Point Loma Luster

Oh wow.  I’m waaaay behind on posting.  Well, let’s get the ball rolling again with some photos from our Memorial Day vacation in San Diego. We started our road trip from the northern ‘burbs on Saturday morning at the crack of dawn.  Well, it was 8am, but it felt early.  Unfortunately, it was not early enough.…

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PROFILES IN JEWELRY: PICTOFACTUM, A BERLIN ORIGINAL

If you follow the international press, you’ve heard that right now Berlin is the epicenter of artistic creativity in Germany – if not in all of Europe.  (I’ve heard tales of creative geniuses working alone for days in basement cellars of old East Berlin factories.  Maybe you have, too?!)  Full of curiosity about the creative…

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Blickfang: Design Shopping in Hamburg

We had seen (well-designed!) signs all over Hamburg for Blickfang, the International Design Shopping Show.  The show began years ago in Stuttgart, Germany, and has been traveling to different cities in Europe over the last couple of years.  We weren’t sure what to expect, but when I see the words shopping and design in the…

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