Imagine how chuffed I was to see this article about Suzanne by Charmaine Gahan!
A close friend since kindergarten, Charmaine has been a huge support to Suzanne and the birthstone-jewelry company that hosts this blog, Luna & Stella.
In a delightful report, Charmaine describes how her whole family joined Suzanne’s family in New York City over school vacation to lend a hand at the Playtime trade show, a big deal for promoting new products to retail shops around the world.
Among the highlights of Suzanne’s growing collections are sweet Mama + Me bracelets, just in time for Mothers Day (May 8), and some stunning vintage lockets.
Notes the website, “All of the lockets in the Luna & Stella Vintage Collection were made in Providence, East Providence or Attleboro between 1880 and 1940.”
Why vintage mixed with contemporary? That’s kind of an interesting story, too, being the result of a hunt for beautiful hinges to use in new lockets. After the long search, Suzanne concluded that they just don’t make smooth and subtle hinges like they used to.
But sometimes an apparent dead end can lead to even better ideas, and Luna & Stella’s cool mixing of old and new seems to be an idea that is catching on.
At the Concord Journal (here), you can read more about the two friends and their families working the trade show in New York during the coldest week of the year.
Photo: Charmaine’s girls join Suzanne to look over the Mama + Me collection from Luna & Stella.
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What a nice article! Your daughter is really poised, it seems, to take the next step with her business. I especially like the angle of incorporating the vintage pieces with new elements–it adds such layers of meaning to the whole undertaking!
I agree. From the beginning she sought a way to make products meaningful to the individual, and the lockets continue that effort in an unexpected way.