Elva Fields Blog
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Introducing...
What?
Our limited-edition, handmade earrings will be offered at special (read: unbelievably fantastic) sale prices during flash sales on our site!
When?
We'll host Daily Deals for 24 hours each, typically one per week.
Where?
Come on by our website--the same one you know and love--to enjoy our Daily Deals…www.elvafields.com. (And if you sign up for our special Daily Deals updates, you can find us right in your in-box every time!)
How?
Though you'll find our Daily Deals listed on the site, we'd love to let you know about Elva Fields Daily Deals as they happen for the best chance at scoring some fun jewels before they sell out, so sign up for our Daily Deals newsletter. We'll send you an update before each sale begins, generally once a week.
Who?
You! We cordially invite you to join our e-mail list so you'll be in-the-know about these fun flash sales!
Anything else?
Yes, so glad you asked! We've saved the best for last…as of today, we're thrilled to offer…
FREE STANDARD SHIPPING ON ALL ORDERS!
(Yay! Every order, every time, will automatically receive free standard shipping on our website. Including our standard gift packaging, too! How great is that? Expedited and Overnight Shipping upgrades available at additional costs.)
Hope to see you shopping soon…our first sale starts today!
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Friends and Family: The Photographer Series
Royce in one of her favorite Elva Fields necklaces.
In the spotlight this week for our fun, new series on a few of our favorite gals (and guys...eventually) behind the lens is one of our dearest customers (and now friends) Royce Winnick. Camera in hand, Royce captures the most unique and priceless expressions and moments of children and families in the New York City area--customizing each shoot to the subject's personality and preferences. Be it a local park, home, or another special spot, she photographs in their environment--and her work truly shows how fun, happy, and meaningful those people and places are. Soon to be a mama herself, she works with all sorts of children--from newborn itty-bitties to older teens.
And though kiddos are clearly her forte, we persuaded her to make an exception in the name of jewelry, and she enlisted the help of a beautiful friend to model a pair of earrings from our Spring Collection. (A note: Though the exact pair of vintage blue glass earrings seen in the pics has sold out--thanks to a very kind feature in Traditional Home magazine--we do have another style available in the same beautiful blue hue...check them out here. Admittedly, these gorgeous shots leave a very tough act to follow...we are tempted to fly to Manhattan just to have Royce help us look this good.)
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Make Mom's Day
Make Mom's day and a difference! Between now and May 3rd, purchase a pair of our vintage love knot earrings (either the small or large size) and 50% of the proceeds will benefit Backpack Buddies of Spencer County Kentucky, an organization established in our rural community that feeds underprivileged children in area schools. By entering code BBMOM at checkout, you'll enjoy a special shipping rate and our signature gift packaging, complete with a note about the donation and a fun pink ribbon bow.
These simple, tasteful, and elegant vintage brass knots show a gilt finish and suspend from 14 karat gold fill wires--in both a 9mm and 16mm size--and limited quantities of each are available. ($30 including shipping for small, $40 for large with our special BBMOM code at checkout.)
Give the gift of style on Mother's Day and help feed another mother's child at the same time. These children largely depend on the school system for their meals, and Backpack Buddies is designed to provide students with healthy food and snacks during each weekend of the academic year. Backpack Buddies can assemble an entire "backpack" full of food for each student for less than $3, and Elva Fields ordinarily donates that amount of each online jewelry purchase to the food program's efforts. The purchase of a pair of love knot earrings would offer five times that donation, making an incredible difference in the lives of kids in need. What a wonderful way to honor the mother in your life! We hope you'll help us to help others...happy shopping and happy Mother's Day!
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Elva Fields: Friends and Family
{Photo of Erin in Elva Fields jewelry courtesy of April Saas}
Next up in our star-studded lineup of features in our Friends and Family series is sister-in-law Erin Maynard. Because she's a woman who gets right to the point (with equal parts sarcasm and humor) we will, too. Here are 10 QUESTIONS FOR ERIN MAYNARD...you'll love her as much as we do by the end of the interview.
Emily: So I love to tell people that my sister-in-law is a surgeon--especially because there are so few female surgeons in the field in which you are interested. (Erin is currently in her final year of surgical residency at Maine Medical Center in Portland) What do you love about transplant surgery?
Erin: Funny. I love to tell people that my sister-in-law is a jewlery designer and the other is an interior designer. It makes my job feel so mundane at times.Emily: I also love to tell people that you live in Maine. People who have been before always have the most wonderful things to say about it. What is your favorite thing about being a Maine Maynard?
