August Findings

Hey loves...

Been a while i have done an inspiration post. i am a jewelry artist and i definitely research to get inspired. this are basically pieces that i would wear and a lot of my customers would definitely want.

Enjoy :)

I really love long necklaces so i will be making a lot of this.

loving +Wamboi Kay long necklace :)

Anklet

 The other place i would want to live is near an ocean for the cowrie shells and other beading stuff but i just can't manage the sun :(

cowrie shells

seed beads

...and the seed bead addiction continues :)

seed bead necklace

Thank you for stopping by

I HOPE YOU GET INSPIRED

:)

XOXO

Ms. Shee

THE BEST FRIEND AFFAIRE

hey...

Meet My best friend, my number one fan.

she is so loyal to Shee Art jewelry that she actually still owns pieces of my first collection (myself i don't) and i love her for that and more.

Today is her Birthday so please wish my love a happy birthday :)

Cc. +Leah Wangari

 

Rocking  Shee  art  pieces  in  her  favorite  color,  Purple  (loyalty)

Striking  a  pose ...  :)

Thank you for stopping by

XOXO

Ms. Shee

THROW BACK THURSDAY

Morning....

So i have one more exam to tackle and this semester is a wrap and welcome hustle mode again :) i promise you i love to hustle, i am that girl that will get dirty (hands dirty) and most times even if it doesn't pay well, if its fun i am hands on.

Took this pictures last year with my best friend ( as usual) outside our hostel in campus.

BOW TIE RING

BOW TIE HEAD BAND

WOODEN BANGLE

Thank you for stopping by

:)

HAPPY THURSDAY

XOXO

Ms. Shee

THAT SUPERMARKET EXPERIENCE

Hi,

So i read this and enjoyed...

hope you like it as much :)


I get mad every time I go to a supermarket and I'm given sweets as part of my change. I swore sometime back that I'll go shopping with them sweets one day.


So a few minutes ago I felt thirsty and as it happened that I was passing by Ukwala Supermarket next to Afya Centre, Nairobi, I decided to go for bottled water. My thirst was huge so I went for the Quencher 1.5ltrs which goes for 58 bob. The young lady cashier hands me two twenty bob coins (40 shillings) and two sweets as change for the 100 bob I gave her. I tell her "NO, I don't take sweets for change." She tells me, "I don't have coins," and gets ready to call the next person in the queue. I demand my two shillings change, shebstands her ground she has no coins. "Then why put coins in your prices if you don't have them to give change?" I'm now almost shouting.


I don't wish to cause a scene over two bobs so I take the sweets and walk away fuming...not because of some useless two bobs but because of the thievery that goes on in supermarkets, especially Ukwala Supermarkets and other small supermarkets, with the cheap 10 cents sweets they give away in place of shillings. I swear to teach them
a lesson--not tomorrow, now!


I walk to the left-luggage counter located just at the entrance/exit, leave the water, and walk back into the self-service store. I remember just in time that I actually need toothpaste. So I go and voila! there's a Colgate that is going for 53 shillings. I pick that and walk to the cashiers, making sure to go to the same one who gave me sweets. She punches the Colgate into her cash register and I hand to her 51 shillings and the two sweets. She looks at me and asks "what's this for?" referring to the two sweets. "You gave me those, remember me? Since you guys seem to have made sweets a currency, I can as well pay with them!" With the most serious expression she could muster, the girl who doesn't look so young now, tells me: "we don't take sweets from outside."


The shop manager who just happened to be passing by heard the exchange and stopped to find out what was happening. "This girl gave me sweets as change a few minutes ago in spite of my protests that I don't chew sweets. I went back to the shop and took this toothpaste and added the sweets to the money that I have but she will not take the sweets saying ati they are from outside. If you can give sweets as change, and therefore a form of currency, why won't you accept them as such?"


The manager just smiled, perhaps concluding I'm either a nutcase or a smart-alek, said to the cashier "It's ok chukua (take) ," gave me my toothpaste and I left. The people in the queue almost cheered.

from facebook user : Charles Lwanga

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MY (USHANGA)' ED LIFE

hae loves...


so if you ever read my blog you know i am currently in Narok County and i am so in love with the community here. My mum thinks i will get engaged to a man of this beautiful people, i don't even mind :)

anyway...


i decided to feature some pieces associated with the community from my favorite vendor who chose to remain out of all the pictures i got to take...

Commonly referred to as Maasai Jewelry or ''ushanga pieces''

Ushanga is Swahili name for beads.

My favorite bangle...

NECKPIECE

NECKLACES

The Maasai just like any other culture have jewelry for specific duties or to symbolize a stage, like there are pieces only worn by married women, elders and an engaged girl, i am hoping to learn more about this and hopefully blog about it soon.

SHOES, MALE BELTS AND MORE NECK PIECES

HEAD BAND

My friend (longer hair) and me rocking a Maasai piece at the Bow tie Events (the elegance affair) last year.

thank you for stopping by :)

XOXO

Ms. Shee