Holiday Gift Guide Inspiration
The Holidays are, well- they’re HERE!! But if you are still stumped on what to get for a loved one, we have a few ideas!
The Adventurer;for your world traveling, adventure seeking recipient we love the idea of gifting them with a protective talisman, something to guard them on their journey and remind them of home. For an adventurer, we love; the Good Book Page charms, Axiom band bracelets andWing and a Prayer charms.
The Giver; you know the givers. Always looking out for everyone else, putting the rest of the world before themselves. It’s hard to give to a giver, but if the charm fits- a giver will love it! For a Giver, we love; Renewable Love pendant, Your Heart is Your Map Medallion and the Eternal Anthem collection.
The Romantic; a romantic could be a lover (wife, girlfriend, fiancé) or it could be someone else you are close too who looks at the world through rose colored glasses and is just all about love! For the Romantics, we love; Circle of Love Pendant, Waxy Wonder Double Heart charm, Evertied Charm and the Love Tag charm.
The Devout; Faith is one thing that people keep as close as their family. It’s a foundation that so many relationships are built upon. Whether it be a reminder to have faith or a proclamation that faith and miracles do exist. For the Devout, we love; The Everlasting Collection, Transformative Faith/Love pendant, Freedom Cross collection and the Good Book Page charms.
The Warrior; Some say survivor, we say Warrior. Because sometimes, just saying you survived, doesn’t do it justice. There was a battle. And it was WON. That fight should be celebrated and all Warriors need armor. For the Warrior, we love; BEE Brave pendant and charm, Heroic Insignia, Much Love pendant or charm, Biographies “story of survival” charm, Providence Medallions and Vital Spark Charms.
Angels and Transcendence are the Theme of the Day
This is a magical poem by D.H. Lawrence… we hope you enjoy, and admit your own angels.
Song of a Man Who Has Come Through
Not I, not I, but the wind that blows through me!A fine wind is blowing the new direction of Time.If only I let it bear me, carry me, if only it carry me!If only I am sensitive, subtle, oh, delicate, a winged gift!If only, most lovely of all, I yield myself and am borrowedBy the fine, fine wind that takes its course through the chaos of the worldLike a fine, an exquisite chisel, a wedge-blade inserted;If only I am keen and hard like the sheer tip of a wedgeDriven by invisible blows,The rock will split, we shall come at the wonder, we shall find the Hesperides.Oh, for the wonder that bubbles into my soul,I would be a good fountain, a good well-head,Would blur no whisper, spoil no expression.What is the knocking?What is the knocking at the door in the night?It is somebody wants to do us harm.No, no, it is the three strange angels.Admit them, admit themFashion and Trend Advice from Lead Designer Stephanie - #3
Group Same Styles
Anytime a lot of the same something is gathered together it gives a high impact statement around a theme. Imagine an entire wall filled with framed family photographs. Seeing everything together creates a themed look, tells a history at a close-up aspect, and creates visual patterns standing aback. Collections of the same style can be a theme, like all insignias, or all crosses, or everything the same metal, etc. Or, they might be all the same style by design like a collection of matching pieces from earrings to necklaces, bracelets and rings. Consider a collection of all the same insignia versus a collection of all different insignias.
Small Business Saturday has our hearts!
Waxing Poetic recognizes that good relationships are far more precious than any objects (even the pretty and delightful ones), and deserve ongoing care and recognition.
To our wonderful retailers: thank you so much for keeping our product in mind when selecting treasures for your store. And thank you so much for making each customer relationship a special one.
You are invaluable, and we salute you (and shop with you) not only on this upcoming Small Business Saturday, but beyond!
A note from the heart, from Patti our founder.
