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Our Blog is Back
Dec 21st
Sorry for the delay – but with the store coming back on it took a little bit longer to bring our blog over.
Happy Holidays Everyone!!
In addition – all of our products have FREE SHIPPING! Drive Safe and eat well!
Site Admin ~JJ
Renegade Craft Fair
Jul 10th
This weekend (July 10th & 11th) Jimbob and I will be selling our Outrageously Original Matchbox Pendants at the Renegade Craft Fair Downtown sharing a booth with Rebe (www.myrebe.com). We have over 50 designs of random object necklaces and come packaged in handmade matchboxes that have quirky sayings on them, like a plunger that says, “taking the plunge” (for someone getting married), or a light switch that says “a major turn on” (for someone who is, you know, a major turn on. ) They make perfect gifts. $30-$40. With discounts if you buy more than one.
Renegade Craft fair is an indoor craft fair with over 200 artists traveling from all over the country and abroad to participate and sell their handmade goods. From clothing and accessories, to stationary and concert posters, with everything from bath products and ceramics in between – there’s surely something for everyone!
Come support artists and be prepared to say “that’s soooo cute” a thousand times.
11am – 7pm Saturday and Sunday
California Market Center
110 East 9th Street,13th floor penthouse, Los Angeles, CA 90079
Corner of Main Street and Los Angeles.
Bring your parking ticket for validation $10 all day.
My lovely Jimmy and My Rebe
Apr 24th
I just found this picture of me and Jimmy. Isn’t this just sweet? It was from a photo shoot we did a few months ago for Damsel Magazine. And I think it shows our relationship perfectly. I am always dreaming up these new crazy ideas and getting us into outrageous situations and Jimmy just looks at me (a bit like he is looking in this picture) like he is the butt to one big joke. But look how introspective he is. Such quiet confidence. I wish life could stay this fresh and innocent. And while our life is still just like this picture, I already feel like I am looking at a memory.
I’m wiping the tears off of the keyboard. . . .okay.
Been crazy busy over here at the J+J sweatshop. (it’s full out summer in North Hollywood . . .already!)
We are going to be in a bunch of shows coming up with my friend Debby Weiss who owns Rebe. (www.myrebe.com) She makes these adorable dresses like this one and bags that are an insane mix-match of fabrics and colors. And I was actually a huge fan of hers before we met at the Focus Show. I cried when I met her. I thought for sure she would think I was a lunatic but, thankfully she saw through my emotional outbursts (i cried twice . . . sheesh!) and now we are friends. And J+J’s new pendant line (which is totally secret right now. . . even from you the one person who reads this blog, which is probably me in which case it isn’t secret at all . . .funny how that happens) is perfect with her line too because all of her stuff is quirky and whimsical and sweet.
Ya’ll should definately go check out her site. ( I will. . . thanks).
I am going to be selling Rebe stuff and some of my brand new pendants at the Unique Los Angeles Show www.uniquelosangeles.com next weekend
The show is May 2 & 3 2009 at the California Market Center Downtown. It is a fun shopping event with all handmade Los Angeles designers.
And then a bunch of other shows throughout the summer that we will, hopefully, get into. I am also selling my spoon paintings. So I gotta get cranking on those in the next 2 weeks.
Anyhow gotta run. I’m now switching jobs to PR and I will spend the next 3 hrs pitching articles and press releases that will go nowhere . . .or somewhere . . .yeah they do something. . . I’m not wasting my youth on the computer. . . I should at least get a rosetta stone and learn italian while I do it. . . .ohhh Italy.
Ciao.
Jenny
What we did for Easter
Apr 13th
Easter was a two day event here at Jenny and Jimbob. It started on Saturday night when we did Ukranian Egg Dying. A cool process where you draw on an egg with wax and use vinegar dyes in multiple processes to make intricate designs. 
You have to think backwards and think about what order you put the dyes on.
This is our friend Anne Marie’s goose egg. (She’s an art teacher. . .so this egg is quite a masterpiece.) First you draw in pencil and then you use this pen that has a cup in the top that holds wax to draw over the pencil. You use a candle to keep the wax liquid enough to draw with. . .(that takes major skill.) And then dye everything you want yellow first. And then use the wax to cover everything you want to keep yellow before dunking it into another co
lor.
