JeannieRichard

Cooooeeee everyone 

I hope we are all in good spirits for the weekend is near and a new month of June begins tomorrow! But for now, it is the last day of May and the last day for two very cool events:

1. The Spring Giveaway from The Sensible Style – Amanda Irel is hosting a giveaway of goodies which features our ring (size 8). Amanda is giving away a box of goodies each season! She won’t be telling exactly what is inside each box, but you can expect an assortment of make-up, accessories, beauty products, stationery, and maybe even a clothing item! So click on down to Amanda’s blog to enter now 

2. The Post-Fab Sale from JeannieRichard – Today is the last day to enjoy 25% off everything you see on our shop over at Etsy. Simply codePOSTFAB25 at checkout to get your summer style accessories at JeannieRichard online shop 

Spring, photo art print by Yuliya Art of Golden Section, $30

We love love love eggs.
Scrambled, hard boiled, 3/4 boiled, omelettes, steamed, sunny side up, eggs benedict, custard, et al. We could eat them every day, since we’ve have learnt it was a myth about eggs being high in cholesterol, and especially since we eat only once a day, a couple of eggs a day wouldn’t matter!

But today, we have a different league of eggs.
They are beautiful, sparkling and they make wonderful heirlooms. They are the lovely precious eggs by Peter Carl Fabergé of Saint Petersburg, who was born today of 1846.
He would be 166 today 

The intricate details, craftsmanship and regal design is something that have me literally, sitting close up to my display and just be dazzled, and trying to memorize every single thing about it.

Which egg do you fancy most?

Oeuf Ballets Russes Carnival

Oeuf Cadeau

Oeuf Matelassé Coloré Or Rose

Oeuf Guilloché Lys Or Rose

Zénaïde Sapphire Egg

Oeuf Spirale Or Blanc

The Egg Ribbon

Visit their website for more eggs and non-egg jewelry 

❤ ❤ ❤ XO JR

pickieco:

When I don’t have time to get a manicure at the salon, I do my own manicure at home.  It’s a struggle to put nail polish on yourself, especially with your non-dominant hand.  The difficulty lies in maneuvering, tipping, and dipping the nail polish and brush to get more polish between painting nails.  You have to be very careful not to bump your freshly painted nails against the bottle or spill the bottle by accident.  I’ve always wanted this process to be easier, and this Amazon find helps. The ‘Grip and Tip Holder’ holds your polish I can leave the bottle on the table in a slanted position and keep my hand free.  Try it out!

Amazon- Grip and Tip Holder: White: $3.80 / Pink: $7.98

pickieco:

Say goodbye to chipped nail polish and broken nails when attempting to add keys to keyring! No more complaining about short nails and not being about to open a keyring!  This newly invented key ring has a bump, which when pressed opens the key ring. Why didn’t anyone come out with this sooner!? Check out the soon to be released FreeKey. I know I’ll be ordering it, will you?

FreeKey $TBA

pickieco:

Pinterest Friday! Each Friday we are going to post the most popular items from the week! This week’s most repinned item is pet friendly!  For all you dog owners, I have a treat for you.  The Hammacher Foldaway Dog House is not only a wonderful present for your dog, but it is a gift to yourself.  Dog toys and products can take up space, but now you can store all those items in a neat storage space under the roof of this house.  And there’s more…

This dog house can fold into a thin, 4 inch wide, square for convenient storage.  It even includes a bag for travel purposes.  What an added bonus!  There’s no way you or your pet won’t love this!  Check it out and spoil your four-legged friend! 

Don’t forget to follow us on Pinterest- Click here to follow Pickie!

Hammacher: The Foldaway Dog House- $139.95

pickieco:

Now that the flowers are in full bloom, stocking your home with beautiful arrangements makes your home come alive. A colorful vase can make all the difference in brightening a room. These are my three personal picks of West Elm’s selection of great vases. The turquoise and navy blue vases are on trend this season. The glass vases are simply beautiful, and will go well with any floral arrangement.  

Westelm- Elephant Ceramics

Westelm- Seaside Vases

Westelm- Mercury Glass Cityscape Vases

pickieco:

I don’t know about you, but after sitting at a desk for at least nine hours a day, my back screams out in pain.  I constantly find myself slouching and having to sit up straight at my desk.  When I get home and take a leap towards my bed, I lay flat on my back and attempt to straighten out my alignment.  Yoga helps, but I don’t always have time to get my poses in.  I resort to grabbing my hands behind my back and pushing my chest forward.  Now I can rely on Hammacher Schlemmer’s Back Stretching Pain Reliever.  It stretches and supports the spine’s natural curvature to help relieve back pain!  Check it out!

Hammacher Schlemmer- The Back Stretching Pain Reliever: $39.95

After a week away from blogging, I feel like I lost a bit of my world ~ am so happy to reconnect with you and to receive pleasant surprises as well!

