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It’s truly amazing how powerful the Internet is, or actually how powerful Twitter is….. I sent out a tweet a couple weeks ago about Premium Label and if anyone in Artesia or Long Beach knew these cats…. reason why? because my homey Ashley from Supra was inside a boutique in Brooklyn, NY and seen a tee with my favorite holy grail of be@rbricks…. the Chanel x Karl Lagerfeld x Medicom joint… So Ashley BBM’d me a pic of the tee and I had to have it!

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many are called, but few are chosen!

and on the contrary, no need to dress warm, I brought plenty of HEAT! YA DIG!

A good amount of people have already done their valentines day shopping with us, they put in their custom work orders in early so we have finished some things and still have a LOT of things to finish before this weekend. Here’s some stuff I wanted to show you guys

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I’ve been seeing some jewelers show me some cute eternity rings, I say cute because thats exactly what that shit looks like, some people forget, we’ve been flooding out and pave’ing eternity rings years ago and filling up the side areas, but we don’t always take or update our pics, so I’m glad it gives some of you peeps room for improvement, but EHNH! wrong
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Excuse me while I sip this pedialyte and take some advil…

So do you like my new layout? My brand new page? We had to change the template in order to make my blog way more official…. The amount of traffic I get on here is insane and honestly, it would be even higher in ranking traffic wise had I began my blog a year ago using my own hosts server to host pics… but it’s okay! Now we’re starting fresh again and remember, I really don’t ever copy and paste… I’m the blogger who gives it to you raw and grass roots style. I input original content from nobody but me and while others are just copying and pasting stock photos from brands and etc to keep you informed on the latest hype; meanwhile, I’m letting y’all into my personal life(or to the extent I want to let y’all into) and when you come to this page, you are seeing my life and my jewelry business, so enjoy! God bless and let me begin the weekend wrap up!

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so my mentor Mister Cartoon is in NYC right now killin shit for his periodic NYC Tattoo tour and some Casio G-Shock press…. but before he left, he gave me a few gifts….

now Cartoon knows how much I can’t stand NIKE and I rarely use the word, but this shit is hilarious

smh
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the beautiful tag/autograph by mr C-Toons…

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yes blood related cousin!

so last night I celebrated my cousin’s birthday outta town, she turned 30! crazy! I used to take care of her and my other cousins (on the jewish side of the family) and it’s so weird to me that she was just a baby when I was 7 and I always looked at her and her sisters as little babies! I used to get into A LOT OF TROUBLE before I turned 18, so her mom, my aunt took me in for a couple years and helped me out. I always got love for y’all. forever. I love you Stephanie, happy b-day cuz, I hope I can see you all more often, but I know all of us are not in LA anymore.
lol @ my cousin having her 30th b-day at a strip club, well sorta a strip club, it was grimey as hell in there! shit, they let us take pics and honestly, the strippers in there were so busted up, I’d need to be absolutely drunk and not had sex in 8 years+ to get excited in there. no joke, but who cares…. it’s my cousin’s party

my baby cousins are grown up now. jesus

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so here’s a few more things we have in stock right now, thank you for all the emails, we sold a lot of those crosses as they are the most affordable jewelry we’ve had to date.

well this is even better (except for the necklace, which is still very inexpensive)

most of these items are actually very affordable:
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these rings are so damn clean! I love how muted black diamonds are and that subtle classiness it rings and these are just unreal on pricing!

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Now I don’t want any of you guys to get confused here;
many of you have heard me bash some other jewelers and some “so called” jewelers for making pieces with silver or really my biggest complaint is them making pieces out of stainless steel or alloy OR with a crazy hybrid mix of metal that ain’t worth shit. THEN heavy rhodium’ing the pieces to pass off as gold. AND USE FAKE DIAMONDS AKA CUBIC ZIRCONIAS OR ZIAMONDS(not a real jewelry term) That is when I begin my shit talking….

well some of you may have heard of David Yurman; who is a jewelry company/designer who charges a lot of money and uses silver, BUT uses genuine diamonds on his products. WELL to adjust a little with the economy, we got in a few items to test out and seems as if we got something that beats out David Yurmans silver jewelry with diamonds…. 1. our quality of work and 2. our prices! (fyi, we’ve obviously made silver pieces with diamonds before with white gold rhodium for a tv show or photoshoot to save clients money, but NEVER to pull the wool over anyone’s eyes. but if you wanted to play that bogus game, we’d kill you all in that too)

we PVD’d (sophisticated black plating) some sterling silver beaded chains and sterling silver crosses to see how they would turn out. and the cross shown below here has 10.5 carats in black diamonds! and the pieces came out looking RIGHT! but this is the catch…. david yurman charges basically the same price for gold if not higher with his silver work and we made these pieces for MUCH less than our usual pricing for our black gold pieces.

anyways, you be the judge of our first black silver project with black diamonds. the beaded necklace is also a great alternative for a chain for the alternate black jesus piece we make!
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so my bitch IS dropped and done!
M-Sport body kit…
all moldings and accents painted to proper coordination!
Hamann lowering kit (springs and air link module)
i-forged 22″s…. powder coated glossy black face
all the work and paint and shit fabricated and installed by Platinum!

we played with the rear a little bit and when it’s in sport + mode it sinks down even more about a 1/4″ and this bitch has been killing the streets for just around 24 hours already!
got it detailed today… these pics suck, but I will have some really nice photos soon!

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before all the transformations:

STOCK BUMPER, NOT LOWERED, MOLDINGS ARE CHROME…. WHEELS NOT DONE..

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haha!

so here they are…. the hit television series LOST and the hottest sneaker brand Supra collab to bring you a LOST X SUPRA Expose’ Vaider High
white with white crackled leather and gold piping!
only 50 pairs were made period for cast/crew members of LOST
and only 17 pairs are available to the public…. well technically 16 because I got mine last night

there should be a few pairs available online very soon at FACTORY 413

when you purchase the shoe, you get the autographed Script ” Expose’ ” by the writers of the episode and an Expose’ Coffee Mug.

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awww yeah… this was my homey DJ AM’s favorite TV shows…. RIP bro

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to all my LOSTies out there! yep….. you are all waiting for that season finale huh?
WELL LATER TONIGHT YOU WILL SEE THE PREMIERE OF THE FINAL SEASON OF LOST! until then…..
do you remember the tv show inside of the tv show called ” expose’ “
I can’t give out too many clues…. but Supra Footwear has a special secret shoe releasing at 12pm pacific time at Factory 413 and there were only 50 pairs of this secret shoe made….. BUT ONLY 17 PAIRS WILL BE SOLD AND NOBODY KNOWS ABOUT THIS UNTIL RIGHT NOW!

so If I were you, I’d line up at Factory 413 in the morning to make sure to get your super limited edition pair of these Supra’s! a few pairs will be available online after the 413 store release.

REMEMBER, NOBODY HAS ANY IDEA WHAT THIS IS ABOUT, THIS IS A TRUE QUICK STRIKE RELEASE!

so here is a teaser pic
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not a bad # to have, #23 out of 50…. wonder what shoe it is huh?
yes you get an Expose’ Coffee Mug and the actual Script of episode #314 (aired March 28, 2007) Autographed by the writers: Edward Kitsis and Adam Horowitz.

stay tuned into my blog sometime in the afternoon or check out my tweet!

good luck for those trying to buy this shoe!