Feb 10 2010

Jewelry: Attack of the Jewelry Commercials

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Lately as I’ve been cruising through the Twitterverse, I’ve encountered a LOT of negative commentary about jewelry commercials. Yeah, you know those commercials from the big chain jewelry stores or DeBeers diamonds (the diamonds are forever folk) that always increase around Christmas time and reach a fever pitch right before Valentine’s Day. Comments usually range from mild amusement:

Me and my dad are cracking up at these corny jewelry commercials, good times (via @aprainey)

Have you ever noticed how completely lame all the jewelry commercials are? Does anyone actually use those lines? (via @KelleySeitter)

I will be very happy when Valentine’s Day passes and the commercials for tacky jewelry stop. Diamonds deserve better. (via @CapitolClio)

…to gagging and nausea…

Jewelry commercials make me violently ill… Is Valentines day over yet? (via @meghanlambert)

Confession #2: Whenever cheesy Valentine’s jewelry commercials come on, I make loud obnoxious vomiting noises. (@LeeAnnMarcel)

Jewelry commercials make me gag (via @mynameisdawn)

Why do jewelry store commercials always make me want to barf? (via @angrae17)

…to downright hatred and violence.

jewelry commercials this time of year at tantamount to waterboarding. #hewenttojared (@TheEngagementP)

Aside from my regular hatred for Valentines Day (which is HUGE), I hate it even more because of all the stupid gushy jewelry commercials. (@bractune)

All these valentines jewelry commercials make me wanna choke a b****. (@ThisIsAlanya)

Commercials for Kay Jewelers and Jared’s appear to be a favorite target….

does jewelry equal love? yes if you’re kay jewelers (via @ShantaFabulous)

The materialism of jewelry store commercials disgusts me. Every kiss begins with jewelry? Makes me grind my teeth. (via @joshgister)

kay jewelry commercials make me want to vomit. (via @whitneyw3)

Oh my gosh, these jewelry commercials are so cheesy, but this Kay Jewelers leg cramp proposal commercial had me dying laughing! (via @hlsteed)

The Kay Jewelry commercials make me want to vomit. (via @livelaughlove32)

Kay and her Jewelry store deserve to have baseball bats taken to the head for making us endure those heinous commercials! (via @libbycrews)

good lord all these jewelry commercials are SO DUMB! “Don’t be scared, I’m right here and always will be.” *GAG* (via @kerrinsuzanne)

The previous quote was talking about this commercial in particular:




So what is it about these commercials that makes people react so negatively? Seriously, I’ve seen very few comments how much folks enjoy the commercials. If they’re out there, then I haven’t run across them. People don’t wait for these like they do for Super Bowl commercials. Is it because there’s so many of them that people just get tired of them? Are the complainers mostly single folks that hate Valentine’s Day? Do they just seem cheesy and unrealistic? Or are people upset because they reduce the holidays and love to a retail event? Or maybe everyone just so cynical that they can appreciate old fashioned romance.

For my part, I mostly ignore the commercials. Although I make jewelry I’m more likely to get excited over a brand new MacBook Pro than a honking big diamond ring. But when one does get my attention, I’m more amused because I can’t envision anybody I know actually giving jewelry in any scenario like those portrayed. Now, I’ve witnessed some thoughtful and memorable gift giving involving jewelry in real life (my sister in law’s recent engagement springs to mind), but never the picture perfect scenes common in most commercials. But aren’t most commercials shot in that picture perfect world? Maybe jewelry commercials would be more interested if they were messier…or a bit more ironic. Maybe if they involved a bit of the messiness of real life, say a husband giving jewelry because he’s stuck in the dog house. Now that would be interesting.

So what do you think? Jewelry commercials…love them? Hate them? Indifferent?

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Feb 12 2008

Creative Jewelry Storage from Martha Stewart

Pd103555 0108 Jeweldrawer LLeave it to Martha Stewart to come up with some pretty fabulous storage ideas for jewelry. Straight from Martha’s style magazine, Blueprint, you can check out some great ways to store your jewelry pieces while putting them on display at the same time. All you’ll need is some orphaned tea cups, tree branches and some shadow boxes and you’ll be golden!

