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LA’s The Place Mag Features Golden Globe Awards Gifting Lounge
High-profile online magazine LasThePlace.com has featured GBK’s Golden Globe event where SariBlue has gifted the ONE pendant to celebrities like Jeremy Irons, Tess Hunt and Ali Fedotowsky!
The Artisan Group Showcases Speciality Items at the GBK’s Golden Globe Awards Gifting Lounge
LA’s The Place recently discovered The Artisan Group, a community of talented artisans who have turned their passions into businesses that represent their hearts and souls.
Their handcrafted products were in the gift bag for the 69th Annual Golden Globes and stars loved the fanciful jewelry, items for home and bath, scents from around the world, imaginative paper items and more.
Stars with The Artisan Group’s artistry!
SariBlue Featured on The Artisan Group Blog
As you will read in this feature, it’s been a great experience to be part of this dynamic team! Be sure to explore the blog and The Artisan Group website for information on their events. You’ll also learn about the members of TAG and their top notch work!
We caught up with Christine and asked her a few questions about her unique “evil eye” jewelry line, and her experiences so far working with TAG. Here’s what she said:
Thank you so much for selecting SariBlue to be the Spotlight Feature for the week! How exciting! This comes at such a great time for the shop and for me. If it was yesterday, it may have been a little harder to answer these questions. I was running into a little creative block working on some new pieces and it was interfering with the flow of writing.
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SariBlue Featured on Jewelry by Saniki Creations Blog
I admire and appreciate Penny Cheng for her lovely work and her selfless support for her fellow artists. She is such a sweetheart
Please make sure to pay a visit to her blog Jewelry by Saniki Creations
Meet Christine Lorenzo of Sari Blue Jewelry, Featured Artist
Being a Jewelry Designer for a few years now, I can usually spot a designers niche, a signature touch, to what they produce… In other words, if I see a necklace/earrings/bracelet, most times I can tell you who designed it by what the technique, or materials used.
One such jewelry designer I can spot right away by looking at a piece is Christine Lorenzo of Sari Blue Jewelry. A fellow member of The Artisan Group, Christines signature Evil Eye Jewelry Creations is anything but evil.
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SariBlue Featured on In-Her-Shoes-Blog!
I feel really honored to be featured by Pati Lara on her spotlight at the In Her Shoes Blog. Pati is a fantastic person and I admire her focus on women and how we contribute to the world!
Also huge thanks to my friend Monica Collins from TG Bears for nominating me to be featured among this group of terrific women!
You can find the original article at http://www.in-her-shoes-blog.com/25/post/2012/01/first-post.html
This week’s Spotlight is Christine ‘Sari’ Lorenzo and SariBlue Jewelry
“Beautiful, simply designed jewelry to add peace, positivity and a bit of fun to your style! There’s nothing evil about it….SariBlue.” – Sari Lorenzo
Christine Lorenzo (“famously” known as Sari) describes herself as an Italian American who from birth spent endless hours with her Grandmother and NoniMa (Great-grandmother) listening to their stories and watching and learning their crafts and talents. “These women had such a great sense of self, family, daily purpose, of fitting in.” Six years ago Sari landed an amazing job with an international tech company that required a huge amount of travel. She spent weeks at a time in Turkey and was strongly drawn to the Evil Eye, at first not knowing why. She then began to remember the words of her Noni about certain people who had the power to cast Evil Eyes on others. For Italians the notion is called Malocchio. The Evil Eye is a belief that (crosses many cultures and traditions) a person can bring harm to you simply by looking with envy, then praising you, but with jealousy in their hearts. This simple look can affect evil, harm or misfortune often times unintentionally. The Evil Eye bead is meant to protect the wearer from negative forces or projected thoughts towards them; the bead itself is in fact a “lucky eye” – an amulet meant to defend. This then became somewhat of an obsession along with the amazing Nazar Boncuk, the bead you wear as a good luck charm. “I was hooked. So I was off and running with SariBlue.”
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Appreciation is a True Gift ♥
One of the most thrilling things to happen was Tess Hunt and her adorable boyfriend Josh Sussman, being such big fans of TAG, filmed themselves opening every single gift from all the TAG artisans, including SariBlue! Sweet Ms. Tess put on The “ONE” Pendant and said how much she loved it! She knew right away that it was meant to keep away evil!! It was so exciting! The level of appreciation was so humbling!
This is your chance to see all the gifts that the team created for this event. The unveiling of SariBlue’s item comes around 6:15 of the video, it is a lot of fun to listen to these two love birds enjoy this good bag.
SariBlue Featured On TTLRN
Check out this great online magazine, Things To Love Right Now, featuring SariBlue’s “ONE” pendant!
