Insta Love // Re Elle

What influences, inspires, sets your heart on fire?  Curiosity about what does that for other people opens up new ways to get inspired and lit up.  I love to watch what my jeweler peers are doing, what they are being moved by and how that eventually turns up in their work.

My Insta Love feature will now be all about this: my favorite outtakes from the jewelers and artists we house in the shop.This art form and craft, at its best, goes beyond making pretty little things.  It is tapping into the same human and universal mysteries that all art gets itself into.

Today I am sharing some of my favorite shots from Brooklyn designer Re Elle.  I own one of her Fold Cuffs, it is a daily wear that feels a part of my body.  Her feed is one of my most heart-throbby.

Follow her @re_elle
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INSTA LOVE // Installment Five

1 // @emmabrooke [Emma Genevieve SAN FRANCISCO/ EBB & FLOW].  I stumbled upon her sweet vignettes and love each and every time they come up on my feed.  Great shots of Bay Area things.

2 // @hokaytokay [Everybody is trying / NY&LA].  I love the rich colors and slightly strange compositions that have just enough off about them to create a real curiosity.

3 // @pioneerbabe [Tehya web design + development].  Pretty girls.  Pretty scenery.  Pretty art.

4 // @lorecrosier [Loren Crosier // Oakland, CA. Graphic Designer and Art Director].  Delicious weekly graphic design collages and simple little compositions.

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Insta Love // Installment four

1 // @jimmymarble [sooooooooooo LA.]  Photographer/videographer hailing from Los Angeles.  His feed is filled with images that are inviting but slightly surreal and odd.  I love his portraits of unusual and pretty gals.

2 // @imogenewillie [Our story is probably exactly the same as yours… just with different character names.]  A well loved denim brand from Nashville.  Just simple and beautiful images of real people making real things.

3 // @chasinghygge [An Italian in Copenhagen, Denmark.]  My dear friend's girlfriend, Valeria, who has a great eye for catching the small details in the world around her.

4 // @jennifersashley86 [Stylist. I also like to build and make stuff. Portland, OR.]  Gorgeously styled images with a rustic feel.

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Insta Love // Installment Three

As you may know, I love Instagram.  I love seeing the creative ways people approach their photography, and I tend to follow a lot of artists and creative types.  It's an inspiring little thing to do while I have some down time.  Here are my favorites this week:

1// @sarahswelljewelry  [Oakland, California based jewelry designer. Precious metal treasures made by hand-the real deal.]  I love Sarah.  Not only as a friend, but I totally admire her as a fellow jeweler and she has a killer Instagram feed.  I mean, come on, look at her signature Fishbone series, it makes my heart skip a beat every time.  We carry some of her work at Crown Nine, they really are little treasures.

2 // @avfkw  [Textiles. I love them. And food. And plants. Natural dyes too. Preferably made in the USA.] Kristine is the shop owner of A Verb For Keeping Warm, an amazing Oakland store for knitting, dying, spinning, quilting, and all things textile.  I love Kristine's feed because it's full of dye vats, shiburi, and the behind the scenes on how fabrics are made.  

3 // @justinhager [Get at me.]  Justin is an artist, I especially love his hybrid posts.  They are so perfectly wrong, a grafting of two unlike units of pop culture into one hilarious mash up portrait. It kills me every time.  Other favorites: Danzig with Wolves,  NWA Team,and Little Wayne'sWorld... and pretty much all of them.

4 // @waywardspark [Off-grid forest living, beekeeping, goat milking, barbecue baking, organic farming, woodworking, and raising two cute kids in rural Western Oregon.]  Pretty much sums up how my fantasy life is being led.

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