Check it out here

Thanks to Grace Bonney at Design*Sponge for this link.

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Jan 15 2008

Project Runway Recaps

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Well, we’re in the midst of Season 4 of one of my favorite shows, Project Runway. Thank goodness for DVR because I sure haven’t had time to watch the shows lately. I think I have about 3 or 4 recorded that I’m going to settle down with this weekend armed with my pliers and some wire.

In the meantime, I keep with what’s going on through some pretty funny blog recaps. My two favorite blogs for PR recaps is the one by Elisa Camahort from the BlogHer site and the ones by David Dust. Here’s what David wrote about in an early morning wake up call on the “Eye Candy” episode (#6).

It’s 6:00 am the next day, and Tim Gunn is making his wake-up rounds. Now mind you, these bitches HAVE BEEN TOLD they would have to be up early. Then why does every last one of them look like they just went to bed 15 minutes ago after having consumed a ½ gallon of Popov Vodka??!?? The first to be awakened is Kit “Pistol”, sans bra and even a hint of makeup. OH MY GOD – she looks like HELL! I think Kit Pistol and Yosemite Sam were out huntin’ varmints all night! That Pistol needs some maintenance.

I swear I almost snorted my mocha Frappuccino up my nose! Hilarious!

Anyway, check out the latest recaps here:

Who writes your favorite PR recaps? Feel free to comment about yours!

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Jul 5 2007

Why is envy green?

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Have you ever wondered why the color of envy is green? Or why highlighters are yellow? Or why sports cars are often red? Well, now you can get your answer through these interesting series of posts on the COLOURlovers blog that track the interesting origins of the legends behind colors. Did you know that originally pink was a boy’s color and blue was a girl’s color?

Check out the series here:

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Feb 24 2007

A different use for White-out

One of the blogs I read on a regular basis is the Canadian-based blog about illustration and cartooning, Drawn! There are a ton of talented cartoonists and illustrators out there in the world. Here’s an example of one of them, Dan Zettwoch, who did this illustration on a piece of cardboard…with a Sharpie….and White-out….whilst jet lagged….

…yikes!

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Feb 6 2007

Whatever will they think of next?

Assets Products Pptpgrouping-1 I don’t have any children, but I do have two godsons and a nephew. And I recall a couple of times when I could have used one of these! It would have saved a couple of shirts and the ottoman in the living room. Designed by Lisa Malcic of Beba Bean, go check these cuties out!

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Feb 6 2007

2007 Fall Fashion Report

Web Article Art Fall2007In case you were looking to get a head start on shopping for the fall fashions, Pantone has released its Fashion Color Report for Fall 2007. Looks like they’re predicting a lot rich colors this fall. Ironically these match some of the paper beads I’ve been making for this year’s earrings. I’ve always known I was a trendsetter! :) Or maybe its just from watching three seasons of Project Runway.

The report is in PDF format, so you can check it out on the Pantone site here.

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Jan 10 2007

Which Superhero Are You?

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Hey! I’m Wonder Woman!

Well, not really. I stumbled across this cute little quiz while going through my backlog of blog posts that I didn’t get to last month. Funny that the result turned out to be Wonder Woman, that’s James’ favorite female superhero! :)
So who are you? Check out the Superhero Quiz here.

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Sep 27 2006

Baby Toupee



Baby Toupee

Originally uploaded by Extreme Craft.


This is wrong…just wrong.

This link of wrongness is by way of Extreme Craft. Check out the original post here.Thanks Garth! :)

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Sep 26 2006

My web site…pixelated…



You’re looking at a graphic representation of my web site, Mixed Media Designs. Looks like a pretty little mutated flower. This was done courtesy of a Java program on the Websites as Graphs site. I’m not sure who does this project…they’re kind of light on info, but it’s pretty cool. Pick a web site and check it out!

Thanks to the good folks at Design*Sponge for the link!

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