At the One of a Kind Spring Show & Sale

I had so much fun at the show as usual! I love feeling the buzz in the air and seeing the familiar faces every show. Over the years we have gotten to know our regular customers and it is such a joy to watch little kids grow up, girls get married, lovely mamas return with new additions, different generations enjoying the One of a Kind Show together.  I was once the little kid that went to the Show too.  As a crafty little one, I LOVED it and always left feeling inspired to make things and excited about my new purchases.  Thinking back, it must have been in the early years of the Show that my Mom and Aunt L. first brought me and my Sister.  Aunt L. thinks I was 5 or 6, so that would be the early 1980's.  I love to think that people are going home with my work and cherishing it the way I still adore me some handmade goods.  Anyhow, enough about me.  Here are some photos taken over this five day Show.

This is the charming Jillian of Headmistress Accessories in one of her flower crowns and the Moonshadow Necklace in Blush.  Jill reports that she wears it often and I think it looks amazing on her!

 Here is the delicate Dainty Bracelet.  This customer found one that perfectly matched her scarf.

The newest addition to the line -- The Carnival Necklace.  This is the Coral combo, but 6 other combos are also available!

See!  Here is Jill again!  She and her sis are both sporting Carnival Necklaces!

Lion Necklace... A Tiger Necklace is also available.

The talented designers of Patouche and Julie Sinden Handmade fame.  One came already wearing MoonRox.  Both left wearing some Rox!

This family now each has a Gem Necklace.  The last remaining holdout of the four ladies (one is not in the photo) picked out one at this Show.  They are all such lovely people and wear the necklaces so well! Makes me super happy!

Good Friday at the Show was manic.  I recalled previous Good Fridays being busy, but I had forgotten how crazy it can get.  This was taken when I sat down to make a quick phone call.  The only three minutes spent seated that day!  I'm wearing an arm load.  L-R: Tassel Bangle, Moonshadow Bracelet, Floral Crystal Bauble Bracelet, Entwined Stalactite Bracelet and Entwined Wrap Bracelet.

The next day I managed to steal a few moments to check out some of the work out there!  I enjoyed the new Etsy Section.  These are some adorable prints from ZukZuk.

Also happened on these heavenly soaps on my wanderings.  They are from Liv Simple Farms and are all natural goat's milk and lavender based with other essential oils blended in.  Can't wait to try them out.  Wished I had a chance to check out some of their other products too...

I've long admired the photographic art pieces from Patrick Lajoie.  There was a large round piece of a beach scene that was happy and ethereal and just lovely.  

This is a snapshot from the Scout & Catalogue booth.  Such divine scarves and accessories.  I snatched one up and will show you a pic in my next post.

I was so happy to meet my new Intsagram friend from Swaine Street Woodworking.  Jana was so friendly and warm and she makes perfect cutting boards.  

Zoomed around to visit some of the friends also exhibiting. Here is a photo of the sweet textile plant pots that Bookhou is now making.  Love the idea of a soft item that is almost always not! 

And speaking of talented friends... Here is Stacey of Dagg and Stacey outfitted entirely in a dreamy ensemble of Dagg and Stacey and MoonRox jewels.

And now back to some more MoonRox pics... A pile of Confection Bracelets good enough to eat!

Blogger Laura of Wellington and Grey in a the Tassel Bracelet that perfectly matched her outfit, but it was another that went home with her.

Prior to the show I had done my nails in a pattern inspired by the Carnival Necklace, so when we sold out, I just had to stay up late to make more!

A sunny yellow Moonshadow Necklace getting packed up in a sweet little box!

Taking a breather in my favourite Dagg and Stacey dress with the Chevron Necklace, a Confection Bracelet and two Tassel Bangles.

Fashion designer Eve Gravel in her new Fireworks Necklace.  I love these... and thought it suited Eve perfectly.  Looks amazing.

This is a photo of me that J. Mo took.  Thank you to J.Mo, A.C., B.C., J.S., S.P., S.F., V.G. and my Mom for all the manpower and hard work prior to and over the course of the Show as well as during set-up and take-town.  And thank you also to those that kindly offered up their help and supported me in other ways!

C'est tout! There ended another One of a Kind Show.  Thank you to everyone that came by and supported MoonRox.  We have the very best customers in the world and I'm already looking forward to the Christmas Show.  Thank you, thank you!

xo

M

P.S.  One more OoaK post ahead... the goodies I made away with!

Workings

March was so cold... and April seems to be starting off the same way.  These are a few photos taken while huddled indoors working away in preparation for last week's One of a Kind Show.  This post, and likely the next couple are rather delayed, but I have had a lot to catch up on, so please excuse me!

A pile of gloriously shiny beads to create with.

Confection Bracelets in progress.  Delicious colours new for this season are not shown in this photo...

Love how the days are getting longer.  Everything looks better in daylight.  Moonshadow pieces in progress.

Hot cup of tea and colourful beading.

A new Tiny Necklace to add to the big list of Tinies!  The Tiny Book Locket Necklace!

Little bit obsessed with this one lately.  The Bow Bracelet.  I wear it almost every day stacked with lots of other MoonRox pieces.

Tagging Hair Pins.
(Thank you to J.S. that helped me tag every single earring, necklace and bracelet!  You are the best!!)

Got stickers printed.

