A little piece of Rosanne Karmes good karma
Yesterday I found my way over to Bergdorf Goodman for the Sydney Evan custom charm and bead event, and had the pleasure of meeting designer Rosanne Karmes, the woman behind the wildly popular fine jewelry line.
I first discovered Rosanne’s gorgeous, delicate and whimsical designs last year at this time, while searching for jewelry for my wedding day. I was immediately drawn to Sydney Evan, as all the pieces spoke to me in an elegant, timeless, and understated way. I settled on her evil eye bracelet and I’ve never taken it off.
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Photo by Fiona Conrad
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Rosanne designs pieces that you want to live in; when you look down on your wrist or graze your fingertips against the encouraging words on your necklace it brings you positivity, protection, and for the superstitious, luck. Meeting Rosanne only gave me more reason to want to wear her lucky charms. She is the physical embodiment of her designs: a positive presence, kind, and genuinely interested in the women who wear her jewelry. She's a role model as well, never having financial help to start and grow her business, she did it all on her own.
Rosanne makes a conscious effort to price her trend setting designs more reasonably than her fellow competitors, not because the pieces are worth any less, but because she wants the jewelry to be attainable to the women she designs for so that her valued customers can purchase the jewelry for themselves.
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| One of my favorite charms from the new collection :-) |
The
most surprising lesson that we learned during our visit to the Serengeti
was that 99% of the time the animals are at peace and in perfect harmony
with each other. Hyenas sharing the shade with warthogs (who are
usually their prey), lions napping in close proximity to zebra, impala,
topi, giraffes and jackals. Warthogs prancing dangerously close to a
female cheetah. Everyone is simply co existing and enjoying the beautiful Serengeti day...until someone gets hungry. Usually it takes a lion or a cheetah getting hungry enough to hunt, a kill that feeds an entire
ecosystem. Right behind our tent a lion pride took down a zebra during
the night and by the morning all the substantial meat was gone and the
hyenas were licking the bones and fighting over the scraps with a
jackal. Then we noticed the vultures beginning to circle over head, just
waiting for the hyena and jackal to finish their meal so that they may
have their turn. Seeing this in person was shocking and thought
provoking, survival of the fittest in the most extreme and natural form.
So what can we learn from this? How is this relevant in the modernized culture we live in? I turn to this article from Forbes, Management Advice From Charles Darwin. (Photos taken in Tanzania by S+P) 
