week 23 - botox show!

this post comes to you on tuesday morning, as i suppose most posts do by the time you see them after our busy monday night production sessions. last night we were knee deep in creating pieces to fit into the inventory of a few new boutiques that sherry will be visiting this week. we love setting a style and design goal for ourselves, to make sure we get as creative as possible with the beads, stones, and trinkets that we think will be a sensation for a new group of mesh fashionistas.

speaking of mesh fashionistas, tonight is our long awaited botox show! salon rhapsody in frankfort, il and owner heather fox will be hosting a botox party and has invited mesh to join in on the excitement. while both sherry and i are afraid of the botox injection process, let alone the word botox, we thought this would be the perfect way to spend a mesh tuesday with the our friends in frankfort!

please come out to see what this party is all about. we will be one of two vendors showcased at this event, and there are all kinds of perks for those of you who can make it! check out salon rhapsody's facebook page for all of the event details!

-melissa

on the table kelly's bag of spectacularness! thank you kelly!!!

week 22 - end of summer flea market finds

it happens every summer. august comes…and then goes way too fast. wait, summer is over? why did it go so fast? well, it happened this year again to me. even though we did tons of fun outings and events, there were still many things that we didn’t cross off our list.

flea markets. that is always on my list. although they are 'hit and miss,’ i love them. It’s the adventure of the hunt for the perfect piece of furniture or mesh trinket. this past saturday my husband and I went to the highwood street market on the north shore.

it was great. we even had a coupon to ensure a reasonable $2 entry fee. this offset my $4 hot dog. the festival was in a beautiful park area…so plenty of trees for shade on a hot day. it was just the right size also, only taking a few hours to see all the vendors.

one booth particularly held my attention. (no, not the one where the vendor’s dog was apparently biting other dogs). this woman had buckets and buckets of trinkets…watch parts, game pieces, old door hardware, vintage earrings….all things mesh! I was able to find some really neat hardware pieces and metal trinkets that you will soon see on our fall collection.

i’m convinced that these types of festivals and finds we discover at them make mesh the unique product that it is.

-sherry

on the table | acceptance letter to the oak park art fair on november 7th!!!

week 21 - monday night home | show

tonight was an extraordinary mesh monday night, as we were surrounded by an home full of mesh-worthy models.

we were invited to transform kathy's sky-high place downtown into a full-on boutique for the evening...and the event was a pure success! as always, kathy and kelly put together a wonderful evening of food, friends, skyline views, and mesh :) thanks so much to both of you for your wonderful hospitality and your sensational taste in necklaces and people!

it was so much fun to watch as the accessories added up on everyones' ensembles throughout the evening. we love when someone spots a piece they have to have as soon as they walk in the door. it is amazing to watch the process we all go through when debating on what we can rationalize adding to our wardrobe. there is no doubt that everyone needs a new bauble for an average tuesday at work...so why not start the week out right with a monday night homeshow?!?!

THANK YOU LADIES!!!
-mesh

week 20 - it was a bird

carrie: "he couldn’t get out of the car…i got out of the car, i put a bird on my head."

miranda: "is that what that was? i thought it was feathers."

carrie: "it was a bird"

those lines are my favorite part of sex and the city 1. maybe because carrie was simply brave enough to pull off the styles we simply don't dare to attempt. teal birds and feathers on your wedding day? pretty brave move, i'd say. but i love it!

it could simply be my long standing obsession with birds... it started in childhood. both sets of my grandparents were bird watchers and bird figurine collectors…and it has continued on through the generations. many times, we would be summoned to the window to see the newest woodpecker or shushed to hear the cat bird meow in the tree.

this obsession has carried into many areas of my life...bird jewelry, necklaces with feathers, bird vases, dishtowels...even our mesh logo!....

either way, mesh loves this carrie-inspired trend of headbands with feathers for the fall! yes, I said it; mesh has expanded into hair accessories!

what a perfect way to add a little sass to any outfit very inexpensively! wear it with your power suit for the big sales pitch or out on saturday night with the hubby! no rules apply. it's all in the attitude.

check out our wide arrange of headbands at the next mesh show!

-sherry

on the table - feathers galore!

week 19 - gram's gems

the other day i was spending some quality time with gram (my 89 year young grandmother, who happens to be as much of an accessory extraordinaire as i am). as i was playing the role of 'tech services', due to a pesky computer glitch (again, another uncommon commonality between us), gram happened to be rifling through a few small boxes of trinkets she had been collecting for mesh. you see, gram has a lot of collections around the house that she has lived in for 65 years. she happens upon trinkets on a daily basis that she put in a 'safe place' years ago. now, every time she finds these - miscellaneous broaches, clustered clip-on earrings, rhinestone shoe clips, and the like - she collects them all in one place and shares them with me when i visit. we walk through the story behind each piece/pair and she sometimes parts with them, and sometimes decides to hold onto them for safe keeping.

much like gram, we love to tell the story behind each one-of-a-kind necklace we create. whether the beads came from our friend richard in london, or the stones were discovered during sherry's honeymoon in rome, or we tracked down the trinkets in a dark alley 'boutique' of new york city....there is always a story behind every mesh piece.

i have to say that i strive to be like gram...a collector, a woman with a keen eye for quality, a creative soul that just simply 'gets it'. it would also be ideal if i were up for a trip to vegas on my 89th birthday...

-melissa