Raphael Sbarge was kind enough to share his gift bag from The Artisan Group that he received at GBK Production’s Luxury Lounge event celebrating The 2012 Golden Globes with TTLRN. They did such a magnificient job with the layout and photographing the pieces, don’t you agree?
The magazine has a unique left-to-right layout, so make sure you use the bottom scroll bar in order to see the entire layout and follow all the way to check out the entire TAG display; it is gorgeous!
See the article here.
SariBlue Featured on TaraDara’s Blog
Many thanks to Tara for this fantastic feature! It was originally posted at http://taradaramadeit.com/2012/01/etsy-shop-spotlight-sari-blue/.
Please also make sure you check out her shop of Award Winning Handmade Artsy Fartsy Fun Stuff at http://www.etsy.com/shop/taradara.
Etsy Shop Spotlight: Sari Blue
Sari Blue is one my fellow Golden Globe Gift Bag Contributors!!!
What do you make/sell on Etsy?
I am the designer and founder of SariBlue.
The SariBlue Collection is made of gorgeous handcrafted Turkish glass beads. These beads come directly from artisans who have learned the craft of these historic beads through generations. The SariBlue team travels to Turkey to work directly with craftsmen for their collection. The beads are then tied together in a unique and modern way for our original designs.
The collection is fun, colorful, very unique, adding a great conversation piece to any wardrobe; the pieces also add an ancient element of protection to your life by wearing the Evil Eye Bead.
Every piece of SariBlue jewelry has at least one Evil Eye Bead to help protect the wearer from the potential negative forces out in the world. It is believed that the wearer of Evil Eye Beads will not only be protected from negative forces but also be brought good fortune.
The collection includes: earrings, bracelets, necklaces, pendants, chokers and amazing multicultural baby belly bells.
Beautiful, simply designed jewelry to add peace, positivity and a bit of fun to your style! There’s nothing evil about it…
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The Path to the Golden Globes is Paved with Shiny Marketing Collateral & Golden Event Guides
By now everyone and their sister knows that my evil eye jewelry will be featured at the upcoming 2012 Golden Globes Gift Lounge event sponsored by The Artisan Group and hosted by GBK Productions at the L’Ermitage Hotel in Beverly Hills, California on January 13-14, 2012. At least everyone who knows me, stops by my site , Facebook page or sees my obsessive Tweets knows we are on count down!
100 of Anything is A Lot!!
Ah the life of an artist. A jewelry maker at that… Laze around and think of lovely things to create. Play with beads, sterling, chain and metal. Twist and turn until it is right, tear it apart until it is perfect and do it again. Sip coffee. Think some more. Match colors; mismatch them because it has more panache. Read obsessively about ideas, history and style. Present your work to the universe and like magic, people will adore it and be inspired!
POOF!!
There it is the story of how my work made it to the Golden Globes! LOL!!! OK, I am a goofy fairytale teller who wishes it was simple for all makers of lovely things to reach their ideal of success. In truth, as mine and all good Italian fathers tell their children “nothing good comes easy” and “work equals success”.
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Sariblue Featured on Frontpage of Stow Independent
Hollywood Glam from Stow Designer
By Ellen Oliver
Stow jewelry designer Christine Lorenzo will have her red carpet moment when her jewelry is given to nominees and presenters at the January 2012 Golden Globe awards.
Part of a luxury gift lounge hosted by GBK Productions, Lorenzo is one of several artists who are providing items for 100 gift bags, plus a display item to be viewed by the guests and reviewed by 75 media representatives.
“The Golden Globes – oh my gosh,” said Lorenzo. “I have such an appreciation of movies. I watch the nominations. I watch the movies. It’s such a big deal that I’m in this event,” she said.
Lorenzo sells her jewelry under the name SariBlue, a combination of “sari” (pronounced “sutter”) the Turkish word for yellow or blonde, and the blue of a traditional evil eye, the bead featured in Lorenzo’s creations. For the Golden Globes, Lorenzo designed a large evil eye pendant, featuring the vibrant blue bead accented with silver beads and smaller sparks of color and copper. The pendants will be packaged in a small tin bearing the evil eye symbol and also containing information about Lorenzo’s work.
You can read the full article posted online at
http://www.stowindependent.com/JewelryDec7.html
Meet Sari; she is a passionate jewelry maven who adores eclectic craft, not only her own but other artists who are open and devoted. SariBlue is her culmination of exploration into culture, art, life and the love of all things fantastic. With a unique focus on the evil eye her shop was opened this past spring to high praise across cultures. The collection ties together past and present in a distinctive, modern way. Sari’s pieces are fun, colorful, a great conversation piece, and add an ancient element of protection when worn. Beautiful, simply designed jewelry to add peace, positivity and a bit of fun to your style! There’s nothing evil about it.
