Style It Your Way

While designing each collection I always think about who the Brooklyn Designs woman is. I love hearing feedback from my customers and to be able to meet you in person and to interact is always a highlight for me. Through meeting all of you and listening to what you have to say and seeing how you wear your Brooklyn Designs it helps me to decide how to carry my designs into each new season. One of the most important parts about designing Brooklyn Designs is being able to create versatile pieces that you can wear to work, on the weekends and to special events.

Here are a few examples of how you can style your Brooklyn Designs your way, whether you're going out to lunch with friends or are on your way to work.

 Here is a great look for the weekend for a day of shopping with friends. Pair your favorite denim with a comfortable pair of boots and cute feminine lace top with some of our new Fall 2012 designs. We've featured our Gold Branch Earrings, Amethyst Swarovski Crystal & Black Onyx Pavé GF Bracelet, Swarovski Crystal & Black Onyx Pavé GF Bracelet, Crystal Pavé Ring Gold-filled Necklace and Vermeil Leaf Ring.

Jeans, Boots, Lace Top

This would be a great look for the office. Pair a simple sheath dress with black pumps and a structured bag for easy basics and add a touch of sparkle and colour with our Emerald Pendant, Gold Druzy Earrings, Gold Druzy Bracelet and Green Onyx Double Chain Bracelet to create a modern look.

Dress, Black Pumps, Handbag

We hope you are able to find inspiration to style your Brooklyn Designs through our blog posts and facebook page your way. 

Celebrity Style: Leaf Earrings

Some of our favorite designs are inspired by botanical elements and we just can't get enough of leaf earrings. Whether they are adorned with sparkling swarovski crystals or are highly detailed and elegant on their own, our leaf inspired earrings are always and forever popular.

Lately we've seen some of our favorite celebrities wearing leaf earrings and we wanted to share a few with you. We are big fans of The Vampire Diaries and the gorgeous Nina Dobrev has a great boho chic style of her own. She been  seen wearing leaf earrings just like our Open Leaf Swarovski Fringe Earrings at Coachella and on the red carpet.

Get the look with our Gold Open Leaf Swarovski Fringe Earrings and the Silver version as well.

Here are some more great celebrity leaf earring looks with Debra Messing, Selena Gomez & Nina Dobrev.

 Get the look with our Addison Earrings, Swarovski & Gold Leaf Earrings & Gwen Earrings

For more Leaf Earrings and other botanical inspired jewels visit our website.

This post was first published in 2012.
We have updated the links on this post with our most up to date
styles from our current collection!

Styling: Boho Chic

I've been having some fun playing with different fashion styles on Polyvore this weekend and want to share some of the different looks with you. Polyvore is a great place to find fashion inspiration and to play with different fashion looks without having to go anywhere! You just need to be creative and have fun with their different design tools.

The first look I want to share is Boho Chic inspired. I was thinking Modern Hippie when I put this together and it's actually an outfit that I wear myself. I have layered a few pieces from some of my favorite deisgners Gypsy 05 and 7 For All Mankind to create a fun and casual outfit that is easy to wear on the weekends and days off.

Modern Hippie Chic

In this Polyvore post the following Brooklyn Designs jewels have been featured:

1. Silver Branch Earrings

2. Long Tree Of Life Sterling Necklace

3. Pearl Chalcedony & Pavé Swarovski Sterling Bracelet 

4. Swarovski Crystal & Black Onyx Pavé Sterling Bracelet 

Do you like to play and create on polyvore?  Follow us at BrooklynDesigns.

Celebrity Style: Rosary & Tusk Necklaces

We've had lots of fun with our Fall 2012 Collection and always try to stay on trend by designing modern but classic pieces. One current trend that we're loving are Tusk (otherwise known as Horn) Pendants. We designed a gorgeous long Tusk Charm Necklace for our Spring 2012 Collection and have recently introduced our Hammered Gold Tusk Necklace for Fall 2012. We've been seeing some of our favorite celebrities wearing their own Tusk Necklaces lately and two of our favorites are Gwyneth Paltrow and Jessica Alba. Gwyneth and Jessica have an incredible sense of style and always look amazing. 

