Ampersand's new fall collection has arrived!

Little Cupcake Earrings - $15.00
We've just released our Fall Collection and are extremely proud to announce the "Angelic Violence" and "Curiouser and Curiouser" lines now available at www.ampersanddesigns.com - our newly rehauled website.
Alice's Tea Party Couture Bracelet - $45.00
The "Curiouser and Curiouser" line incorporates all aspects from "Alice in Wonderland" in jewelry ranging from simple earrings (all $15) to couture bracelets (ranging in price from $35-45) and necklaces (ranging in price from $25-75). Tea Parties, We're all mad here and of course the Dodo all make an appearance :)
Tenth Circle Long Couture Chain - $38.00
The "Angelic Violence" line is for any girl who's balancing that fine line between good and evil. This line begs to ask the question "Are you heaven sent?" and is apparent in every piece of jewelry featuring both pistols, grenades, and handcuff charms to angels, wings and doves. You decide :)
In addition to our new lines, the Rockstar and Princess line is now on sale for 25% off the original price. Just click on "Sale" in our store to view all of the remaining pieces (sale ends July 28th).

We were also featured in the designer spotlight on MyShoppingConnection. Click on the image above to read the interview!

Aaaaaaaaaaand finally, Thriving Ink (located at 55 W. Angela Street #105. Pleasanton, CA) will be throwing us a trunk party on July 27th from 7-9 p.m. so if you're in the area please stop by for some awesome shopping, great music and refreshments.

Go check out the new collection on ampersanddesigns.com and become a fan of Ampersand Designs on Facebook (www.facebook.com/ampersanddesigns). Happy Shopping!

Meeeemorieeees...

I was digging through our files and came across a set of pictures from our first foray into creating our charms. Oh it seems so long ago...

The eve of our Ampersand Design's Fall 09 Collection

Sailor Star Earrings from the Fall 09 Ampersand Originals Line ($15)


Alice's Tea Party Couture Bracelet from the Fall 09 Curiouser & Curiouser Line ($45)


Violent Candy Couture Bracelet from the Fall 09 Angelic Violence Line ($45)

Michelle has been photoshopping all day, I've been posting pics to various social websites and updating our Facebook page. And through all of this we've been looking at our jewelry images that took three months to create. We're both REALLY proud of the "Curiouser & Curiouser" and "Angelic Violence" lines and we hope that you love it like we do. New Ampersand Originals will also be added over the course of the next few weeks. We'll be adding a piece from all three lines per day for the next 20 days so you'll have to keep checking in to see the new stuff!

As an added bonus we've also put our previous collections, "Rockstar" and "Princess" on sale for 25% off through the end of July. After this month they'll disappear forever so get Ampersand's Summer Collection while you still can! Visit www.ampersanddesigns.com to see our new collection.

And now onto ideas for the new collection ;)

Simply Stacie - Publicity

Stacie was kind enough to do a review for us on our "Fairest Of Them All" Signature Necklace (still 2 in stock!!!). Click on the image above to read the review!!!

Back from vacation!

So, I got back from Atlanta last night and Michelle will be home from Mexico tonight. I'm thinking after the past week and a half both of us will be plowing full steam ahead on our new collection (due out July 1st, 2009!!!). As for what's been going on, we were represented quite well at the "16 to Life" movie premiere...

...and were featured on Shopping By Mail's "Our Finds." (click on image to see!)

Thriving Ink, our fabulous style cohorts have also had a big week, teaming up with Design By Humans and is increasing their online prescence. Ampersand Designs will be a part of that to give you, our loyal fans, another outlet to see our jewelry!!! If you're on our mailing list keep an eye out this week for a discount coupon!

Ampersand Goings-on

It's been a little bit of a busy week for Ampersand starting off with the photo shoot we had last weekend. Our fabulous cohort, Jennifer, had organized a shoot for us at Too Short's recording studio in Fremont and we were more than happy to see what our jewelry would look like against a professional background. Even better was getting the photo disc in less than a week - WHOO!!! Michelle's going to manipulate them so we can feature them in our upcoming ad campaign for our July 2009 collection but let us know what you think!!!




In other news, we are now both officially laid off which is really sad but in other ways extremely good for our business. Everyone always ask us how we juggled full-time jobs AND did this as well and we often reply "with great difficulty." So, in addition to our ongoing quest to find a job in California's crappy economy, we're also ramping up our efforts across the board for this upcoming collection. July 1st is our tentative date and be on the look out for new jewelry construction as well as the two "hush hush" themes we'll be working on. More news to come on that soon.

We were also interviewed for the publication MyBusiness Magazine (URL HERE!) on Thursday and felt quite professional on our business call. Once we receive the interview in proper form we'll post it on here for your enjoyment!

Our partnership with Thriving Ink is going splendidly well also and we're hoping that the personalized "Thriving Ink" jewelry we made for them will sell like hotcakes! This has been a great experience for us and we're hoping that all shop owners are as cool as Brenda and Jenelle Dronkers!!!

A coupon will also be sent out to Friends and Family of Ampersand Designs in the next week so if you would like to be added to the mailing list, please email us at info@ampersanddesigns.com

Oligoville Giveaway!

So I'm doing a bit of dual-posting right now seeing as I'm writing music stuff for Oligoville but also having them give away our "Rock & Roll Signature Bracelet." Even though it's a fairly new webzine it's jam-packed with great articles about music and fashion. CLICK HERE to be entered!