There's nothing evil about it....
Ho hum… SariBlue has gifted another celebrity, I say with tongue in cheek!! Because let me say, there is nothing mundane about it each time is super thrilling. Now, I don’t like to compare those that I have been lucky enough to gift, it somehow feels like comparing my children, which as a parent (if you are one) you know is simply not right!
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Wow! Talk about a whirlwind start to 2012! I cannot believe it is the end of March already!! The start to the year has just flown by like the wind……
I hope you saw our post about the Earth Day event that TAG sponsored for an outrageous list of celebrities. The TAG team created eco-friendly gifts which will be delivered to the homes of these celebrities on Earth Day, April 22nd. Have a peak at my post if you have not had a chance: SariBlue Earth Day Post.
On that list of cool eco-conscious celebs was Drew Barrymore. Which among a long list of very exciting people thrilled me! She is someone who I have admired for a longtime.
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The Artisan Group has teamed up with a one of their partner PR firms to create specialty gift bags for some of Hollywood’s high-profile environmentally-conscious “A-List Celebrities”. TAG will be gifting eco-friendly, organic, green and socially-conscious products from group members on Sunday, April 22, 2012.
SariBlue is super excited to have our business card included in this gifting opportunity and simply amazed at the celebrities who will be made aware of our shop. SariBlue was included in this opportunity because we fit into the eco-friendly profile of the Earth Day focus.
The SariBlue collection (Sari is pronounced “sutter”, means blonde/blondie/yellow in Turkish) uses exclusive Turkish handmade glass beads which are made using centuries old traditional methods to craft the beads.
This method may be one of the oldest eco-friendly recycling techniques around. Turkish artisans collect recycled glass pieces, mix them with special dyes and melt in their primitive adobe furnaces that burn naturally clean-burning pine logs. They shape the red hot molten glass, fuse colors together and create these amazing beads using only simple hand tools. Every bead fashioned has its own identity, lending every SariBlue piece its own distinctive nature. The collection ties together past and present in a distinctive, modern way. Our shop is very focused on finding other ways to support green efforts as well as supporting charities that are focused on spreading the efforts of sustaining the earth and teaching people to use local resourcing. We happily support The Samburu Project and The Walk for Water on March 25th.
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Rachel Weil, Publicist, Writer, Owner of Weil Public Relations, and recently a member of the Press who attended The GBK Oscars Luxury Lounge. Rachel has such a fantastic job! Imagine attending cool events, meeting fantastic people and then writing all about it for a living! Oh and she was also gifted one of TAG’s Press gift bags. Talk about a very chic role! Check out her article posted in The Culver City News! She obviously had a fantastic week leading up to The Oscars. Isn’t it great that she mentioned SariBlue, The BeezKneez, A.W.E, O.C Styles and Oops I Knit It Again from The Artisan Group! Many thanks to Rachel for her focus on the GBK Event and our wonderful little band of Artisans.
http://www.culvercitynews.org/latest-news/let-s-talk-oscar-suites/
Gifting suites were all the talk leading up to the Academy Awards. The lounges showed off the best of brands at some of the best locations around town.
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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!
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!
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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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
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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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
“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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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.
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.
If you prefer to shop directly, please send me an email at sari@sariblue.com and we can easily make arrangements.
Meet Sari; She had been leading a creative life vicariously through others since childhood by means of ardent artistic admiration for culture, history, film, art, music and fashion while working in a world of international high-tech. Finally in the early spring of 2011 something called out to her: the historic Nazar Boncugu (the Evil Eye Bead). This calling developed into SariBlue, where she has been setting her creativity free.