Get the look with our Long Gold Tusk Necklace, Long Silver Tusk Necklace and our Hammered Gold Tusk Necklace

Another trend we're loving are Rosary Style Necklaces. These are classic pieces that always look stylish and are great for layering too. We recently saw actress Amber Heard wearing a simple Rosary Style Necklace and we have our own version that is a great look as well. We've incorporated a sparkling Pavé Crystal center bead and a gorgeous large Clear Swarovski Crystal Pendant with Sterling Silver chain to create this amazing and easy to wear necklace.

Get the look with our Swarovski Pavé Crystal Sterling Lariat Necklace

We're busy updating our site with all of our new designs, look for new pieces daily.



This post was first published in 2012.
We have updated the links on this post with our most up to date
styles from our current collection!

Burgundy

This Fall one of our favorite colours is back in style, Burgundy. With it's rich tones and different hues, Burgundy is an incredibly flattering shade for every woman to wear. This season we've added some gorgeous jewels in a stunning Bordeaux Swarovski Pearl so that you can accessorize and play with this gorgeous colour. Here is a look at an outfit and how you can add Brooklyn Designs jewelry to create a modern layered look.

Here are the pieces we've layered:
1. Bordeaux Swarovski Pearl GF Fringe Hoop Earrings
2. Hammered Gold-filled Tusk Necklace
3. Jasper Arrowhead Long Charm Necklace 
4. Swarovski Crystal & Black Onyx Pavé GF Bracelet 
5. Bordeaux Swarovski Pavé Gold-filled Bracelet
6. Smoky Quartz Cushion Cut Vermeil Ring 
7. Vermeil Leaf Ring 

We hope you learn to love Burgundy and it's flattering ways this Fall as much as we do!

  

Celebrity Style - Delicate Necklaces

We are all inspired by celebrity style these days. And why wouldn't we? Lots of these talented ladies have incredible style and look effortlessly cool in their day to day life. Delicately layered necklaces are one of our favorite modern trends that doesn't seem to go out of style. Here are a couple examples of some great layering pieces and delicate necklaces inspired by some of our favorite leading ladies.

Here's a great photo of Gwen Stefani wearing a delicate broken heart necklace.

Get the look with our Sterling Silver Angel Wing Necklace and Sterling Silver Feather Necklace

One of our favorites, Lauren Conrad always layered delicate gold necklaces for a classic look.

Get the look with our Wishbone Charm Necklace, Gold-filled Double Strand Necklace & Vermeil Tree of Life Necklace

For more great looks you can create yourself shop our website at www.brooklyndesigns.ca.

Happy styling!

This post was first published in 2012.
We have updated the links on this post with our most up to date
styles from our current collection!

The Secret Circle

Sometimes in life you are given opportunities and they can be incredible gifts. Last year I was given an awesome opportunity to meet with the costume designer for The Secret Circle and she loved my jewelry and used it for the show! I watched every episode in a way that I never had watched t.v. before. It was such a thrill to see my creations worn a major American network show and my jewels were on nearly every episode too. I started watching The Vampire Diaries as well and found myself hooked on these two fantasy genre shows. The Secret Circle was getting better and better with every episode and the witchcraft and characters were played so well. It was such a disappointment to find out that the network had cancelled the series and wasn't bringing it back for a second season. The season (series) finale was SOOO good, the story lines that could have continued in to the second season were going to be great to watch. I am still crossing my fingers that another network will pick it up for a second season.

It was so great for me to have had such an incredible opportunity and I will never forget it. The Secret Circle will be a fabulous memory for me in my jewelry career. Here are some of the pieces that were worn on the show.

Spring 2012 Photo Shoot

We have just finished another photo shoot with Laura from Magnolia Photographic and couldn't be happier with how everything turned out. Her sister Susan was gracious enough to model for us again and she looks stunning!

Here are just a few shots from the shoot. Have a look at our website for more of them and be sure to click on all of the new Spring 2012 jewels to see how they look when worn. It's a great way to make your online shopping experience better when you can see what the jewelry looks like on a person.

Hart of Dixie

Vermeil Oak Leaf Necklace

Vermeil Fleur De Lis Key Necklace

Gold-filled Cameo & Swarovski Charm Necklace



So far we are loving this adorable show, it's a nice break from half our comedies and hour long dramas. But more than the storyline we love the fashion! The polar opposite styling of Lemon & Zoey is as different as their personalities.
Be sure to tune in every Monday at 9pm on the CW Network and follow us on Twitter and Facebook to find out which of our designs are worn.