Here is the final stage for this egg
And here is all of our eggs that we did. Mine is the one in front that looks like a rock with feathers. And of course Jimbob did 3 in the time it took everyone else to do one. (he also did the skull one in the back . . .it’s outrageous!)
Sorry about the photo. . . I guess it doesn’t fit straight. I am still learning how to do this.
Yesterday (Easter) we had a fabulous picnic in the park. It was a bring food that is your favorite color potluck. Joy made amazing prociutto wrapped dates stuffed with goat cheese and delicious meat balls. I made roasted beat and carrot salad with blood orange dressing, and lamb with roasted turnips, parsnips, carrots and potatoes. We also had home made guacamole and cherry pie and a lemon roll thing for dessert. We tried to fly a fish kite but it wasn’t windy enough. (that perfect LA weather!) Then we went back to watch Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory projected on the side of our house. Thanks to everyone who made this such a Perfect Easter!!
Now I have two days to get my taxes together. I have to do my Actor business and the Jewelry business. Jimbob swears he will help me with the jewelry taxes but he is in the shop getting everything ready for our summer recession jewelry line. Crap! I vowed never to use the “Re. . . ” word, but there I went and done it! I guess now that the economy is looking up I don’t mind as much.
Off to Tax Land.
Happy Monday!
Jenny
It’s Trade Show Time Again!!!
Mar 10th
We are so excited! We had so much fun doing Focus in January. It was our first trade show. And, as newbies, we were so nervous. Like, for instance, I made copies of our tri-fold brochure and didn’t notice that the pictures were low resolution so we got 1,000 blurry pictures of our jewelry. Fun! We had never set up a trade show booth before so we had all of this useless stuff and got into huge arguments over how to decorate it. Fun! We got 2 hours of sleep on the first day because we didn’t have line sheets made (because all of the jewelry wasn’t made yet.) Did I say Fun?! Way Fun!!
But seriously, those were all of the perfect mistakes and experiences for a first time trade show duo and we wouldn’t trade them for anything. . .except maybe the $700 for the blurry brochures. . . that really sucked. But during the trade show itself we got to meet so many people who are doing the exact same thing we are doing. Some were also new, but most had done this for many years and now make their living going from show to show. It was really inspiring for us because Jimbob and I love to show off. . . our jewelry, our personalities, and our fabulous style. So doing trade shows is way up our alley.
This show is going to be unlike our last show. Firstly, our merchandise was mainly manly. As in it was men’s jewelry . . .a very interesting idea for a ladiez fashion trade show. And we out priced everyone by millions of dollars. So this time we are bringing only women’s jewelry. And we are leaving the really amazing stuff at home (actually everything is in stores . . .so we will be leaving it there.) And we will be bringing a simpler more affordable line of women’s jewelry. But we will still probably out price a lot of the other jewelry lines there because our stuff is made HERE IN THE USA . . .LOS ANGELES TO BE EXACT. And everyone else’s is made “over seas”. I have nothing against that because everyone does it. And if you intend to compete in a market where people make the same exact thing that you do and can do it for $3 then you had better find a way to get it made for $2.50 to be able to compete. We at Jenny & Jimbob choose to avoid that entire scenario by making TOTALLY AWESOME THINGS THAT NO ONE ELSE CAN OR EVER WILL MAKE. So it doesn’t matter where we make it. But we choose make it here in LA because we live here and it would be impossible to make it anywhere where we don’t live because WE MAKE IT OURSELVES.
That said. . . this show is going to be amazing. And I can’t wait to show off everything we have been making these last 3 months.
You gotta see it!!
We are off to downtown to buy black diamonds. . .
Sweet!!
