If you like your jewelry served with a little side of history as I do, I recommend that you find your way over to the blog Gem Gossip and dig in! I've particularly enjoyed GG blogger, Danielle's recent posts Titanic Lost Jewelry: The Artifact Exhibition and The Antique Jewelry in the Movie: The Young Victoria which offer some fascinating facts about jewelry in a historical context.

I've had the pleasure of communicating with Danielle over the past couple of months and I have participated in a couple of her very popular Show Me Your Rings posts. When I received an email from Danielle a couple of weeks ago to discuss the possibility of doing a Designer Spotlight on Kristin Pasternak Fine Jewelry, I was extremely flattered to be considered especially given the talented roster of past designers (think Nicole Landaw, Karen Karch and C Greene) that have been featured in Gem Gossip's Designer Spotlight.

I learned last Thursday that Danielle had posted the blog and I couldn't be more pleased with the outcome! Below is Gem Gossip's DESIGNER SPOTLIGHT on Kristin Pasternak Fine Jewelry:

To read the entire post, click here. And don't forget to add Gem Gossip to your RSS feed!

Merci beaucoup, Danielle!

xxKP

If a twelve page spread in March Vogue and a post from street-style demigod Garance Doré didn't convince you to fall in line with the Khaki cult for the Spring/Summer season, perhaps the NY Times T Magazine blog titled "The Khaki Brigade" will persuade you to enlist.

I especially love the pairing of black and khaki in the first image. Styling black with khaki is a great weather-appropriate way to begin transitioning the neutral hue into the Spring season now.

So while you're waiting for the warm weather to arrive in NYC, why not spend a little time daydreaming about your Spring wardrobe?! To view the blog and check out the rest of the images, click here.

xxKP

Bonjour, mes amis!

While checking my KP Fine Jewelry inbox late last night, I came across an email from Caroline, the blogger extraordinaire and talented artist behind the super cute and whimsical site It Looks Good To Me. Consequently, I was beyond thrilled to read that Caroline had posted a little write up on the debut collection of yours truly featuring a lovely watercolor of our Diamond Granulation Stacking Ring!

The Diamond Stacking Ring is one of our favorite pieces and it looks great worn as a set of three or by itself - diamonds are just so versatile!

If you haven't had the opportunity to see our newly launched Online Shop, we invite you to do so. Also, don't forget to take advantage of an exclusive 20% discount off all merchandise in celebration of the Grand Opening of our Online Shop (and of course the upcoming Valentine's Day holiday!) now through February 14th, 2010. To receive the discount, simply enter the discount code VALDAY2010 in the notes section during checkout. The discount will be taken manually and will appear on your emailed receipt.

Don't you just love getting good news in your inbox?!

xxKP

Why hello there, February!

What a whirlwind that past couple of months have been beginning with the launch of the Kristin Pasternak Fine Jewelry collection and website in December. Since then it's been a (happily) hectic schedule of jewelry design and production, photo shoots, some pretty exciting meetings (more to come on that soon!) and most recently, the addition of the Online Shop to the site last week!

Recently, while perusing one of my favorite blogs Oh Joy! I was instantly drawn to a post about the colorful and whimsical watercolor illustrations of Brooklynite Caroline of the website and blog It Looks Good to Me. A Textitle Designer by profession, Caroline, who lives in Cobble Hill finds inspiration from "the amazing visual material" she encounters in NYC on a daily basis. Her illustrations are so charming and I've posted a sampling of them below. You can purchase one (or more!) of these beauties for just $35 via her online Print Shop.

xxKP

Happy New Year! I hope that you're as excited for what 2010 will bring as I am!

(illustration via Garance Doré)

This lovely illustration was done by über-talented French blogger, street style photographer and illustrator, Garance Doré. If you are not yet familiar with Garance, her blog, which has been translated to English for a little over a year now, has become a mainstay in my google reader and her images and illustrations are both thought-provoking and beautiful. This past September, I had the good fortune to ever-so-briefly meet Garance while attending her equally talented blogger boyfriend, Scott Schuman's, book signing at Barney's for his newly released work The Sartorialist. (As a side note, the book is a compilation of Scott's favorite photos and subjects and is nothing short of inspirational for the fashion inclined!)

Garance Doré & Scott Schuman at The Sartorialist book signing at Barney's on September 14, 2009

(image via www.thesartorialist.blogspot.com)

But I digress, Garance was just as lovely and congenial in person as I had imagined she would be and her blog has become a daily source of style inspiration for readers around the world. If you haven't already, why not add Garance Doré's blog to your RSS feed for 2010 and start your year off with a daily dose of effortless chic?!

xxKP