When did this happen?! You guys are so amazing, I have 1,022 now, but I took this screenshot yesterday. Thank you thank you thank you! :)

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So, I didn’t get my booth at Warped this year for JJ solely based on the fact that I’m an idiot and e-mailed Warped way too late. Basically, I was just in Charlotte for three days with my good friend, Mary (Follow her @MariaEdwardo). We met up with our friends: Aly A., Grace, Lance. Oh, and Mrs. Avina of course! We all went out for Mrs. Avina’s birthday at Dave & Buster’s and gamed it up in the arcade room. Favorite game: SUPER TRIVIA! It’s also the Jurassic Park game, always will be, but that one doesn’t give you tickets.



So, after a night of gaming, me and Mary went back to her brother’s apartment where I sat and worked on more necklaces to advertise and give out at Warped the next day. We both ended up going to sleep at like 2:30am and I set my alarm for about 7:15am so I could finish working on everything. We left and got to the venue at around 9:30am.



So, if you’ve ever been to Warped, or any other show for that matter, people are always going to come up to you and try to convince you to buy their CDs and EPs and what have you. This fellow above, Brett from Uh Oh! Explosion, comes up to us and has us listen to his CD, we do, and we like what we hear. And of course, I tell him about JJ and about sponsoring bands, then he offered to give me the CD since I’m bout to sponsor them and all! Super nice guy, too. He’s wearing the mustache necklace above.



Me and Brett reppin’ JJ.

Then, Johnny from Uh Oh! Explosion came up to us telling us that Brett had told him about the jewelry and wanted to thank me. He really liked the dream catcher necklace and this is how the conversation went:

Me: Here, now we match!
Johnny: It’s like we’re boyfriend and girlfriend!
Me: Except, I kind of already have a boyfriend.
Johnny: Yeah, well I kind of already have a fiance.

Haaahahahaha. It was just really funny at the moment, he also told me “You have really nice lips.” Sorry if I make you feel awkward, Johnny. It was just the quote of the day.

Me and Mary decided to go straight to Jac Vanek’s tent. Last year, I really wanted to tell her about JJ and give her some necklaces, but I was too scared hahaha. Let me tell you though, I really, really admire Jac and what she does and she’s such an inspiration to me how she started her business off and how she’s been selling on Warped and Bamboozle. It’s all just exactly what I want to do with JJ one day, you know, tour and stuff. So, I had e-mailed Nicole Buckley earlier this year about sending them some necklaces, but I figured it’d be better to give them some things personally from the summer line.



I’m just standing there because I wanted to get a ‘FEARLESS’ bracelet from her, and she’s like “I love your necklace!” and I’m all “Oh thanks! I made it actually!” and she’s all “No way!” So, we go through that whole ‘Yeah I have my own business of handmade jewelry’ shpeel. Jac seriously loved my dream catcher necklace, so I gave her one, Nicole one, and another one of her friends one. When I reminded Nicole that I e-mailed her she was like “Oh yeah your shit’s so cute!” It was cool because we talked for about 10 minutes and she was telling me how it’s hard to get on Warped as a vendor and whatnot and how I just have to e-mail on time and thought it was cool that I started JJ when I was 15 and everything. Oh! And she let me pick out a free bracelet, so that was really, really nice of her. Of course, I got my ‘FEARLESS’ one.



I can honestly say that Jac and Nicole are so incredibly nice! It was a really great way to start off Warped.  Jac was all “Come back later if you’re bored and hang out with us!” But everytime we passed her tent, she wasn’t there. But whatever, that’s okay!



Grace, Mary, and Aly reppin’ JJ at Warped. You know.



You may or may not know this, but you should, my friend Aly has her own musical interview project kind of thing, it’s called Aly’s Underground Rockshow. She interviewed Jac and before the interview she was all “Hey! My friend made that!” and Jac “Aww she’s so cute, I love her!” and Nicole was all “Hey I have one too!” And apparently she talked to Aly’s mom about me and Aly 2 after the interview, I don’t remember what they said though. Bottom line, Jac and Nicole are so nice and down to earth. Check out Aly 2’s interview with Jac on her show linked above!



To the left: flyer mirror pic 2009. To the right: flyer mirror pic 2010. Hahahaha.



I met Tay Jardine of We Are The In Crowd (www.myspace.com/wearetheincrowd), good friend of Love, Robot (www.myspace.com/loverobotli) and gave her a dream catcher necklace as well.



She was really nice and wore it on stage during their set which was great by the way!

Me and Mary won this contest to watch Breathe Carolina from backstage. That was amazing, they’re so good live. Not going to lie, I was really surprised with how good it was. We met David and Kyle afterward and I gave him the Tumblr necklace.



I also met Sierra from Versa Emerge (www.myspace.com/versaemerge). And I basically told her that Jac thought I should give her a dream catcher necklace cause she’d really like it. And she was like “Oh yeah I saw that on Jac!” or “Oh yeah Jac showed me!” I don’t remember what she said, but either way, I thought it was cool hahaha.



