Mia Van Beek Turns Your Kid's Art Into Actual Jewelry, Keychains & Bookmarks.

Jewelry designer Mia Van Beek of Formia Design has come up with a way to turn your children's art into fabulous everlasting mementos in the form of pendants, charm bracelets, earrings, brooches, keychains and bookmarks.



Working with all types of metals [sterling silver, gold, stainless steel, etc], she expertly transforms two dimensional drawings into metal versions of the same.



She can create them as either positive or negative [outlines] pieces and is able to reproduce anything from stick figures to even the most enigmatic representation of a child's imagination.




Words do not suffice, take a look at these examples.

Pendants:







Keychains:





Earrings:

Bookmarks:

Charm Bracelets:


To learn how to submit the art and order your own wonderful piece of her work, go here.

About Mia:

Education and experience:

1988-1991 Jewlery school in Sweden

1992 Journeyman diploma

1996 Goldsmith Master Degree

1997 Degree in design at Collage of arts in Linkoping, Sweden.

2001 set up my own business Formia Design in Stockholm, Sweden

2004 Received Best New Designer of the year award at Stockholm Jewlery show

2004 Established Formia Design LLC in Virginia, USA

She not only creates these whimsical pieces, but it an expert goldsmith and creates other fine jewelry. Visit her website to see her many other jewelry designs.

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Shop her online store.

Uber Luxe: Luxuriator's Diamond & 18k Glasses and Sunglasses

LUXURIATOR was founded and created in 2004 by Los Angeles based eye wear & jewelry designer Franco Vahe. Franco designed the first pair of diamond-studded Luxuriator sunglasses for a celebrity-friend in Los Angeles, where the brand has evolved into an exclusive and highly fashionable must-have jewelry accessory and trademark.


Above: Franco Vahe with Paris Hilton, sporting a pair of his Luxuriator Shades

The Luxuriator Collection is a modern classic luxury brand of handcrafted diamond sunglasses, with a fashion forward blend of hand set pave or micro pave VS grade, G and F color diamonds set in 18K white, yellow, rose or gun metal gold. Hand engraved and enameled versions are also offered. All temples are made of solid buffalo horn and exotic leathers, combined with top of the line optics. The unique diamond rings on each side are a design trademark created exclusively by Franco Vahe.


Above: the Uno 21, their least expensive model at $5,000.00

The collection consists of 2 main styles; Luxuriator Uno, a single bridge chassis and Luxuriator Due, a double bridge chassis. Each frame style can be made with any of the hundreds of lens shapes available and custom tinted to a clients request. Both styles and all lenses can be made with a clients eyeglass prescription.



Above: The most expensive pair they sell. At $65,000.00, the Due 24 has a 2.0 carat canary diamond and 132 handset pave diamonds, making the total carat weight 3.45.

In April of 2007, Luxuriator launched it's impressive collection worldwide at Basel World.
As time progresses, they claim they are committed to designing new styles and concepts using new materials and new technology combining precious metals and diamonds.

At the moment they seem to have 9 stock models that sell for an average of $7,000.00- $8,000.00 dollars. But they make amazingly unusual custom frames as well.








Buy a pair and you'll be keeping company with the likes of the following celebs, who own one or more pairs; Jamie Foxx, Beyonce, Paula Abdul, Paul McCartney, Pharell Williams, Paris Hilton, Usher, Sharon Stone, Denzel Washington, Sting, Oprah Winfrey and more.

For more information email: info@luxuriatorcollection.com
Telephone: 818.760-8493 or 800.448.2411
Go here to find a dealer near you.