1.31.2012

we won't stop. . .
new products coming soon!

1.30.2012

♥ We found our Alibi

This past Saturday I took a little trip to visit Jo.Liu, designer and owner of Alibi. Her boutique is located on Mulberry Street in the heart of Nolita. The shop is absolutely adorable and filled with many fancy jewels and accessories (her own creations and friends too). I must commend Jo on her interior choices for her store. Hello, Brooklyn Flea! She has found some amazing furnishings to compliment her style for the boutique. I love the vintage dental chest shown in the third photo. Amazing! So here is what we know: Jo has an eye for jewelry design, she's a graduate of New York University and Parsons School of Design, she has worked as an assistant designer for high-end apparel design house, and she owns her own boutique! What's not to admire about any of that? Just wait till you see her new collection!

In the meantime, check out some of Alibi's pieces here .

1.27.2012

Dream on Neon!

The designers are brightening up their runways and stores with the fluorescent sights of pink, orange, yellow, and green. Every year we fall more in love with the bright hues. We can't help it because it just kind of makes us happy. Check out some of these gorgeous neon pieces that we might just have to get our hands on.





All images are linked to their site.
P.S. We have jewelry to compliment these awesome threads HERE

1.25.2012

FAVOR, yes please!

She's the designer behind one of your fancy favorites, the coveted Bar Bracelet. Meet Monika Reed of Favor Jewelry. . .

Favor is a jewelry design and production studio founded by Monika Reed as a way to offer delicate, timeless, and sentimental jewelry, inspired by the shapes, stones, and metals found in the natural world. As nature provides the inspiration as well as the materials for Favor, she feels it is an obligation to act environmentally and socially responsibly. She carefully researches material’s sources and she is committed to American distributors, whom she feels confident are providing fair wages and are meeting ethical working standards. Monika designs and produces all of her jewelry in Portland, Oregon, to support the local economy. She uses natural gemstones and reclaimed, hypoallergenic, and nickel-free metals. Everything made of sterling silver and 14k yellow and rose gold are certified to be 100-percent recycled. Her 14k goldfill has verbal assurance that it is manufactured from post-consumer recycled metals. Additionally, she recycles all metal scrap, uses recycled paper in printed materials, and all packaging is post-consumer recycled, recyclable and reusable.

Favor jewelry can be worn day to night, season to season, and year after year. Monika creates products that are not meant to be disposable and that will not enter the waste stream for generations, if ever. While these facts may not be apparent, they are Favor’s underlying principles. Favor’s goal is to create pieces that feel good to the hands, look nice to the eyes, and are friendly to the environment.





Check out more of the collection HERE

1.24.2012

{Our Beauty Faves}

If we're not spending all our moola on some fancy jewels, where else better than to spend it away on beauty products. You know it's hard to resist the make-up counter. We're all guilty of our impulse shopping on yet another lipstick or mascara. So here are just a few of our beauty must haves! Yes, must haves! You need to get your hands on these products now. Trust us, you'll love them!

1.23.2012

Today marks the year of the dragon
—a symbol of luck and power.
Happy Lunar New Year Everyone!

Thank you!


The beautiful and talented writer Barbara Sueko placed a mention about
The Fancy Affair in her blog I have nothing else left to set on fire.

We're honored! Thank you B for being the first person to mention us in a blog post! Hearts!

Check out the post here.

1.20.2012

Office Space

Janel and I often talk about our future office space. It's a dream of ours to have a store front with a cute little office in the back with a little garden/patio with twinkling lights for summer evening soirees. I picture a night of friends, food, fun and fancy jewelry! Though I can't imagine renting a space in NYC for one obvious reason, the monthly rent! I have a feeling LA has a high ticketed price too, but let's just say the space would be bigger and quite possibly better. Check out these coveted work spaces. I mean who wouldn't want to sit on a cute pink couch for a work meeting.

All images via Pinterest