Top 100 Shops 2014!

Still catching my breath... so beyond honored to have been chosen as one of the Top 100 Shops 2014 by the SF Chronicle.  The story was featured in the Sunday Style section; we were nominated by taste-maker and author of This is Oakland book Melissa Davis.  I cannot even begin to describe how wonderful it feels to be recognized in this way.

It is also so lovely to see all the traction in Oakland.  I love this city, with all it's complexity and layers and I am so proud to call it my home both personally and professionally.

Thank you to everyone who has been supporting us over the years-- my little dream is nothing without the community of people who appreciate and love what we are doing, not to mention our bad-ass team-- Christina and Solee I'm talking to you!

Thank you!  So full!

In celebration, we are offering a 10% discount through October for those on our email list.


High-five everybody!

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This is Oakland // Book Release

Tour some of Oakland's best restaurants and retail nestled in 5 distinctive neighborhoods. A nice little sliver of our big, beautiful and complex city.

Flipping through the dense and rich photography of the pages, I was astonished at how many places I had never been to or heard about.  It reads like the best kind of to-do list.   And!  Old Oakland has a beautiful little spread featuring all my pals in the neighborhood, and yours truly!

The book sold out in the shop on it's first day and I am getting more in today.  Come in to the store or get it online.

Also, save the date for a super fun launch party taking place next weekend in Old Oakland to celebrate the launch of the book.

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SF CHRONICLE // Heavy Metal Jewelry Makers

I was featured in a really beautiful feature this Sunday in the SF Chronicle's Style Section Jewelry Issue.  I loved the article that Maghan McDowell wrote focusing on women finding their niche working with heavy metals, tools, and ancient techniques.  She really captured what I love about my job, the feeling of wielding tools, torches, and hammers to create pretty things that mean something to both me and my clients.

It was a total honor to be featured alongside some other Bay heavy-hitters like Salty Fox, Marissa Haskell, The 2 Bandits, and Kendra Renee Lawrence.  Check out their work, Marissa has her own beautiful shop in the Temescal Alley that is totally worth seeing with your own eyes.  We really are so lucky to live in a community that is so supportive of jewelry artists-- and being a member of the industry has been such a pleasure. 

"Kate Ellen Metals has a rough, hard-to-place timelessness that seems not of this world - or of this century. And that's just the way she likes it. Using what she calls a "looser" aesthetic with recycled silver, gold and diamonds, the 32-year-old native of West Marin's Forest Knolls has been making jewelry since 2009. Before then, she had been a social worker and a teacher with a creative instinct but no natural talent, she says, until she found metalwork. Her dad worked in construction, and she was drawn to the contrast of using rough tools to make something beautiful and "girly." Many of her pieces (generally $85 to $450) are cast in sand to achieve an intentionally gritty texture. One of her favorite first works inspired her popular Little Rock ring; the original was created out of melted jewelry that had belonged to her grandmother, and namesake, Ellen." READ ON >>>

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