Friday, January 30, 2009

ALL FASHION & NEW PRESS, now onSUGAR!


All BelleStyle Jewels FASHION, Tips, Styles, Designers we Love, & new Press will be located at
www.bellestyle.onsugar.com from now on!  Check out the Sugar network.  For those of you who LOVE fashion and design, it's the place to be:)  


All the rest of the BelleStyle (family) will still be here so make sure you check back for the latest pictures and love from time to time:)


Wednesday, January 28, 2009

By Far...

The coolest Hollywood sign picture out there.
copyright: Clarissa Hoff 2009

Sun by Clar

Sun by Clar...


Johnny Ramone's tomb @ Hollywood Forever

"Aunt Clear"


A current







Monday, January 26, 2009

No Light. No Life.

The older I get, the more often I realize that the smallest things that use to make me so happy have disappeared and are replaced by big worries.  Looking at something so common as stairs reminds me of this.  Little children love to play on stairs, the up and down is so much fun.  The sense of accomplishment when having had reached the top is great for my 18 month old.  And she climbs down again to start over.  The stairs are like the cycle of life.  There is a top and there is a bottom and our whole lives we are either going up or going down.  It is those rare occasions that we are at the top and realize and appreciate it.  Same is true for the bottom.  You have to hit the bottom before you can go up again. And again And again...
 

The simplest things are TRUE: I LOVE YOU.

Follow the light in your life.  

I saw a quote today it went: "No Light. No Life. " 
It was a great reminder that everything needs Light to Grow. Mostly us silly humans.  How can you grow when you are always in the dark. When you are surrounded by negativity and gloom.  "Goodness" and "self control" are the Light that powers growth.  What are yours?   

Some Sugar...




I recently had the opportunity to meet an amazing woman, Jessica "Sugar" Kiper.   You might have seen her on "Survivor" GABON (CBS).  She was cool enough to wear some BelleStyle jewels to the LA Confidential Pre-Golden Globes party in Los Angeles (above).  I told her she reminds me of Marylyn Monroe, and she told me she was a Marylyn impersonator when she lived in San Fransisco before she moved to Los Angeles!  I love how she has a very "Old Hollywood" look.   So naturally she liked BelleStyle's vintage incorporated pieces like the "Nugget" earrings which she has on above.  Nugget is a 4" earring with vintage nuggets, gold colored that I found as a necklace in a wonderful antique shoppe in North Hollywood.  It is the kind of place that has piles and piles of antique findings and amazing pieces.  These nuggets work wonderfully with the baroque cut Swarovski TM crystals (Create with Swarovski), and a black onyx gemstone, make these earrings have meaning as well as the "glam" purpose.  Black onyx is said to protect from negative energy, and is the stone of self mastery and self-control.   


Tuesday, January 13, 2009

Saturday Night Magazine...

Princess of Primetime. Emily Van Camp







A sneak peak at BelleStyle's "Rose Crystal" earrings on Emily Van Camp (Brothers & Sisters) for the February 2009 edition of Saturday Night Magazine.  Also featuring our new "Carpe Diem" head-chain on Emily in the beautiful laying down pose (1st picture).  Be sure to check out this awesome "Twenty Something" magazine with great articles on the top Grad school programs in the nation, as well as much needed current Spring Break guide, politics, and cute Valentine's day ideas for your honey.  

Photography: Bobby Quillard (www.quillardinc.com)
Styling: April Steiner for Exclusive Artists Management
Hair and Makeup: Jenna Kellar
Location: The Kress, Hollywood