Happy Royal Easter

Happy Easter everybody! Our family celebrated today at my brothers house, enjoying traditional easter foods, roast lamb, pizza rustica and sweets, oh lots of sweets. We have a lot to celebrate this week so we made sure to do it in a 'royal' fashion.

I'm sure you all are following the fashion feeding frenzy surrounding the royal wedding of Kate Middleton and Prince William, which will take place next week. It's a big bang to start one of our busiest seasons in the jewelry business- bridal season. So, to get into the spirit I called my friends over at Buckingham Palace, and sure enough, the Queen was so stressed out with what's going on in her house, she readily accepted our invitation. 


The Chiarella Easter Dinner

 She is actually quite nice in person, and thought former commonwealth subject Thomas Nguy's famous mashed potatoes with garlic were better than what her chef serves up over in London. She even made her coachman drag-race down Manor Rd. against esteemed poet and author Eric Thomas Norris, who narrowly beat the royal carriage with Joe's corvair. It was a sight, I wouldn't have believed it if I hadn't seen it with my own eyes!

Seriously, this year is obviously starting out with some spectacular jewels, and I'm lucky enough to be right in the middle of some of the festivities. We made a wonderful necklace to celebrate the one worn by Ms. Middleton the day Prince William asked for her hand in marriage. Us magazine did a feature on this and used our 'Kates Necklace' for the shoot. It came out fantastic, and it's now on sale for you at only $68. I love it, made with Swarovski Elements and a great 16" chain.

Kate's Necklace, the royal one!

If that isn't enough for you, keep an eye out every day this week for the Today Show's daily coverage of the Royal Wedding. I had the pleasure of working with the ever fabulous Jill Martin as we filmed a piece showing my version of some royal jewels you can expect to see (if you're willing to get up at 3:00 AM next friday).

I am not sure which day we'll all get to see what we put together, but there are going to be a lot of great pieces on display at this affair,

 and you can bet I'll be whipping up a few that will give us commoners the royal look you'll see in London next week. We'll post up the jewelry for you the minute the royal family steps in front of the cameras, so you can get the look you want with Roberta Chiarella quality and prices that will make the royal jewelers faint. Ciao!