In case you missed it, here’s what’s been on the blog recently.
- Tuesday, December 4: The sale I was talking about in this post has come and gone, but I’m very determined to move the last of my silver pieces in the next few weeks, so keep an eye out for sale announcements and gifts with purchase!
- Wednesday, December 5: My one-of-a-kind Nefertiti ring and the Nefertiti biography that helped inspire it were the topics of this week’s video.
- Friday, December 7: Signet rings for the millennial mama? I like being on that gift list. Thanks, Barbara Palumbo!
- Tuesday, December 11: This one is a must-read, if I do say so myself: It’s the conclusion of my telling of my Eminem-related business debacle. I felt kind of proud after writing that just now; I bet not many people can say they had an Eminem-related business debacle. Every cloud has a silver lining.
- Wednesday, December 12: With Shady business decisions on my mind, it seemed like a good time to share some advice on challenges faced by jewelry entrepreneurs and other small-biz owners.
- Thursday, December 13: If your true love didn’t get you those swans a-swimming from the song, swan jewelry actually requires much less upkeep. The veterinary bills might be steep for seven actual swans.
- Tuesday, December 18: Four years to the day after Henry the dog departed for the big dog bed in the sky, we unexpectedly lost my beloved Purrkoy the kitten to a stroke.
- Wednesday, December 19: A lot of people ask me how Purrkoy got his name. This is a video I did earlier in the year.
- Thursday, December 20: Nighttime was Purrkoy’s time to purrform.
Because I was distracted with personal things this week, I neglected to write a post I really wanted to do, about the unexpected death of hairstylist Oribe Canales at age 62. (According to the New York Times, the cause was liver and kidney failure following cancer treatment last month, but no one seemed to know he was facing health challenges.) Oribe was a legend in the fashion and beauty industries, and of course I knew all about him because he worked with THE supermodels.
In addition to being famous, Oribe was adored — a bigger achievement in any professional circle. He supported and encouraged so many people inside and outside his business. A friend of mine who worked with him for 12 years called those “the very best” years of her life. Colorist Rita Hazan, who went on to own her own salon, met Oribe when she was only 17.
When actress Jennifer Lopez became the A-list star J. Lo, Oribe played an integral role in her image.
There are more tributes in this Allure story, and if you look up the #RIPOribe hashtag and its variations on Instagram, you’ll see how much people loved him. I was tearing up even though I never met him myself.
Another awful loss this week does affect me more personally. I’m so stunned by the death of Atlanta DJ Speakerfoxxx that I can’t process the information. Speakerfoxxx was tight with my friend Gangsta Boo, who introduced us. I didn’t spend a lot of time with Speaker but she was such a key person in Boo’s life I felt like I knew her. When I did meet her, it was memorable. She was in New York City to DJ at Fashion Week events, and we had trouble getting our schedules to align. The night she was free happened to be Valentine’s Day. So I simply told MrB that our romantic Valentine’s Day dinner plans had expanded to include two more people — Speaker and her friend Newport. (You’ve got to give MrB credit for being a chillaxed guy.) We had a great time, the four of us, on our date.
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With this news weighing on me, I’m glad I had already planned a very low-key celebration of my birthday, which is today. After last year’s big celebrations both in New York and Iceland — and the post-election exhaustion I’ve been feeling since last month — I was pretty relaxed about this year. Dinner with the family is planned. Speaking of family, I will end this post on a lighter note with the help of my gorgeous sister, Terri Berry. I got a notification from her that she had shared “a jewelry video for your birthday.” I thought, “Geez, that seems a little labor-intensive, to create some kind of birthday message with my jewelry.” It turned out to be this.
Never mind!