Wood is our first true love. We've made wooden adornment, primarily wood plugs, in our Denver, Colorado Workshop since 2004. Over the last several years, we've established a new love of Bronze and Silver, as we've pursued the adventure of casting and finishing these lovely metals. Not to worry, we haven't betrayed our first love, wood still plays a role in every jewelry piece we create.
Until now, our mixed media creations have primarily been pendants rather than plugs, with the exception of our gorgeous Antique Bronze and Verawood Cameo Plugs. However, over the last year, we've been planning and plotting, designing and prototyping; all with the aim of creating beautiful and wearable mixed media plugs.
We've called this project the Luxe Line, indicative of our intention to use beautiful metals, gorgeous woods, and genuine stones to create heirloom quality hardware-set plugs. We're working hard at mixed media weights and hanging designs as well, but the plugs will be hitting the site first.
Keep an eye out, we are beyond excited to unveil our Luxe Line Plugs!
UPDATE: Our first Luxe Line style, the Lunar Phase Plugs have launched to our site!! Check them out on our site, HERE.
Each week the Omerica Organic Design Team works on a new wood plug style or two...
Each week the Omerica Organic Design Team works on a new wood plug style or two with the help of our Instagram, Facebook, and Tumblr followers. We come up with up with an idea and create sketches, posting them each Tuesday for feedback from our fans. We then implement changes as needed and create prototype blocks of each plug style, complete with inlays and etched details that we post on social media on Wednesday. Thursday we finalize all the design details, launch the new style or styles to our website, and post finished photos on Facebook, Tumblr, and Instagram. An entire design cycle in one week pulled off by a design team of two; it's incredibly fun, challenging and rewarding, and also integral in helping us keep up the flow of fresh wood plugs and unique body jewelry styles to our site.
The new plugs we launched in July are pictured above and listed/linked below and were inspired primarily by summertime, nostalgia, and fan requests.
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