the upcoming jewelry line is being finished up and I can’t wait to get everything put together finally.

ellie from mint interviewed a bunch of entrepreneurs (and me) about how they deal with goals, deadlines, procrastination for a guest post at pitch design union. turns out we’re all in love with to do lists. good to know that jeff from BOOOOOOOOM feels just as weird about paperwork as I do.

missmalaprop says “all the bumblesea jewelry is so dainty and delicate, and absolutely timeless”

bumblesea is finally in neet magazine, I’ve loved them since they featured my old band and interviewed me for the magazine

last and kind of least my blog was mentioned in this huge spanish news site, soitu. gracias. unfortunately they’re going out of business.

and this song/video is awesome. enjoy.

I want to buy all of elena gallen’s goods. her likes: high heels, area 51, and terry richardson. of course.

two headed bambi t shirt by fashion designer elena gallen

kate moss coke nose tote by designer elena gallen

I have some doubts about how healthy sea salt is in comparison to table salt, but it tastes all kinds of delicious. this has resulted in me running out of the stuff only a few weeks after purchasing it (shut up, I cook a lot.) I need more of the crack salt so I turn to google, which opened my eyes to the wonderful world of HIMALAYAN PINK SEA SALT?! this stuff looks so amazing it should not be edible.

bumblesea wishlist: himalayan pink sea salt

flickr photos, clockwise: 1. himalayan pink salt and goji berries by dessert first 2. salt of the earth by allanthinks 3. himalayan salt crystals by certified su 4.pink sea salt from natural green chemistry company by fooderati

in addition to pink sea salt, google also introduced me to an amazing blog called stuff white people like. stuff white people like #119:  sea salt. thanks mom, for making me even more white than I already am.

here you go stalkers, the newest bumblesea interview on aspiring couture. if you don’t feel like reading the whole thing, here are some highlights for you.

“The design for my next jewelry tag has the words ‘You can’t take this where you’re going’ on the back.”

“My boyfriend constantly asks me what I’m writing down, I yell ‘IDEAS!’ and continue violently scribbling my chicken scratch down. I wake up with ink on my face and sheets from me writing on my arms in bed the night before. There are sixteen to do lists on my desk right now. I’m never bored, my brain works faster than my body can keep up with.”

“Only take business advice from people who are successful in your industry. Seek these people out and form meaningful, long term relationships with them, everything else should turn into white noise. On the other hand, try to keep your head out of your ass. Let me know how it works out for you. Seriously, email me.”

I’ve been pretty busy keeping up with bumblesea and working on bigger projects so this art print idea is reserved for me to work on in the wee hours of the morning when I find it impossible to fall asleep. I’m currently working on an illustration of the hatched necklace (the egg only- I’d go crazy trying to paint the chain), and it’s about half way done. the photoshop file size is already up to nearly 2 gigs. luckily I have a few extra hard drives laying around that can be dedicated to holding all the original files.

bumblesea indie jewelry silver hatched egg necklace

right now I’m focusing on launching the much anticipated (and more affordable!) acrylic line. (I know I’ve been promising the new line forever..) the jewelry studio will be able to cruise on autopilot once it’s launched. I’ll still be on twitter and of course I’ll still update the blog- but it’ll give me more time to spend with friends and family.

nets photograph by femme de manille via flickr

dragon fruit photograph by femme de manille via flickr

I obsessed over dragon fruit (enough to name a bumblesea necklace after them) after seeing some photos of them on flickr. I got my hopes up about how they’d taste, spent five bucks on a single fruit, and it ended up reminding me of a mediocre kiwi. maybe it wasn’t ripe. what can you do?

at least they’re pretty.

free photoshop layer textures by les brumes via flickr

free photoshop photography filter textures by les brumes via flickr

- les brumes offers hundreds of amazing textures for photoshop geeks like myself to use for free. I can’t keep this find to myself, it’d be cruel. click on the images to check out more of her free goodies.

- house of gems is sponsoring a featured jewelry artist contest. enter to win and you could receive up to $500 to spend however you wish at their store. the contest deadline is today: august 15th and I just found out a few hours ago! fate? hurry up and enter here.

- I haven’t been posting/promoting the past few days because I’ve been spending all my time playing with PHP in order to have dynamic content on bumblesea. originally I installed joomla and skinned it to look exactly like my current site. I think I was searching for some PHP plugins when I came across indexhibit and fell in love with it. I’m scrapping the entire joomla project, it’s bloated and unnecessary for what I need. I’d prefer to support other small companies with similar taste in design if possible. is anyone still reading this? hi, mom!

bumblesea indie jewelry silver tree branch necklace on polyvore

- silver tree branch necklace by bumblesea

- off white converse all star high top chuck taylors (took me a few months to find off white but it was worth it)

- white ripped skinny jeans via topshop

- white tiger striped cashmere sequin tank top by rebecca taylor

- off white blouse via eruca japan

- crystal wedding decor tree via ethereal decor

- white marc by marc jacobs lil’ riz leather hobo bag

polaroid design challenge - lightning heart

current blog obsessions/inspiration/you know the drill:

- polaroid design challenge for all you illustrators, doodlers, photoshoppers etc via lightning heart. take the original polaroid and do what you will with it, check out the blog post for some examples/ideas/inspiration. submit your entries by the end of august!

- stephanie teague’s clothing via mint

- blushless wedding line available via aspiring couture

- buzz asked me for some input about the pros/cons of selling on etsy, mini-interview is up on the blog

- there are obviously too many hours in the day so I’m fiddling around with tumblr