Suzy Q + MAKE

I don't think i've mentioned my friend Suzy ~ who creates cute + hip + unique baby clothes. She is an amazing illustrator that i went to school with and still a super duper friend. She just updated her site with all sorts of new choices. Here are my favs! Go have a looksy! FOCOLOCO.COM If you're in Dallas, you can now stop by MAKE and find my graphic jewelry! yippee! makedallas They are revamping the store this week so they have a lot of new crafty items!

Stores that carry Julz

I just sent necklaces to the Blue Bottle Art Gallery in Seattle. WA this week. They're selling my julz in their gallery and in their online store and they've already got the pics posted. On their site, click on gallery + store and then functional art. They have some other really cute stuff too! I sent them a new design that I've added to the line that I haven't even posted on my site yet. If you like to shop online - you can find my jewelry at My Etsy Shop Pixelgirlshop carries my large necklaces and Copacetique carries my small necklaces, rings, bracelets. I also recently created some very special rings for the very talented sara + brian at Cricket-press They handprint the most amazing posters so I created some rings for them with image crops from their posters. If you're in Texas (like me) you can find all of my julz Alter Ego Vintage in Denton.TX Dolly Python in Dallas.TX Parts & Labour in Austin.TX Texas Art Spot in Corsicana.TX In California you can find me at The Orange County Museum in Newport Beach.CA and Hitch Couture This is an independent designer mobile boutique in an airstream trailer! Pavement Shoes in Pittsburgh.PA also carries rings, bracelets + necklaces as well as The Wild Pear in Fort Madison.IA That's where you can find me right now! Of course you can always custom order through Handmade Julz • • • Let's be friends!

Super Terrific

OK. So my goal for the week is to get going with this blog! It seems like every 2 months is becoming a trend...In the last month, I was preparing for the MAKE Urban Street Bazaar that was held in uptown dallas.tx june 2-4 It was the first ever and it was fantastic! It was also my first time to do an all day festival sort of thing but it was really fun! my fabulous friend cara drove up from austin to help me. We had such a great time, I've already signed up for another show STITCH austin that is happening in november! Here are pics from the bazaar. This was our space for the weekend Brian my super terrific boyfriend helped me make that peg board screen! Cara + Brian + Me I made lots of rings + bracelets NEW handmade julz tees! yippee! I met some really cool people over the weekend too. Check out their sites. makedallas > the bazaar was put on by julie of make dallas beadsprouts > beautiful beaded plant hangers cococouture > unique baby clothes + blankies + bags superchica > very cool ceramic necklaces + wrist cuffs + more Last night I added some new necklaces + tees that I had made to my etsy shop. handmadejulz.etsy.com More tomorrow! xo

For your viewing pleasure

Hello! I hope you are all doing fabulous things out in the world! I wanted to let you all know what I have been up to lately. Hopefully I will get better at this blogging thing soon. In the past week I screenprinted new business cards! 2 colors on the front and 1 color on the back Brian and I planted some pretty flowers in our front yard. The yellow ones are Sweet Broom and the Magenta one is a New Zealand Tea Tree I made 4 martini glasses for a donation. I started working with wire + beads a few years ago while wrapping wire around the stems of glasses. At the same time I was making magnets with images that I had drawn displayed under the glass. I merged the 2 thoughts together a couple of years ago and that's where my graphic jewelry started! ;) It was fun to go back and create these glasses and incorporate the graphic jewelry. This week I will be busy preparing for Down2Earth. It's an event my gracious friend Rae has been putting together that will be taking place in Austin, Texas. For those in Austin, please come check it out! rsvp here www.tempoevents.org Friday, April 21, 2006, 6-10 TEMPO,LLc and the AVEDA Experience Center of Barton Creek in Austin are inviting hundreds of colorful earthlings to kick off a spectacular Earth Day Pre-party & Benefit. Nature inspired works will be presented and performed by some of our favorite arts groups to raise the spirit of community, raise awareness and raise support for that which connects us most. Learn more about local and regional issues facing the environment and be moved by Global rhythms. Over the weekend I worked on my display. I sewed a banner out of an old dress that I had been hanging onto for the past 7 years. I think that black + white rocks work nicely with my jewelry and I found an old type tray in our house that wasn't being used. More soon. Have a super week!

first post

It's the first entry in my new blog! I'm really excited about it! I started this because I wanted a place to share new things happening with me + my business. So ~ I've just finished 6 new images. The deer and the unicorn are my favorites! My boyfriend brian and I recently traveled to Houston to see the closing weekend of the Basquiat exhibit. The show was amazing + so cool to see his work up close. He used so many different surfaces as canvases + each painting had so much depth and so many textures. I loved this one! The Happily Handmade Giveaway started last week! I'm one of the participating sponsors. You can register thru my site and several other indie shops to win 1 of the 45 gift boxes! You can enter once through each of the sponsors ~ so the more shops you visit, the more chances you have to win! Winners will be announced on March 31.