Sorella’s Star Turn on “CSI”

A couple of weeks ago we received a call from someone on the production design team for the CSI TV series. They were interested in our Horoscope charms for an upcoming episode, and ended up purchasing a set of two of two different horoscopes.

Oh, how excited were we! “Can we ask how our charms will factor into the story?” we asked with excitement. The answer threw us for a surprise.

We don’t want to ruin the story and suspense for the millions of CSI fans out there, so just suffice it to say that the storyline includes a bit of a bawdy carnival show with our charms worn in a way we hadn’t thought of ! Although the fact they were bought in sets might give you some idea.

Unfortunately they weren’t able to tell us the air date and we forgot to ask whether this was CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, CSI: Miami, or CSI: NY (we suspect it was CSI: Crime Scene Investigation), so we have our DVR’s set to record every new episode of of all three CSI versions!

The Whole Fam-damily Gets Into The Act

Naming our studio after the Italian word for “sister” gives you a good idea of how important family is to Lynn and me. The third sorella, our sister Jill, is a talented graphic and fine artist who also is a significant artistic contributor to Sorella.

The three of us aren’t just sisters, we’re best friends. And we’re lucky to have amazing family members who are just fun people to hang out with.

So, a couple of weeks ago when we needed to shoot our new Mosaic Stacking Ring Collection we reached out to our niece Amanda (Jill’s daughter) to be our ring model.  Amanda came to the photo shoot with her two adorable little boys – Brady (3 years) and Max (7 months). So Lynn invited her daughter, Alexandra, to “baby wrangle” during the shoot. It was truly a family production.

The result was great photos and another great time with family.

Introducing The Mosaic™ Stacking Ring Collection

At Sorella we’re big fans of the stacking ring style and they’ve always been a main feature of our collection. Our customers are obviously big fans too, because they’ve made our stacking rings one of our biggest sellers.

That’s why we’re so excited to introduce a new stacking ring collection that really lets you create meaningful and very customized ring collages.

The Mosaic™ Stacking Ring Collection consists of fourteen individual rings of different shapes, sizes, and personalization that you can mix and match in any combination. Each ring is designed to fit perfectly with every other ring in the collection.

Choose from gemstones of different sizes and shapes, initials, names, words, dates (Roman numerals), and texture rings to design your own personal mosaic. The rings are really designed to be worn in multiples so we’re offering a sizable 20% discount off of every ring when you purchase three or more.

Unleash your imagination and creativity. Create mosaics celebrating your children, your love, your life.

Visit the Mosaic Stacking Ring Collection

Photographing Jewelry Can Drive You To Drink

Ask any professional photographer and they’ll all tell you that jewelry is one of the toughest products to photograph. Why? Because metal is highly (and maddeningly) reflective.

What happens is that the jewelry reflects whatever is near by. Place the jewelry on a purple piece of fabric and your silver rings will have purple highlights. Add more light to offset that color and your silver jewelry looks flat and loses all detail and sparkle.

We amateur photographers can definitely improve the quality of our jewelry photos with practice and research, but there is no substitution for the skill and knowledge of a professional product photographer.

At Sorella, we try to shoot a photo of each piece of jewelry that we ship out. (You can see some of our work in our Photos Slide Show.) But we also regularly work with professional commercial photographer, Bob Foran, of Ann Arbor, Michigan to take photos of our collections.

This past week we had an all day shoot with Bob in his studio and he took some fabulous shots of some new pieces (can’t wait to share them with you!) and some of our best sellers.

You’ll be seeing these new products and new photos on our site and in some of your favorite magazines starting late summer. Stay tuned. Sorella is stepping out!

More Offbeat Love. This time From Mamas.

The quirky folks at Offbeat Bride also have a site focused on the next life stage after the wedding, Offbeat Mama. Weddings and Mothers …. hmmm… could there be a more perfect fit for Sorella’s personalized jewelry? And not just any weddings and mothers … but unique, individual, quirky, offbeat weddings and mothers. Any wonder that we love the Offbeat folks?

Lucky for us, they love us too! They’ve posted a lovely little review of our original mothers jewelry collection. Check it out! Sorella’s Offbeat Mama Review

Offbeat Mama is a wonderful escape from all those generic, bland, cookie-cutter and totally clueless mother blogs out there. This site is about real mothers and their real experiences and celebrates the wide variety of styles, beliefs, and experiences. Viva la difference!

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