I love my job. Over the past years, as I’ve had the opportunity to interact with our many customers, retailers, and employees, I’ve come to realize that Waxing Poetic is not merely a company, but, perhaps, a movement; one that embraces every moment of every day. One that asks us to be thankful for all that we have both individually, and with one another. As a business owner I know that customers are brought into a world in which we have created. They bring their life and poetry to us, and then a magical thing happens, a connection. Waxing Poetic provides a customer with a reflection of their life and a world that lives and breathes long after their purchase. Waxing Poetic, made that significant moment possible. We make and sell jewelry, but behind it, there has always been this intangible “thing.” Perhaps it’s this very connection. Our customers bring their stories, filled with love, recognition, and realizations, and we interpret that life into our art, into Waxing Poetic. This is the place of poetry, and it exists in every moment. Our life’s work tries to come closer to the most soulful expressions of who we are. Our work is our life, and our life is a Poetic one. It is in this authenticity that we find our family: a family of seekers, of people who realize they are on an incredible journey, and who want to celebrate it by living a movement that allows some part of each of our souls to soar. We are thankful that you share your own life’s paths (and poetry) with the larger narrative of Waxing Poetic every day. We need each other like we need air, and there is nothing more beautiful, or poetic.
Wishing you true connections and much abundance, Patti
Fashion and Trend Advice from Lead Designer Stephanie #2
Stack to Create Lengths
It is very impressionistic to create a bold look that is rich in textures and details. A way to do this is by stacking thin pieces like narrow rings and bangles, worn many at a time reaching past the wrists and filling fingers. Around the neck, stacking a range of lengths or doubling a long chain creates thinner layers that drape and feel elongating. To exaggerate the style, mix a very short length with a very long length. Stacks of carriers still give a layered and textured look regardless of how many charms are incorporated. When layering charms themselves, the same idea applies where pieces look best mixed in a range of shapes and sizes, triangulated with longer foundation pieces toward the center and smaller charms on the sides. Or, on the arms with heavier charms closer to the wrists and lighter charms higher up the arm when multiple bracelets are stacked.
To Autumn
This perfectly poetic ode by John Keats (and the last poem he wrote before he died, at the ripe young age of 23) is a meditation of the quiet activity of daily observation and appreciation.
Quite simply, it reminds us to always look forward, and never look back. Enjoy.
To Autumn
Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness,Close bosom-friend of the maturing sun;
Conspiring with him how to load and bless
With fruit the vines that round the thatch-eaves run;
To bend with apples the moss'd cottage-trees,
And fill all fruit with ripeness to the core;
To swell the gourd, and plump the hazel shells
With a sweet kernel; to set budding more,
And still more, later flowers for the bees,
Until they think warm days will never cease,
For Summer has o'er-brimm'd their clammy cells.
Who hath not seen thee oft amid thy store?
Sometimes whoever seeks abroad may find
Thee sitting careless on a granary floor,
Thy hair soft-lifted by the winnowing wind;
Or on a half-reap'd furrow sound asleep,
Drows'd with the fume of poppies, while thy hook
Spares the next swath and all its twinéd flowers:
And sometimes like a gleaner thou dost keep
Steady thy laden head across a brook;
Or by a cyder-press, with patient look,
Thou watchest the last oozings hours by hours.
Where are the songs of Spring?
Ay, where are they?
Think not of them, thou hast thy music too,—
While barréd clouds bloom the soft-dying day,
And touch the stubble-plains with rosy hue;
Then in a wailful choir the small gnats mourn
Among the river sallows, borne aloft
Or sinking as the light wind lives or dies;
And full-grown lambs loud bleat from hilly bourn;
Hedge-crickets sing; and now with treble soft
The red-breast whistles from a garden-croft;
And gathering swallows twitter in the skies.
Welcome to Nota Bene (both Latin and Italian for “note well,” which we do around here!). At Waxing Poetic, we make things, and get the chance to see them made real (and loved, and changed – by all of you). Here you will find tiny actions, tiny pieces, and tiny particulars of our process – the small (and not so small) things that matter much.
Enjoy!
Patti Pagliei, Founder