The Carnival Necklace!  A new design that was just introduced at the Show.  We have so many great customers that are so familiar with the line and are so kind as to come to my booth every time, so I always like to introduce some new things they have not seen yet.  Always have to create a few showstoppers designed to launch at the Show!  These are so fun.  I cannot get enough of the amazing juicy colours.  I had the frosted drop-shaped beads for a little while and could not settle on what to do with them.  Finally came up with this and I am pretty pleased!  I had so much fun choosing just the right colour combinations.  The Necklace is super wearable and perfect for that pop of colour that is so hot this season!

The Carnival Necklace comes in 7 fantastic colour combos and is now available as part of the Spring/Summer Collection.  Have a look here to find out more.

In the next post, we'll share some photos taken at the Show.

Last month

The beginning of the year has been hectic... and I'm not exactly sure why! So, I have been a bit lax on the blogging!  To make up for it, here is a mega-dump of photos taken in the first month of 2013.  As you can see, there has been plenty of work, eat and drink.  This Winter has been so much colder than our balmy one last year. Makes me want to hibernate more, but then I bore easily and go out to do things and visit with people as much as I can. Bit of a constant conflict really...  It has been hard to focus on work with this easily distracted behaviour, but somehow things seem to always come together in the end!  I love the challenge of meeting a deadline! Debuted the Spring/Summer line at the trade show last week and received such a nice response!  Soon we'll have the website up to date and can show you the new goodies too! There are some sneak peeks in this post... but in the meantime, grab the SALE items in the shop while they are available!  A freshen up is coming very soon!!

Here are some photos!  Sorry for the redundancy if you follow on Instagram!  If you don't follow yet, look for @moonrox_ca.

Crystal Bauble Bib Necklace (available soon)

Studs!

Tasty burger.

New camera purchased at a Boxing Day sale.  Loving it so far, especially with this rad case!

Testing out new camera on this fun make-up palette.

Became addicted to hot toddies.

A lovely Winter sunset.

Supply shopping search.

Love old ribbons.

Confection Bracelets.

Healthy meal after too many days of cookies and donuts!

Did a little boot operation and made them less jingly.  These are good S#$!-kickers as my Sister and I call them.

Nugget Necklace and an armload of bracelets.

Brunch.  I had the fried chicken sandwich.  So good.

Every cell phone I have had before the one with which this photo was taken.  No, I don't know why I keep them.

Chinese staircase braid.  Not sure what is so Chinese about it, but it's easy to do and looks pretty interesting.

Here's something Chinese. Fortune and Chinese food.  

We used to go to this restaurant in their previous location every Sunday at the same time.  They loved my Grandfather and treated him like gold.  They always saved us the same table by the front window and still welcome us super warmly so many years later.

Entwined Rope Bracelet and Confection Bracelet.

Dinner with the friends.  Think I out ate the two of them combined.

Nouveau Earrings, available soon.

Sunny day in the city.

Dug out the wire and beaded bikini designed for a Tribe Magazine cover in the year 2000.  

Multi-jewel-toned nails.

Diner outing.

Afternoon work session.  Nice to change the scenery once in a while.

Looking for some new colours!

Looks chilly, but this was a day that was warm enough to work outside on toxic things!  Crazy surprise for January.

Most awesome phone case.

Blossom Stud Earrings.

Afternoon breaks...

in pretty cafés.

Love wearing black and gold lately.

Left to Right:  Shine Bracelet (coming soon), dconstruct jewelry bangle, Entwined Stalactite Bracelet, Bow Bracelet (coming soon), and another by dconstruct.

Fancy huh?

I'm still kind of in love with our new MoonRox logo.  Also a bit obsessed with these gorgeous gold edges.

Love all the new tags too!

These Origami Hair Pins look fab on them.

Broke the little mirror I keep to check out new designs as I work.  Really hoping seven years of bad luck does not ensue.

 Expertly prepared cocktails: Pomme de Terroir

 and Old Fashioned.

(Freeze the water in the glass the night before.  Good tip.)

Pod Earrings.  Check the SALE section on the website... In a few days they will be gone!

Thoroughly addicted to eating this: Grilled chicken breast, chopped cucumber, tomato, marinated kale on quinoa with toasted pine nuts and dried cranberries.  Deelish.

Twinkle Pearl Creme Necklace.  

Send an email to info (at) moonrox (dot) ca if you are interested.  Other colours are available!!

Doughnut and coffee catch-ups.

Downtown at sunset while the moon rose.

Bundled up on a snowy trade show prep day... lugging stuff around.

Pictures from the Mode Show:  Entwined Bracelets

Cute and tasty cake pop from the lovely people at Headmistress.  

Greeting buyers with an armload of currently available to order pretties.

Especially obsessed with these three of late.

Shine Bracelet, Entwined Stalactite Bracelet and Bow Bracelet.

Got these sparkly little rings from my friends at House of Moda.  They are oh so lovely. This photo does not do them justice.

Enjoyed hanging with the talented illustrator and accessories designer behind Mehoi.

Ozlem of House of Moda in some dainty necklaces from their line piled on with the Moonshadow Necklace.

Exhibition floor.

Karyn of Lilliput Hats loaded up with the new Shine and Tiger Necklaces, both available soon.

My favourite part of these shows is visiting with other creative people and favourite buyers!  Thank you to all the retailers that stopped by our booth!

Next day, was back downtown and working away...

Bubbly Stud Earrings.  Only a few pairs remain!

Can't seem to stop dotting the nails.

And there went January!  

Be back with more soon!

xo

M