The Gift of Bellissima

I know it's not always easy for our fans to find us in their local stores, and Bellissima makes a pretty nice gift for the ladies in your life, so I've compiled some websites where you can buy some Bellissima just in time for the holidays, hope this helps!

First off, there's Max & Chloe, a great jewelry website, as many of you probably already know.  They've just updated our jewelry, and there are many of our bestselling styles to choose from.

Click here to shop for Bellissima @ Max & Chloe!

Some of our pieces featured on Max & Chloe website

Then, there's our friends over in Louisiana, The Garden Gates.  They're a small business, they offer free shipping, and they sell A LOT of our bestselling styles, so you should definitely check them out!

Click Here to Shop Bellissima @ The Garden Gates

Some of our Jewels at the Garden Gates

There's also Sloan, a great boutique located in Charlotte, they've featured us in their holiday gift guide (which has some GORGEOUS accessories in it), and they're another great small business to buy from.

Click Here To Shop Sloan's Holiday Gift Guide!

Featured in Sloan's Holiday Gift Guide

Our friends at Sassanova also feature a lot of our bestsellers in tortoise and gator.

Click Here to Shop @ Sassanova!

Love our chain necks?  Love them in Summer neutrals like horn, gator and turquoise?  Buy them at Isabel Harvey! (they also are selling our tapered cuffs)

Click here to shop Bellissima at Isabel Harvey

A little something for the snowbirds sold at Isabel Harvey

If brights and free shipping are your thing, check our our store at Amazon, which will also be featuring many of our neutrals very soon.

Click here to shop Bellissima on Amazon

If you feel like shopping in a local store, I did blog about that sort of recently:
CLICK HERE to view the stores we are in, hopefully in a boutique near you!

There's No Place Like Happy Hour for the Holidays

Every year around this time, we solidify a date for our Bellissima Holiday sale at Common Ground, in NYC.  All our fans and friends come out to buy some gifts for loved ones and themselves.  We have some drinks, maybe some paninis and it's always a lot of fun.  We always like to give some portion of the proceeds to charity.  Historically, we donate to the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society, but this year we will donate to the victims of Hurricane Sandy.  It's looking like it's going to be a cold winter, and a very hard Holiday season for a lot of New Yorkers.  So, on a happy note, we'll be doing our small part to help those who were hit hard by Sandy.  So, come on out, and let's do some good while having a good time!  

Cheesy but true...

Here are the deets:

Thursday, December 6th 

at Common Ground

206 Avenue A (bet. 12th St. & 13th St.)

6PM-9PM

Happy Hour specials on food and drinks til 8PM

We will also be at the Sotheby's Holiday Bazaar on Tuesday, December 4th.  During the day, from 12-4pm, so if you're in the neighborhood and can't make it on the 6th, it is open to the public, so you can visit us on your lunch break.  Better lighting, but no booze-you be the judge.

Some of our Honey and Black Pieces

And Bronze and deco

Some of our favorite cuffs

Assorted Earrings

If you're into neons

Some pretty tortoise combinations

Great Mom gifts!

Tortoise Stunner

More fun tortoise and neutral combos.

 There will be lot's more there, and if there's anything that you're looking for that you didn't see, let us know!  See you there!

Pippa Middleton wears Bellissima

Pippa Middleton has written a book.  Pippa wore two pairs of Bellissima's tortoise shell earrings to her book launch and promotional events.  This is very exciting!  Johanna Simonds Jewelry in London carries many of our designs, and Johanna is one of our most dedicated and loyal promoters.  She loves our line, and her passion for it shows.  If you live across the pond and love our designs, you can buy online (www.johannasimonds.com) or contact Johanna through her website.

Here are some images of Pippa and our Earrings!

At the book launch

A close-up of our double crescent drop earring

This is our oval drop earring

Wearing the oval drop earring at a children's Halloween party, an event promoting her new book

The video above is of Pippa wearing the earrings at the Halloween party.  If you can't get enough of celebrities wearing Bellissima, watch it!

