Pigeon's Poop

This blog post is very, very special to me because... It's Pigeon Dynamite's FIRST custom wedding bands and the couple kindly allowed me to interview and share their experience. The rings are both 14k gold but they wanted in different gold; Kevin wanted his to be yellow gold and Paul was white gold. At the first initial meeting, they briefly told me what they like, and what they don't like. Since I knew Paul from the design school years, I understood his design preference and what his style was right away; he wanted something has little more unique twist with heavier texture. On the other hand, Kevin prefers something simpler but same tone of organic style.  They brought the basic requests like Kevin wanted something thinner with yellow gold and Paul wanted bit of uniqueness in design in white gold. Then that was pretty much all they requested, and the rest was left in my hands. There are couple of things I must say why I loved working with th

Firstly, my prayers are with those who lost their families and friends from the earthquakes in Japan and Ecuador. It has been really difficult for me to check the news and see how many people have lost their homes. Even close friend of mine who lives in the area near Kumamoto told me her friend's family lost their home. It is unthinkable how much struggle these people are facing every day and I feel so small there is not much I can do but there are some ways to help them through the organizations: Japan Time: How to Help (links to support relief) UNICEF: Support Ecuador  These days, I really cannot see any reason why I should be complaining about anything. Every night, I go to bed and say thank you in my head because I really am thankful for everything. I don't know particularly whom I am thanking to; I am not religious but I am blessed to be where I am, surrounded by the people in my life. It is so easy to get used to having everything you need, things and stuff. 

This is not an April Fool's Joke, but I finally became an official business owner of Pigeon Dynamite! It's now registered in NYC, which means it's a registered business in the states. This is so exciting and feels wonderful.  I've been doing this for a while now but things have been going well and it was time. Before I started my original collections, somewhere in my mind maybe had a slight doubt if I could keep doing this for living. (but quite frankly, I just didn't wanna do the paper work for the most part..ha ha ha, I know it's terrible. ) It sounds like a dream-doing what I love for living, right? I just deci ded to give it a shot . I had separated my dream from my first career choice of becoming an interior designer because I was not happy with my job, and I told myself not to worry about it because I found great joy in making jewelry with my hands and wanted to move forward from then on but maybe I was not confident enough. After