in the Philippines for a bit), and since I won't be in the US, I unfortunately won't be able to blog for Claire's this coming August. Which of course SUCKS, but hopefully when I get back, I'll be able to do that. 

On a high note, I now have a lot of free time to work on the jewelry line (and then some), make up the lost time I have with my family and friends, and basically rediscover my roots!

This coming week, I'll be having a shoot with some of my jewelry, so I'm crossing my fingers that I can start showing you guys some more stuff, and start having items for sale!

And I'll end with a picture of my dog and my boyfriend's dog :) I miss my puppy so much!

Hope everyone is doing well!!!

Haul + jewelry + BIG NEWS!

Some bracelets from my upcoming jewelry line

I would like to apologize to all my readers for being a bad blogger. As most of you may know, I'm about to launch my own jewelry line, which means that most of the places I've been going to have been the marketplaces (for materials and such). Also, when I'm here, I really enjoy going to these marketplaces because not only are they cheaper, but they have such unique items that are only found in the Philippines. 

Since it's marketplaces I've been going to, I don't want to bring my camera and start taking pictures because I don't want them to think I'm a tourist (I did grow up here after all) and hike up the prices. So I hope everyone understands the lack of pictures.

But that doesn't mean that I don't have ANY pictures! Here's my haul so far (sans my materials which is going to take up an entire suitcase) and some more pieces from my upcoming jewelry line + the big news under the cut!

Memorial Day // Brand

I love sales! So it was no surprise that I took advantage of all the great deals most shops had this memorial weekend. 

Don't get me wrong, I didn't go all out either, I just bought some shoes, accessories, and a pair of JEANS! You don't understand! For someone who's as short as me with chicken legs, and no tush, it's insanely difficult to find a good pair of jeans that won't cost me an arm and a leg.

On other news, as I mentioned in my last post, I've been working on setting up my brand/shop, and it's a lot of work! Mostly because it's literally just me who's doing everything; research, filing paperwork, sourcing, designing, etc. So it's taking a lot of my time, plus, not having my car 24/7 at the moment is making it more difficult for me. 

Here's a preview of one of my main pieces that I'm going to include in the first collection

 

See more under the cut!