Jenny & Jimbob the Beginning
Mar 9th
Jenny and Jimbob met at a Thanksgiving Party in 2004 where, while dancing to Abba, she grabbed his nose to measure it with her forefinger and thumb. Looking cross-eyed at her, having one eye on the fingers molesting his nose and the other eye on her (Jimbob is brilliant at multi-tasking), he said, “You are the strangest person I’ve ever met.” And she said, “So are you,” as she shoved deep fried turkey into his mouth. And thus began what is now referred to as Jenny and Jimbob. And their jewelry line has lived up to this ever so bizarre beginning.
Jenny and Jimbob Jewelry is at once whimsical and mean. It’s wearers are bold and outspoken, the dreamers, the rule breakers and trend makers. They have mischief in their eyes and a mess on their hands. Jenny and Jimbob Jewelry is a kaleidoscope of color on the spokes of a Harley.
And better yet. It is all made right here in Los Angeles, California. 
Jenny and Jimbob believe that every moment is a party. Every dream is a possibility. And every expression is the joy of living dangerously.
Jenny and Jimbob Jewelry will be featured at the Focus Tradeshow March 21-23. California Market Center. Los Angeles.
www.jennyandjimbob.com
Hey!! Spoons!!
Mar 4th
Wall of Spoons
Sooo. Spoons! I paint spoons. Everyone asks me, “Why spoons?” And I really have no answer. I can look at the psychological metaphors for spoons like, “born with a silver spoon in your mouth,” or “feed your soul,” or even “spooning” (which I do happen to enjoy). But the real answer is that I wanted to paint people but they were too difficult so I figured I would start with a spoon because it is basically a person . . . without arms or legs. And after painting my first spoon, I thought, “I can do better that that.” So I pulled out the next canvas and tried again. And that is what I have been doing for the last 5 years.
The funniest thing about painting spoons is that I used to sell them at Farmer’s Markets in Hollywood and people would stop by and look at the paintings and say “spoons” and then just walk away. Like they couldn’t wrap their heads around why someone would devote their life to painting a single object. Especially one as insignificate as a spoon. Actually, I have wondered the same exact thing. All I can say to that person and to myself is that doing something over and over again, never giving up, no matter how simple and ordinary that thing is, and doing that thing with all of your being, that thing will eventually become something.
So with that, I’m off. . . to paint and make other ridiculously outrageous things.
Geodes and a New Store!
Feb 24th
We just got our first shippment of whole intact Keokuk Geodes. We normally buy geodes from a store that I will not mention that is located on Melrose and sells a bunch of beautiful natural stones and shells and leaves and then covers them with AWFUL gold plating. I have felt that it is my Godly mission to save all of the precious stones and minerals from this stores gawdy hand but the owner doesn’t like selling me the raw materials without the gold plating. So I have had to plan my visits when the owner isn’t there and convince the employee to sell me the geodes. And then I leave the store feeling sneaky and dishonest, but with a small bag full of geodes. But now, no longer!! We will be cracking our own geodes!! And I bought the entire bag for what that store charged me for 1!! I have a feeling that they won’t be as beautiful as the ones I purchased from the store, they were so cute with pinks and blues, these look all grey. But I guess we will soonly find out what is hiding inside of these little earth eggs after we crack ‘em. I’ll let you know.
AND for totally HOT news. . . Jane Doe John Doe now carries Jenny and Jimbob Jewelry! They have our mixed metal jewelry line along with some of the sassy pendants and belt buckles. The store carries clothing lines from the finalists of Project Runway and is owned by Jerell Scott (who was our favorite designer from the show). The whole store is filled with clothes that you will only find there. Most of it is one of a kind. If you are looking for interesting Jackets, cocktail dresses, hats, and Jewelry, this is for sure the place to go.
mixed metal ring
http://www.janedoejohndoeboutique.blogspot.com/
JANE DOE JOHN DOE BOUTIQUE
8473 West 3rd Street Los Angeles, Ca 90048
SORUM NOCE
Feb 13th
We have found our first home to display the fine items we have created. There is a beautiful retail shop on Melrose called Sorum Noce. It sits across the street from the Urth Cafe, black sign, fancy window. Soren Noce holds high end clothing, shoes and limited edition jewelry, including our very own line of men’s rings. The store plans to have a reception of sorts to initiate the new lines of creation. We will keep you posted.
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Sep 30th
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