Surprise #1: Patricia of Design Notes pinned our jewelry on her pinterest board!
Surprise #2: Cath of LizzieRoseJewellery awarded us the Kreativ Blogger Award((((Thank YOU Cath))))
Surprise #3:  Hazel of MajorMakeupMadness123 actually did a tutorial for eyebrowsupon my request! <3
Surprise #4: And to know that we are being missed! Missed you all too <3 <3

And on the topic of missing, thanks to Janine of Destination Umbria, I realized today that all my WordPress subscriptions had been reset to receive ‘no updates’ from you all *GASP*. So please do forgive us if we seem like a snob all this while – we really aren’t and will definitely make our presence known in all your blogs 

So what have we done the past 1 week?
Those 7 days just seem to fly by even more so quickly!
Wish we had a time-stopping machine, hehe 

- Designing new jewelry and beading away
- Working on tight deadline publishing projects
- Had our haircuts
- Observing the rental property market
- DIY manicure on myself for photo shoot this weekend
- I bought 2 colors of nail polish, matte baby pink and metallic eggplant for the sole purpose of photo shoot, so only my left hand will be painted, haha!

Now on to the award, which we humbly receive fromCath of LizzieRoseJewellery. Thank you once again! Do drop by her place ~ she’s got really lovely cat posts because not only does she do lovely jewelry, but she’s also a cat-sitter! So you will be delighted by her cat chronicles 

 AND don’t forget to visit her shop over at Etsy too!

As part of the rules upon receiving/participating the award, we need to divulge 7 things about ourselves, so here goes:
1. Before Richard and I met when we were in our teens (15, 16 respectively), Richard wanted to be a priest and I wanted to be a nun – and we’ve been together ever since.
2. It was love at first sight case for us – I was Richard’s fourth and last, and Richard was my first and last.
3. Richard first took private classical guitar lessons at 16 but was encouraged to sit for Grade 5 instead of 1, subsequently recommended into the only fine arts and music college back in 1995 to major in classical guitar and composition as college education for two years, and was a mastering/recording audio engineer in 1997. Art was second-nature to me since a toddler, never had the opportunity to undergo formal training and headed the web design department in an IT company back in 1999.
4. Before designing jewelry, I have never worn anything bling bling other than my now 20 year old courtship band and 13 year old wedding band; same for Richard plus a Tiffany & Co. silver pinkie ring bought for his 22 birthday, and his 8 earholes and nose ring, which the latter “embellishments” has been left untouched since he completed his army service. Now, I wear our own designs and Richard still only wears his love bands and pinkie.
5. Richard started singing before learning how to talk, and I never listened to pop music but classical, jazz, and country until I was 11. Thus, Richard introduced rock, heavy metal and pop music to me and I introduced classical and jazz music to him. Together we combine, and now we have a library of thousands of CDs from classical, jazz, experimental, religious, rock, heavy metal, pop, ballad, country, folk, etc etc etc ~ music is life!
6. Richard cannot drink more than 10ml of alcoholic at a time, more than that, he’ll start palpitating; I’ve started with champagne at age 6 and vodka on the rocks at 13 but now occasionally drink for the sake of Richard 

7. It is our dream to travel the world far and wide and hope to make America our home by 2018!

Cath also posed some questions, to which we have to answer one:
1.  Which place would you most like to visit, and why?
2.  In my next incarnation, I would like to be…?
3.  Which person from history would you most like to meet and why?
4.  What has been the most exciting experience you have ever had?
5.  Have you a life lesson that you would like to share?
6.  The best meal I ever had was…?
7.  What changes would you most want to implement if you were a leading politician?
8.  The best holiday I ever had was…?
9.  The quality I most admire in a friend is…?
10.  If you could live anywhere in the world, where would it be?
11.  Do you have a favourite walk, and if so where?

There are a couple of questions we love to tackle but we’ll go for question number 5 - Have you a life lesson that you would like to share?
Although we are only in our mid-30s, but our past 12-year cycle had life thrown upon us plenty of heavy punches. We had no support from friends or family members and being truly on our own, the only one entity we relied on was and will always be God almighty. Although the world may seem like they are against you, we say keep cleaving unto God and put your trust in your faith in Him. Do not be swayed by temptations, keep to doing what is right. It may seem hard every single day, even when you are left with a single penny, but know that you are seeding something promising for the future that will affect everyone else. It may seem your conscience moves go unrewarded at the point in time, but He is watching and nothing goes unaccounted for, nothing goes to waste. As the sages say, “there is divine reward and punishment”, and we are grateful for all those “heavy punches” given because life truly starts when you are 40. Thus, we are grateful to be given the opportunity to do it right this time round and never to return to folly.

There! Done about us! Hope it was interesting bits for you 

Now for THE best part of the game, to share the award!
We are nominating you all because your posts have brought much entertainment, insights, inspiration, and cheer to everyday living. There are so many more wonderful people out there but for now, let’s keep it to 10 (+1) 

It does not matter if you guys reciprocate, you all deserve it!

And the nominees are, in no particular order… 
• Patricia of Design Notes
• Fashion Style & Guru
• Edyta of Pret-A-Reporter
• Marina Kanavaki
• Esther of Wholly Kao
• Mari of I love green inspiration
• Janine of Destination Umbria
• Monica of Kukkuk
• Fi of Reproduce My Failures
• Kellie of Le Zoe Musings
• Sadie & Dasie 

Enjoy visiting their website if you have not already!
XO JR