Here at Waxing Poetic’s HQ, we all design, plot, produce and service our line in various small, overcrowded rooms in our cottage-y offices that are adjacent to our flagship store. We are all so intently focused on what we do, that sometimes (read: always), it is good to orchestrate events that bring our sales, customer service and creative teams together. Like…
The First Annual Waxing Poetic Retailers & Reps Round Table.
We have been given a new decade. Another chance to frame the world as it is, acknowledging that is slinks very swiftly into was, and then.
Everything moves so quickly.
We usually try to start with a word. Sometimes several. This year, we kept an older one (wayfinding), considered one we love both as object and action (shrine), and tried to find something, if nothing else, that could hold that intimate, shareable, but almost inarticulable place in a sentence (the way one might hold a scene, a memory, a moment).
We ended up hung up on a prefix: RE. From the Latin, meaning to go back, again; and again…
How this tiny pair of letters shifts the meaning of everything it touches – sometimes quietly, sometimes with bravado, but always with a kind of great care… it seems more than appropri- ate to make a shortlist of re-words, and follow suit by taking care to see the huge shifts made by the very small.
Restore. Held Close, too.
Return. A Second, A third, or Several times over
Replace. What might have once been lost gets found and found
Repair. Or made better. Letting the seams show.
Review. Seen differently this time, with different motives
Return. (again) : over, around, and back
Recall. To go back in memory , shift timeplaces
Relinquish. To let go, set free
Revive. Brought back to life, as if from sleep , the difference of only a few…
Reconsider.
And then a not so obvious one: Repository.
Yes. Repository… refers to an archive. A storehouse. A trove of information or treasures. Also, it can be a trusted person, a confidante, a keeper. In a way, a kind of shrine. A tangible place (or thing) to safe-keep the intangible. We store things inside of other things, but more implicitly, we are ourselves repositories—our own mutable archives; our commonplace books, our silva rerum, our narratives and our most cherished attempts.
We have so much to keep safe, and keep close, and consider….
Love,
WP
Each of our retailers possesses distinctive individual charm, spreading the personal touch of Waxing Poetic in their local communities every day. As a token of our gratitude to our retailers and because we think you’ll love them as much as we do, we’re delighted to introduce Island Girl!
Island Girl is a trendy women and children’s fashion boutique with two locations on the beautiful Hilton Head Island in sunny South Carolina. We are excited to have the chance to sit back, relax and get to them.
Welcome! What is your favorite Waxing Poetic collection? Our favorite collections are Your Heart is Your Map Pendants, Dog Tag Pendants and the Signature Seal Charm. We love these larger pendants on the Medium Rolo Chains with a variety of insignia charms.
What are your favorite pieces? Our favorite pieces would have to be the Fleur de Lis Dog Tag Pendant, the Your Heart is Your Map Live True Pendant, and the Dragonfly Camp Charm. These pendants, in conjunction with the on the Square Insignia Charm and Medium Rolo Chain, create an absolutely fabulous look!
What are your customer’s favorite pieces? Island Girl customers love the Square Insignia Charms, petite Wing and a Prayer Croix charm, Dog Tag Pendants, and the Signature Seal Charm. The Medium Rolo and the Twisted Link Silver Chain provide a great medium to display these collections.
What do you like about Waxing Poetic? Waxing Poetic allows each person to create their own story through charms and pendants. Every necklace reflects the differences of each individual. The most popular designs include a collections of insignias representing those precious to the individual.
Do you have any fun stories or interesting tidbits that you would like to share? We have had so many customers create such wonderful memories with Waxing Poetic it is difficult to choose just one story. A gentleman who wanted to ask his girlfriend to marry him chose the blank envelope necklace. He had the letter engraved with “Will you marry me?” Needless to say, she said Yes! Waxing poetic necklaces are a beautiful way to show the joy and pride of motherhood and family. We had two sisters each buy a necklace for the other with their initials and the initials of their children and parents as a celebration of love for each other and their family. A single father who wanted to get something special for his daughter’s birthday created a necklace with her initials. He now chooses a charm for each holiday as a way for them to grow together.
Thank you so much for joining us today!
Be sure to check out Island Girl online (www.islandgirlhhi.com) or at either of their store locations; 1 North Forest Beach Unit K-1, Hilton Head Island, SC 29928 and 232 South Sea Pines Drive, Hilton Head Island, SC 29928.
Well hello darlings, it’s been a little while.
Did you watch the Oscars a couple weeks ago? Did you swoon over some dresses and wince over others? It is, you know, tantamount to the Super Bowl for some of us, particularly those of us fond of sequins/sparkles, overwrought acceptance speeches, far reaching tributes, photo montages, red carpet mayhem, [sometimes] painfully bad musical numbers and general Hollywood hijinks.
No longer a resident of Los Angeles, I think my non-proximity to the Industry writ large has actually caused me to be nostalgic for the whole spectacle, and thus, oh yes, I very surely watched the Awards, the pre-shows, and the post-shows, and read blog after blog after blog. Excessive? Maybe a little. But it only happens once and year, and besides, I have another good reason.