Tortoiseshell Trendwatch and Other Press We've Stumbled Upon

Our Tokyo Tortoise Bib Neck

Two weeks ago, our tortoise shell bib neck shown above was featured in a Trend Watch article in Time Out New York (GO HERE) all about, your guessed it Tortoiseshell: faux tortoiseshell.  It's a fun article, and while tortoise NEVER goes out of style, it's nice whenever it trends, of course!
We received the press through Max & Chloe, a great place to buy jewelry online.  They feature so many beautiful fine and fashion jewelry lines, and they've been great to work with.  If you're ever looking to purchase some Bellissima online, you should check us out on Max & Chloe for sure. 

Unfortunately I cannot provide the print version from the magazine because I left it in Oakland last week, right next to a Lucky Magazine article that unbeknownst to me, featured a pair of our earrings available at Bauble Bar.   When I went to the earrings on Bauble Bar's site, I saw that the earrings were featured in Self Magazine this past July, who knew??
 http://baublebar.com/index.php/fashion-jewelry/earrings/dot-drop-earrings.html

Sooo, if you ever see us anywhere, give us a shout out, we don't always know where we appear, but we always love the recognition!

My Favorite Fall Accessory

RINGS!!!

 There's a time of year when you have finally stopped perspiring profusely, and you actually find yourself welcoming the cold.  You look forward to pulling your favorite sweaters out of your closet, and your fingers have gone back to their normal, non-swelled size.  Fall is upon us, and as I reached for my warm, cozy old sweaters this week, I also found myself reaching for my favorite statement rings, that I tend to leave behind during the summer months.

This year, Bellissima has a fun new ring, perfect for this time of year, and we basically have one in all the colors that you would ever need!  I like to wear the red one with my favorite black cardigan, but I love to wear the safari color with my favorite brown sweater.  The options are endless!

The rings are hand-bent to an approximate size 7, so whichever finger they'll fit, they're sure to be a hit-hahaha (it's Friday afternoon, I can't help myself)...They're an inexpensive way to keep your fall wardrobe fun and fresh, which I intend to do until glove season is upon us!

These Are a Few of Our Bestselling Things

We had a pretty great Winter 2012 market, and as the fall season gets underway, we wanted to share some of our bestsellers with you.  Some of the styles and colors will be of no surprise to anyone, and as usual, our bestsellers are the simple styles that really show off the beauty of the material we work with.  Lightweight and easy to wear, all these styles are bold statements, but without the clunky weight that many attention-getting cuffs, earrings and necklaces seem to have.

Our always popular small and large filigree cuffs in light horn, tokyo tortoise, gator and green horn

Our bestselling chunky 21" flat-link chain in green horn, light horn and tokyo tortoise

We decided to show our popular cabochon cuff on a tokyo tortoise base in an array of cabochon colors.  Shown here are black, light horn and persimmon

This is our long and lean chain, it easily doubles making it very versatile.  Shown in safari, tokyo tortoise and black

Our newest filigree design, it also comes in a cuff.  They're lots of fun! Shown in Light horn, tokyo tortoise and magenta

Our new crescent earring is so simple and comfortable, and it did really well!  Shown in Safari, green horn and tokyo

Our 2" cuff, a classic!  Shown in safari, tokyo tortoise and green horn

Ah, the buckle cuff.  It won't break, so just force it on!  Once on, it's stunning.  Shown in tokyo tortoise, gator and green horn

Our skinny hoops in small, medium and large.  The small and medium in tokyo are so hard to keep in stock, I almost feel like every woman in America may own a pair at this point! Shown in safari, gator and tokyo tortoise

Our set of three skinny bangles saw a revival this market, and it's now surprise, they're chic staples to anyone's wardrobe and can easily be stacked with other bracelets. Shown in green horn, black, light horn and tokyo tortoise.

So, there they are our bestsellers for fall/winter 2012.  If you would like to purchase these for your store, call us up or request a catalog!  If you're just a Bellissima fan and want some for yourself, check out this post of our updated stores (and online stores) that carry our line: Come and Get Us

Oprah Magazine October 2012

Bellissima's compact mirrors were just featured in the October 2012 issue of The Oprah Magazine.  We made her "O" List, which is pretty exciting.  Unfortunately, the monkey mirror is now discontinued, but the store we gave our press credit to, A Bientot in Houston, is carrying an equally adorable monkey mirror of ours, and we hear it's doing great! You can see it in our:  compact mirror post

Oprah Magazine Cover

Our monkey, whale and frog

We also made it to the back at their shopping guide!