The Buzz at Acailawen Designs

The Acailawen Designs Website Has Gone Carbon Neutral!

As part of our ongoing commitment to operating as an eco-friendly, green designer label, we’ve taken the Acailawen Designs website carbon neutral! You will now see “green website” verification buttons on pages across the website. The CO2 emissions produced by the operation of this website are now being monitored with the help of a great [...]

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The Acailawen Designs Website Has Gone Carbon Neutral!

What Being a Green Designer Label Means at Acailawen Designs

You probably already know that Acailawen Designs is an eco-friendly label. What you may not know is the steps that we take to operate as a green business. Working in a traditionally “dirty” industry produces many unique opportunities to reduce carbon emissions, cut waste and make positive changes for a cleaner, more sustainable future. Being [...]

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What Being a Green Designer Label Means at Acailawen Designs

Access The Buzz through your Facebook bookmarks!

As of today, you can access The Buzz directly from Facebook through our new Facebook application, in one of two easy ways. First, you can access this section of the website by visiting The Buzz at Acailawen Designs application page on Facebook. If you like the Facebook integration that we’ve added to The Buzz, be sure [...]

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Access The Buzz through your Facebook bookmarks!

View Acailawen Designs’ Facebook Wall Posts Right Here in The Buzz [Updated]

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View Acailawen Designs’ Facebook Wall Posts Right Here in The Buzz [Updated]

Acailawen Designs Green Couture Jewelry Page on Facebook Feed

View wall posts from the Acailawen Designs Green Couture Jewelry page on Facebook any time by simply visiting this post. To add the wall posts to your feed while on Facebook, and gain access to exclusive content not published to our feed, just click “Like” in the Facebook Social Plugin box below, immediately under the [...]

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Acailawen Designs Green Couture Jewelry Page on Facebook Feed

Acailawen Designs (General News) Page on Facebook Feed

View wall posts from the Acailawen Designs page on Facebook (our general news page) any time by simply visiting this post. To add the wall posts to your feed while on Facebook, and gain access to exclusive content not published to our feed, just click “Like” in the Facebook Social Plugin box below, immediately under [...]

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Acailawen Designs (General News) Page on Facebook Feed

Facebook Connectivity Added to The Buzz at Acailawen Designs

Earlier this month, I brought wall posts from the Acailawen Designs page on Facebook to The Buzz section of the site through the Facebook Social Plugin. I also added the application to our Facebook page. No those who follow Acailawen Designs on Facebook can view blog posts from The Buzz in a tab on [...]

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Facebook Connectivity Added to The Buzz at Acailawen Designs

Acailawen Designs Ranked Top Site for “Green Couture Jewelry”

The Acailawen Designs’ website (www.acailawendesigns.com) is now officially the top ranked website for “green couture jewelry” on Google, Yahoo & Bing! The site is also ranked seventh for the broader search term “green couture” on both Google and Yahoo, while holding the 10th place position on Bing. Both rankings place Acailawen Designs on the first page [...]

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Acailawen Designs Ranked Top Site for “Green Couture Jewelry”

1st Sneak Peek Album Added on Facebook

[Updated: July 4, 2010 - Redirected link to album on new Green Couture Jewelry page on Facebook] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [...]

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1st Sneak Peek Album Added on Facebook

3D Jewelry Design Considerations

I just finished watching another enlightening video on Matrix 3D (v6.0) Jewelry Design Software by Gemvision. The application is meant to offer a simplified method of designing virtual 3D jewelry “on-screen while generating a detailed color preview image that can be printed or emailed” – a definite plus for designers wishing to provide accurate [...]

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3D Jewelry Design Considerations

Green Couture Jewelry Collections for 2010 and Beyond

I’m currently working on developing a design concept for a series of inter-related green couture collections for release in 2010 and beyond. The new collections will intertwine with the Earthly Desires collection, which launched in Autumn 2009. Collectively, these “Elementals Collections” merge mythology and fantasy into elementally-inspired designs that are non-seasonally dependent. The launch dates [...]

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Green Couture Jewelry Collections for 2010 and Beyond

Ning Fashion & Jewelry Networks

I regularly network with other designers, stylists, photographers and creatives in the fashion and jewelry industries, both online and off. A friend recommended that I look into the various networking communities on Ning, with which I was unfamiliar. In August, I joined Ning and began researching the networks available for designers to network professionally. [...]

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Ning Fashion & Jewelry Networks

New Green Design Studio Plans On Hold

While working through the initial stages of building a new green design studio, we were met with an unexpected opportunity – to move back to a neighborhood that we absolutely adore and sorely missed. The downside is, we’ve moved into a smaller place and I am now left without studio work space. Sometimes unforeseen opportunities [...]

The Green Guide: Sustainable Business

The Green Jewelry Design Resource Guide [The Green Guide]: A Resource Guide for Designers & Consumers by Andrea Acailawen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [...]

The Green Guide: Environmentally Responsible Packaging and Shipping Decisions

The Green Guide: Green Marketing for Environmentally Friendly Artisans

The Green Guide: Fair Trade Materials in Jewelry Design

The Green Jewelry Design Resource Guide [The Green Guide]

Acailawen Designs Website Goes ‘Green’

I was recently contacted by a ‘green’ art gallery interested in my work. When the gallery manager asked me if any of my jewelry was eco-friendly, I was more than a little surprised. As a jewelry designer that is very conscious of being environmentally responsible and lives a green lifestyle, I have always been dedicated [...]

Woodland Symphony Necklace Set from Acailawen Designs

The Woodland Symphony necklace is the second creation in Acailawen Designs’ Earthly Desires collection; a green couture jewelry collection of earth-inspired designs that delight the senses and nourish the soul. The set features green aventurine, dark green bloodstone, gold vermeil & Czech glass leaves, as well as gold-filled ear wires. More original designs will be added [...]