I’ve been sick. And thus, rather annoyed. A deathcold, really. Not fun, but not life-threatening – but just enough so that standing is a precarious thing, and walking about is unpleasant. I don’t like being sick and I like even less being sick just when the weather is finally getting nice, but sometimes it happens – particularly after flying, so I’ve taken to drinking copious amounts of water, eating chicken soup, taking lots of vitamins, taking luxuriant naps and availing myself of the streaming feature on my Netflix account.
Which means, at least for me,…costume dramas, police/legal procedurals en masse (shameful? It depends on your definition), swoony embarrassing romantic comedies, feel-good girl movies (saw WHIP IT the other day, which was actually adorable and I wholly recommend seeing it), and last but certainly not least, a healthy dose of 1940s cinema, often but not always Noir.
Film Noir is something I’ve had a developing fascination, aided and abetted by a musicology seminar in college about the scores of Otto Preminger/Jacques Torneur/etc. films – and also by talking over wine and chocolate with Waxing Poetic’s very own Brianna Colburn, whose self-described ‘nerdy, perverse love’ of the genre was intriguing because in summary, black and white films about mob bosses, frame jobs, and low-life crime aren’t necessarily things I’d immediately associate with her. And then she said it was largely because of the clothes.
So… I watched LAURA, which, if you haven’t seen it (I hadn’t), is great. This is Netflix’ summary, which roped me in because if nothing else, watching pretty things (yay cinematorgraphy!) is a good distraction at any point:
Laura Hunt (Gene Tierney) has been murdered, and as New York City Det. Mark McPherson (Dana Andrews) investigates, he finds that everyone seems to be in love with her — and he, too, gradually falls under her spell. But things aren’t always what they seem. Otto Preminger’s classic mystery received four Academy Award nominations, including a nod for Best Director, and won the Oscar for Best Cinematography.
While warmer weather traditionally calls for “soft” (colors, fabrics, textures, etc.), this Spring seems to be a little bolder, a little more raw, and a lot more adventurous. Which we love. And have some suggestions for celebrating this…and thus enacting some rocker/deconstructed prettiness into your overall look.
Mixed metals are huge. Interweaving materials, unexpected textures, and sweet-but-saucy details are huge. Innovation, adventure, and gorgeousness are also huge (both in Spring 2011 and in the Waxing Poetic creative nexus at large), and so we say, to you, what better place to jump on board than with something small but potent? To that end –may we suggest the following – the Fleur De Lis Wing & A Prayer Ring and the XOX Camp Bracelet.
One of the most heart flipping things, ever, is delving into the process of creating my own charm combination… something extra special to carry with me, close to my heart, as I move through my days. A single charm dangling from a simple chain is lovely. But a cluster of stunning treasures…that’s even better.
Hello Loves. It has been a couple days. Sorry about that.
Normally, in these little missives, I’d like to interview/explore/investigate actual people or places that you might be able to interact with as well – but for today, I urge you all, especially if you need a break from psycho-sexual thrillers (Black Swan, which, I loved, but sometimes you don’t need implosion of the human soul, you know?) or on the other extreme, Nicholas Sparks’ weepers (which, again, COMPLETELY HAVE THEIR PLACE, and I am CERTAINLY NOT denying that I keep a DVD of “The Notebook,” as well as a packet of Theraflu in my nightstand drawer, lest I happen to be alone in the house…or just shameless…) or bro-tastic comedies (sure. The Hangover. Yes. Funny. Silly men, scary tiger, but really?) but instead need a …almost ‘grown up,’ all-purpose film (think movie-as-cashmere-blanket – you don’t necessarily NEED it but once you have it in your presence, at least for a little bit of time you’re just…grateful, pleased, and content). In any case, don’t let the mildly oblique title dissuade you – The King’s Speech is…wonderful.
And not just because Colin Firth (who, and I honestly ask of those, among you recall his early performance in the 1987 Hallmark Hall of Fame presentation of “The Secret Garden”? Because: oh yes, I did. And I swooned. And I still do) is in it. Or Geoffrey Rush (a thousand baskets of peonies for you, dear Australian thespian), or even heroine of every Merchant Ivory movie I may or may not have watched from adolescence onward, Helena Bonham Carter, or because (swoon, part deux) Guy Pierce is in it… no.
It’s 2011. February, actually. Less than a month til Spring, at that. You seem to have found your way to the right place, though, if you’ve found me here.
This is Dannie, by the way (waves).
I’ll be reappearing every now and then on Proof going forward—it seems we ought to have a “consistent voice,” and I, or rather the ladies here…think I’ll do. We’ll have a riotous time, I promise.
To wit: Interviews with our squad, dispatches from our varied, wandering stars (abroad, stateside, and in between…), profiles of fans, faves, things which we love (editorial, tastiness, film, adventures, crafty projects + otherwise) and…oof. Lots more. Favorite novenas, perhaps. Hints of elsewhere, but here too. Deliciousness, there will be much of that. Read the rest of this entry »
For my necklace, I have chosen to combine simple pieces that when added together provide subtle hints into my personality. I love the 18” Medium Rolo Chain, because it has a classic look that matches with absolutely everything! The three charms that I often pair with the chain are the Swallow Silhouette Portrait Charm, the Rose Gold Free Form Charm, and a Baby Insignia Charm in the letter “D.”
