March 30 2010

It's been in the works for awhile, but I've finally done it: the original NES controller as a belt buckle!! Check it out!

January 14 2010

*** I am donating 10% of all sales and orders in the next 2 weeks to the Partners In Health: Stand With Haiti Campaign. Partners In Health (PIH) has been working on the ground in Haiti for over 20 years, and they work to bring modern medical care to poor communities in nine countries around the world. The work of PIH has three goals: to care for our patients, to alleviate the root causes of disease in their communities, and to share lessons learned around the world. Please visit http://www.standwithhaiti.org/haiti for more info! ***

December 2009

*Hooray! I am donating one of my PDX Steel Bridge Buckles to PDX Bridge Fest's Bridge Through Time: 99 Years of the Hawthorne Bridge. There will be a Silent Auction featuring select original works by Portland artists (including yours truly!) as well as tickets, packages and membership to portland’s leading cultural institutions. Please join us for a special evening in honor of the Hawthorne Bridge on the eve of its 99th Birthday. Featuring inspired presentations, audio/visual installations, aerial performance, and ragtime music, the event will evoke the spirit of 1910 while looking forward to next year’s centennial celebrations. We are proud to present our December fundraiser as a preview of many more creative endeavors to come!
Friday December 18, 2009 • 6pm-10pm
World Forestry Center
Miller Hall (Portland, OR)

I was absolutely thrilled to discover this wonderful little organization, which is dedicated to the celebration of Portland's many iconic bridges:

The PDX Bridge Festival will reinvent the bridges as a staging grounds for individual works of art and performance. While showcasing the convergence of industrial design and artistic endeavor, and presenting a diverse program of gallery exhibitions, speakers, musical events and performance, we will create a valuable cultural tourist destination in the heart of Portland. Drawing large numbers of visitors and residents to this event, our goal is to bring people together in a spirit of civic pride, aesthetic wonder, and community engagement. In short, PDX Bridge Festival would treat the bridges as a canvas upon which we can tell the story of Portland—who we are, where we come from, where we are going, and how we choose to express the culture of our great city."

And here's a link to my buckle on their merch page!

http://www.pdxbridgefestival.org/merchandise/steel-bridge-belt-buckle/

November 18 2009

*NEW* PDX Steel Bridge Buckle is finally up! Check out the Buckle Page!

August 20 2009

I just created a slide show that gives an in-depth look at the custom process, from idea to finished piece! I've been getting more and more inquires about custom pieces, so I thought this might help for those who are new to the process, or just curious about it. You can find a link in the Gallery Page!

August 11 2009

It's been a few months in the making, but I finally got this new website layout up and running! A few links, namely the Gallery Page, will still be under construction for the next few days, but the important stuff is up!

*New Silver Cloisonne-esque Earrings are coming this week, check in on Monday, August 17th for new postings in the store! This line has been receiving rave reviews, and I'm just as excited to see what new ones come out!

A quick shout-out to all those I met at The Gorge last weekend, what a wonderful weekend, it was my pleasure to meet so many of you, and to get such wonderful feedback on my work! ~LOVE~

July 29 2009

Hooray!! Collective Conscious Artist's Raffle at STS9 was a big hit! $1,000 was raised for Conscious Alliance- the most raised yet by the Collective Conscious Artists group! Congrats to everyone who worked so hard to make this happen, and big heart-felt thanks for all those who contributed & participated!

May 19 2009

I've been asked to join the Collective Conscious artists' raffle! Collective Conscious is a group of artists working together to create art that is inspired by the music of STS9, and donates their work for raffles held at various STS9 shows; tickets are $5 and Collective Conscious donates 100% of the makings from raffles directly to Conscious Alliance.

Conscious Alliance is a phenomenal organization that collects and distributes non-perishable food donations to local food pantries and impoverished communities across the United States through their collaborations with musicians such as String Cheese Incident, STS9, Dave Matthews Band, Jack Johnson, Phil Lesh and many others. They have also successfully built a much needed food storage and distribution facility on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota and have harnessed the momentum behind their cause to expand into disaster relief efforts.

My Mayan belt buckle ("Eye of Quetzalcoatl"), along with several other wonderful, Mayan-themed works of art, will be raffled off at STS9's "Day Out of Time" celebrations at The Fillmore & Red Rocks shows in CO, July 24 & 25!

Check it out!

STS9 "Day Out of Time" Celebrations/Collective Conscious Raffle

Conscious Alliance

*NEW* : "Four Winds" Belt Buckle

*Mother's Day Sale: Pearl Chandelier Earrings!*

$6 off! Now til Mother's Day, May 10th!

April 10 2009

*NEW*

~"Hunab Ku" Belt Buckles!

~Leaf Cuff Bracelet

Mar 20 2009

New Custom belt buckle! See Gallery Page!

Feb 15 2009

*NEW* Smaller-sized earrings & pins! A few of you have requested/suggested a smaller size for the earrings and pins, and while I wasn't entirely sure how well they would turn out, given the tighter corners and angles involved, they actually came out quite nicely! The diameter size is about 3/4 inch, and will be available in all the bead varieties currently available for the larger size. Pics & purchase availability scheduled for Tuesday, Feb 17th, thanks for your patience!

Jan 22 2009

*NEW* Obama Necklaces!!

Jan 20 2009: Inauguration Day!

Wow...what a day!! Cheers, congrats, and joyous celebrations all around! This is our moment- we did this, you and I... all of us, collectively, as one, made the impossible possible. I will never forget this moment, and the movement that made it happen. A change has most certainly come. And the energy is electrifying, the inspiration incredibly invigorating! We are living in a phenomenal time right now, in the transition from outgrowing an outmoded historic paradigm and evolving beyond... it is a privilege and blessing to be here now, to watch it, live it, be it. I have great hopes for our new America. I hope you do too.

It has also been such an incredible pleasure and honor to meet so many of you who have been admiring, wearing, and representing my Obama accessories! This is the only reason I started production on this line of art- to be able to offer you a token as my appreciation of your commitment, faith, and hard work! I have been shipping orders all over the country, and it makes me so happy to be able to do this for all of you! I even sent a few earrings to a lovely lady in Hong Kong, who wanted to wear them for the Inauguration day celebrations there! Apparently, the entire world is rejoicing just as much as we are, if not more!! This project has grown into such an amazing experience, and I cannot thank you enough!

Stay UP, and thank you for being YOU!

Jan 13 2009

The Gallery is up! Detailed pages done for the first few, more to come in the next few days.

Jan 11 2009

Hooray! Pendant & other new pics up!

Jan. 02 2009

Many of you have been expressed great interest in my Obama-inspired line of jewelry (premiered on eBay .com and etsy.com), and I am delighted and pleased that reception of this piece has been so positive! I will be busy making many more earrings, pins, and pendants, especially in preparation for Inauguration Day (Jan 20 2009). I expect the paypal shopping cart to be up in 3-4 days, but if you want to get your order in now, you can hit me up at:

lolo@lolo-ology.com