Erin: It's just as the slogan says: "It's the way life should be." I've also never met a more down-to-earth bunch of people. What a wonderful place to live.
{photo top: rocky Maine coast by Erin Maynard}{photo below: view from Erin's apartment by Emily Maynard}
Emily: After a long day in the OR, what do you do to relax and unwind? (You are not allowed to say "triathlons, cross-country bike rides, or open-water swims" although I know these to be true.) (Yes, readers, she is a badass. She just returned from a "vacation" hiking the rocky coast of Majorca for a week. See her pictures below...we're ready to tag along next time.)
{all photos by Erin Maynard}
Erin: Besides reading an embarrassingly bad novel? I did yoga tonight. That was anything but relaxing. I think I'm already sore. Most nights, the most relaxing thing is putting on some music and making dinner.
Emily: Speaking of cooking...what is your favorite dish to prepare for house guests?
Erin: Lobster. Silly question. I don't eat it unless there are guests here but it's always nice to make people wear bibs. I try to save my culinary experiments for myself. I'm always afraid to try something new for guests.
{photo by Erin Maynard}
Emily: What is your favorite restaurant in Portland (Bon Appetit's "Foodiest City" in 2010, right?)
Erin: Louisville came in a close third if I remember correctly. There isn't a bad joint in town. What a great place. Hard to pick a favorite.
Emily: Your style is low-key and casual, but you still love some Elva Fields in your life...is this because you feel you have no other choice when it comes to accessorizing? (Because you have no other choice.)
Erin: It's very kind of you to say "low-key casual." That's a kind way of saying I have no sense of style whatsoever. I wear pajamas to work every day. The only high heels I own are those I've worn in weddings. And the only hint of color I wear was from a wedding I was in. (I still love my fuchsia pashmina. It's a signature.) HOWEVER I LOVE ME SOME ELVA FIELDS. There has not been a time I have worn a necklace without recieving multiple compliments. It takes my uniform black dress slacks and black shirt to an entirely different level. By just adding a necklace it can make my office outfit look more professional. I feel more confident at interviews, and it also spices up an outfit for the evening.
Emily: Wait...are you allowed to wear jewelry in the OR?
Erin: Where did my earring go? Just kidding.
Emily: You're headed to St. Louis this summer for your upcoming Fellowship...what will you miss most about Maine?
Erin: Summers in Maine are my favorite time. The number one thing I'll miss I think are Sunday morning swims in the ocean.
{photo of Maine summer blooms by Emily Maynard}
Emily: What are you looking forward to in St. Louis? (Don't feel like you have to say "the proximity to Kentucky!")
Erin: An apartment with a dishwasher and washer and dryer. Oh, and yes, being close to family.
Emily: Anything you'd like for me to pass along to your nieces?
Erin: I love each and everyone of them. So young yet so AWESOME!. Each of them are already so unique. I'm excited to watch them grow up and hopefully be part of their lives. Work hard, have fun along the way, and always believe in yourself.
{photo of Erin with niece Viva by Emily Maynard}
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Friends and Family: The Photographer Series
So we kicked off our Elva Fields: Friends and Family project earlier this year (more posts to come on that front soon) and we're now starting a spin-off series about which we're super excited. Friends and Family: The Photographer Series enlists the help (and amazing talents) of a few of our friends and family members. The plan? Armed with a pair of earrings from our June collection (their choice) and a camera, we asked them to capture the jewels in a setting or situation of their choosing--portrait, landscape, style subject--and let us brag about how beautiful their work is. Hope you enjoy the results as much as we did...starting with our friend Jill Hardy below!
Jill and I became fast friends in 2nd grade when we both moved to Kentucky, and we spent many a weekend engulfed in the latest craft project/fiasco/brainstorm we concocted. (One such creation that immediately comes to mind involved 20-some-odd emptied perfume sample bottles refilled with custom-colored liquids and suspended from wired mobiles.) Clearly neither of us strayed far from the art we loved in elementary school: Jill became a photographer, I still work with wire.
photo by Lois Bielefeld
Nowadays (well, on the days she isn't cooking something wildly exotic or enriching her newfound carpentry skills as she works on her and her husband's mid-century home) Jill is an official museum educator at the Frye Art Museum in Seattle, after studying Art History and Photography at the Rochester Institute of Technology and Museology at the University of Washington. Her photography--wedding, maternity, and product--is dedicated to capturing the decisive moment, and we couldn't wait to see the moment(s) Jill captured with our African brass hoop earrings (available in May with our Summer 2011 Collection.) Decisive and entirely gorgeous, we think. Many thanks to Jill for her friendship and for sharing her beautiful images with us.
