It's still fashion week around here!

Yes, fashion week comes to a close today, but robertachiarella.com has been coming on strong in the press. Beauty editors, movie stars, actresses have been seen around town wearing some of my jewelry. We've got Mo'Nique pictured with some nice earrings in Ebony, and Whitney Houston is ON TOUR wearing my cuff bracelets.

We were intrigued when the order came in, after all, when you get an order from Whitney Houston, wouldn't you be in shock? Turns out she wanted enough of our Cha-Cha Licious Bracelet for her tour and we were so happy we had them all in stock. These beauties are made with Crystallized Swarovski Elements (tm) and are beauties, click the link and see for yourself!

Essence magazine has a fashion spread showing our crystal mosaic earrings, they look great on the models ear, just as they will look great on yours. I love the crystal mosaics, they are one of my favorites and look so great as they dangle and sparkle.

Redbook is showing Scarlett's necklace, a really spectacular necklace that photos just can't do justice to. This is a really great necklace and we're thrilled it was featured!


Another magazine, Shape Bride features the petite sarah earring, this beautiful favorite is a real popular choice for sparkle and elegance! You know how the petite sarah got it's name, and we made it in a smaller size cause the original is a pretty large CZ. The petite sarah is a 2 karat size earring that's one of our best sellers for weddings. Our studio loves to help with wedding planning, we offer appointments in NYC most days, so if you and your wedding party are in or around the area, give us a call!

And, we're still in awe over our coverage in Vanity Fair, it's so wonderful to see the award winning stud earrings was given the right name when we made it! Lots of people, including some famous ones, are wearing this beautiful piece.

So with the end of fashion week, you'll have to wait till next year to see the gowns, suits and glamor. But, the robertachiarella.com fashion show is still going on! And, for a week longer, we have our amazing sale, just buy two, get one free from our under $25 section of the website, so go and check it out today. To spice up your winter blues, there are plenty of new items, more earrings, more bracelets and more bling! Ciao!

SyFy in Manhattan, microsoft style

There comes a time in every girls life when you've got to upgrade the computer. At robertachiarella.com we've got a bunch of them, with our wireless this and that, a few blackberry's, laptops and a macbook pro. 

Some of our computers are pretty old and won't allow us to run the UPS shipping program we use to make sure our jewelry gets to your house on time. So, it's upgrade time in the office. I got myself the biggest, fastest, coolest looking shiny black machine HP had to offer, stuffed with memory and windows 7 "64 bits", which (I am told) is the way to go.

The programs open faster than I can figure out how to use them, which is a lot better than watching the little hourglass on the screen.
  Of course, you don't just plug it in and go! We had to make all new network connections, and copy all the files from the server that has had Windows 2000 since 2000! Then, you test the whole thing to make sure we're good to go.
It's fun using windows 7, in some ways they have outdone the mac operating system, it's so easy a dog can use it (that's the assistant webmaster in the photo) once you master the learning curve.

And that wasn't easy- trying to learn a new computer this week. Our golden globes work paid off with a great photo shoot in Us Magazine, and some pretty good press. It's amazing that our designs were such good matches for the beautiful (and expensive) diamonds and emeralds that we saw on the red carpet last week. Penelope Cruz and Meryl Streep were pictured wearing some great looking outfits, with earrings that were hard to tell apart from ones at http://www.robertachiarella.com/. Penelope wore earrings similar to "j's jewel earrings" that we feature on our internet store,

Meryl Streep wore an earring nearly identical to a piece we are just introducing, so guess what we called it? Meryl's earring, of course and I'm sure you'll love it. Sales have been great, we're packing and shipping like crazy. One of our brides-to-be used our bridal party discount to outfit her bridesmaids in the J's Jewel earrings, they are certainly elegant enough for a wedding.

You had to cheer for Mo'nique, she had the real things, actual roberta chiarella "unforgettable teardrop earrings" that retail for $98 on our site. I had so much fun working with her on her movie, Precious, and to see her wear my earrings was a real thrill. And we've done a lot of TV watching, renting movies, and reading books thanks to old man winter hitting New York yet again.

It's cold out there, too cold to spend much time outside. Maybe it's just as well, I can work on some new designs and play with my new computer. If I can get the I tunes playlists back, my new internet experience will be complete. Ciao!