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Silver Pendants support jewelry designers all over the world. As designers we share similar joys and challenges. Carmen Rosa Gamio Alvarez is a jeweler in Peru who recently received a microloan from Nina Designs. Reading her bio, I was struck by how much all of us have in common as jewelry designers, business women and moms.

Alvarez discovered her love of art early. When I was a little girl, I liked to draw, and today I have a lot of fun designing and creating jewelry. I think it awoke the latent child artist in me.

She adores her job. The silversmiths art runs through my veins and I love itFor me, my art is a fusion of fantasy and reality.

She struggles with the high price of silver. The rising price of silver is seriously affecting my work.

And she relishes being a Mom.

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Carolinna Espinosa Shoes at Central/Central

Carolinna Espinosa shoes at Central/Central.

Wed like to introduce you to Carolinna Espinosa, a Spanish shoe designer with a fabulous shop within a shop in Central/Central.

Carolinna Espinosa blends Italian designs and craftsmanship with Spanish design flair. Her shoes are trendy and fashion-forward, and we love their cheeky east-meets-west themed ad campaign called “Five Chinese Elements” based on Metal, Wood, Water, Fire and Earth.

To capitalize on the quintessential Chinese heritage, the campaign was shot at many landmark locations in Beijing including Great Wall, Grand MOMA, CAO Chang DI, 798 art zone and Fragrant Hill Park.

Where to buy?

• Central/Central , 1F, Central Building, Central, Hong Kong. Tel:

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Life is full of special moments, but some moments are so special they call for commemoration. Weddings, anniversaries, birthdays, losses, special accomplishments, life-changing moments.

Weve had the privilege of creating personalized jewelry to help our customers commemorate all of these types of special moments  some joyous, some sad, each one very significant. Creating a piece of jewelry that holds a very special date can provide comfort, joy, pride, peace. It is one of our favorite types of jewelry to create.

You might be surprised to discover how many different ways we can present that special date on our jewelry.

• As a number 7/26/11
• In written date format July 26, 2011
• In Roman Numerals -  VII XXVI MMXI
• In any other language that uses the Latin Alphabet (the alphabet English uses)
• In Chinese Symbols
• In Hebrew
• In any other language using a non-Latin Alphabet as long as you can provide us with a high resolution image of your date

So, whats your special date? S

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This week’s episode was The Wiz­ard of Oz. The show began with Ken­neth Cole’s noir direc­tive for Hol­i­day 2011 — clearly a nod to the per­sonal style of Wicked Witch of East. It was black, black, and more black: black dresses (didn’t we already have the LBD chal­lenge…?), black pants, black faux fur, and black jack­ets. The acces­sories had to per­form their magic against, and at the same time not mon­key around with the Ken­neth Cole clothes pro­vided to the designers.

Tin-Man Brian showed his lack of heart while mak­ing his hand­bag, the sculp­tural horn han­dle of which required so much drilling and sand­ing that the work­room was like the poppy field, mak­ing peo­ple ill with fly­ing resin par­ti­cles and gen­er­ally shift­ing the mood to one of lethargy and much pique. Then there was our lion-hearted Adrian who was try­ing with all his might to tame his wild design nature and find a gen­tler approach. Diego, our man of straw, seemed to hav

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Your honey went to all the trouble of choosing an absolutely gorgeous rock for you to flash on your third finger, but if your cuticles are thrashed, your nail polish is chipped, and you’ve neglected to use lotion for the past week (leaving your hands drier than the Sahara desert) you may not be too keen to show of your hands or your band. So if you’re just dying to waggle that finger in the face of anyone interested enough to look, here are just a few good ways to treat your manual woes and get your hands in presentable condition.

1. Dry skin. Even if you’re rushed in the morning, take a minute to apply some moisturizer to your hands. Immediately after a shower is the best time since your pores are open and ready to absorb moisture and lock it in. Look for a thick, creamy lotion (like Jergen’s Shea Butter Lotion) that will leave your skin soft and smooth.

2. Yucky nails. Even if you’re not a nail-biter you can end up with some pretty mangled claws if you don’t pay attention. You should

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