We ended the night by handing out flyers at the end of Warped, dinner at Applebee’s, and passing out once we got back to the apartment. The main point of this lengthy post: Warped ‘10 was successful and I WILL have a booth next year. It has to happen.

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For a long and detailed post about Warped Tour, pictures, and a vlog from the trip later on tonight! You can see some pictures from it on www.facebook.com/jawbreakingjewelry, which you should “like” on facebook. More will be posted on the blog tonight! Who’s ready to hear all about it?!

I wish I would have kept up with the show more, so I’m kind of lost but whatevsiez. I love this show and I’m sad it’s ending! I gave Whitney an ‘I Love Bows’ necklace from Jawbreaking Jewelry when I met her outside of the Malandrino fashion show during New York fashion week this past February. Get one like Whitney at www.shopjawbreakingjewelry.com

Who else is watching the Hills finale?!

My stepbrother and stepsister, Jesse and Alexa, are in town, so we’ve all been hanging out and having family outings and such. And I’ve been having more of a social life than ever. So, I’m sorry for not being on this much the past week!



I’m really behind on orders and I have more than 40 to do and send out, so bare with me! I wanna say thank you to anyone who has bought anything from the new summer line, I’m glad you all like it :) I will hopefully be making some new things soon.



I’ll be moving into the bonus room of my house in a couple of weeks. I’m so stoked because I’m splitting the room in half. One side will be my bedroom and the other side will be my work space/office. I went to Goodwill the other day and found this desk, it’s so big! And it’s just perfect, I want it so bad for my new room! But it’s $60, that’s ridiculous, Goodwill. Come on. Whatevsiez, maybe I’ll find another one like it. But hopefully it’s still there if I change my mind about it.

Btw, I’m still waiting on some video entries for the video contest. I’m giving an extension to some people who are having difficulties uploading their videos and stuff, so that means YOU have more time to win $100 to Jawbreaking Jewelry. Click HERE for more info on how to enter and win! :)

I hope everyone’s having a good summer!

Aly Silverio
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June 30, 2008 marked the 2 years of Jawbreaking Jewelry being in business. Let me just say that I would have NEVER even imagined of Jawbreaking becoming as big as it is today, and it’s still growing. I remember first starting out on my bedroom floor, and the first necklace I made was a huge, black Chanel logo. Yep, how scenie weenie of me.



It all started off on my bedroom floor and on this bar stool that I took from my kitchen… As you can see, I didn’t have much space to work with at all.



Now, I’m working in my walk in closet in my newer house. And soon, I’ll be moving into my bonus room and I’ll be splitting it down the middle. One half will be my bedroom and the other half will be my office!

SO much has changed since the summer of 2008! The banners above are so… I don’t even know how to describe it… just obnoxious. Well, they’re obnoxious to me at least. Thinking about it today, I still can’t believe that people bought my stuff when I first started back in summer ‘08! It was all so… ugly and the craftsmanship was terrible. So many people shopped at JJ and just thinking about it makes me think like “Really? How did you people buy this? It was so ugly.” Here are some of the customers who bought JJ back in the day! The first picture is a picture of my first customer, Audrey :)




It’s so weird looking at all the old pictures of my jewelry and all the old customers photos from beginning to end. You guys are amazing! A lot of you guys are such frequent buyers and I love talking to all of you via Twitter on a daily basis! Ha, big thanks to every social networking site that I’m a part of. Without Myspace, Tumblr,  Twitter, Facebook, and Youtube, I don’t even know how I would be able to spread the word. I first started on Myspace 2 years ago. I know have 16,000+ friends on Myspace, and now I’ve moved on to Twitter which is what seems to be the new thing that everyone is using, and I find so many more potential customers on it, and you’re all so fun to talk to! Anyways, back to customers… here are the most recent customer photos that have been sent in:

LEMME GET CHEESY REAL QUICK!! Without you amazing people, Jawbreaking Jewelry wouldn’t be anything it is today. I just want to give a big thank you to ANYONE who has shopped at JJ or let alone supported or spread the word in the littlest way. I really do appreciate it. I hope all of you continue to follow me and my business as it continues to grow!

Love love love,
Aly Silverio

P.S. You still have time to make a video to enter to win $100 to Jawbreaking Jewelry, just click HERE to learn how! Enter NOW!

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1,000 Twitter followers. It’s nearly impossible to get 389 followers by tonight, BUT HYPOTHETICALLY SPEAKING, if you I do… I’ll extend this 40% off contest for the rest of the week! SO, FOLLOW JJ ON TWITTER: www.twitter.com/jawbreakingjwly

It’s 2:30am right now, and I just wanted to say a quick THANK YOU to everyone and anyone who has ever shopped at Jawbreaking Jewelry, or supported JJ in any way! JJ would seriously be nothing without you guys and your support. FOR TODAY ONLY, I am offering 40% off all orders until midnight tonight! Use the code TWOYEARS at checkout.

More in depth “thank you” blog will be up later :)

Aly
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