Fall and Winter Collections 2010

For this upcoming season, I have been inspired by the designs and styles of the 1950's and 1960's era. I am working on two distinctive collections.  The first style, I call Retro Funk, and is everyday casual costume jewelry, with a 1960's Mod  look. I am incorporating  fun and unusual vintage lucite beads, with chunky brass and copper and silver beads and chain. The second one is Vintage Glam....... quite glitzy,  Hollywood inspired  but with a modern edge. Think of your Grandmothers sparkly, rhinestone jewels that have seen better days, and imagine creating a similar  new design that will work with todays fashions!  I have used rhinestones, crystals, and pearls, with some fabulous, rare, vintage findings to create some fabulous contemporary pieces that will look great over the Christmas Holiday season....and even look wonderful when worn casually with jeans. Mix it up!! 

 So once again I hope to post photos for you soon, however I still cannot upload pictures to this blog. I believe that it is due to the MAJOR trouble we are having with our  satellite internet service provider, and our speeds currently being very slow. My husband has spent countless hours talking to these people, and service does not seem to be in their vocabulary!  What happened to the good old days, when someone would come out to your home and fix your problem??? Anyhow...who knows when that will be back to normal, it is a very SLOW process! So keep checking my  Hotrocks Facebook page  for photos, as I seem to have better luck uploading images there. Pin It

Nigella Lawson and The Daddy-O Diner

What does Nigella Lawson, and my jukebox got to do with eachother? Well, for Fathers Day this weekend, I am converting our basement family room into "The Daddy-O Diner". We are lucky enough to have a working 1958 Rock-ola juke box, so we can play all our cool 45 records! We have tunes ranging from the 1950's up to the 1980's on it, Elvis, Patsy Cline, Beatles, Stones, Beach Boys,etc. so there is a good variety. I am serving barbequed hamburgers, and we are making ice cream sundaes with homemade chocolate peanut butter sauce. I got the idea for these amazing sundaes from the domestic goddess herself, Nigella Lawson, that very sexy British cooking lady, that makes sinful food look... well ...guilt free! If she looks that good, I will make it and eat it, and look great too!! I am going to use my vintage sundae glasses, and vintage drink glasses, and I will make some cool decorations. We have 4 children, ages, 10, 18, 28 and 31, a son -in -law, and 2 grandaughters, ages 2 and 9, so it should be a blast! I am going to see if the kids can put away the cell phones, and video games for an afternoon..(good luck with that one!) and we will play some old fashioned board games, and maybe I will even break out the Twister game! Anyway I think it will be a fun way for the kids to celebrate with their Dads! And ..no Dad does NOT get a visit from Nigella!

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