 Welcome to Monet Café, visitors, subscribers, friends, and oh am I excited to bring you the artist series Monet Café Designer Bracelets inspired by famous artists such as, of course, Monet and other artists that I also love such as Van Gogh and another amazing pastel artist, Degas. So join me in this little presentation where I wanted you to be able to meet the designer, Mary Valesano, and share a little bit about the story of what an amazing woman of strength, beauty, and grace. And she's going to share a little bit about how we came up with the Monet Café Designer Series Bracelets, a little bit more about herself, and of course, information on how you can purchase a Monet Café Artist Series Bracelet, which will not only support the Monet Café channel bringing free videos to the world, but also my new dear friend, Mary Valesano. We had such a great time creating these bracelets. All right, guys, I am here in Monet Café Studio with a very special guest. This is my friend, Mary, and I discovered her when I fell in love with her jewelry. I found her on Instagram, and I bought many of her bracelets and bought them as gifts for family members. And I recently had the idea. Some of you have probably gotten a little sneak peek of where I have said that I wanted to design a bracelet for Monet Café because often all you see of me is my hand just painting in front of the camera, and I thought, how neat if I could have a bracelet with a little charm on it that said Monet Café. So I was thinking, I wish I knew someone who knew how to do that, and I realized, Mary, I know someone who is a jewelry designer. So this is a special segment of Meet the Designer, and I'm going to have Mary tell you a little bit about herself and what she does, and then we're going to talk a little bit more about the Monet Café Artist Series Bracelets. Okay, Mary, tell us, how did you get into this, and what do you have here to show us? Well, hello there, and thank you so much for having me. I'm so grateful to be here, and I just love Susan, and I'm so grateful to be here. Thank you, sweetheart. All right, I want to show you what my passion is. I love making jewelry, and the medium I love working with is seaglass. I find it myself, and if you don't know or if you're unfamiliar with it, it's basically broken glass that's gone into the ocean, but it has tumbled for 40, 50, 60 years, so the edges are smooth. I love collecting it myself. I've gone on trips specifically to find it, and you will see here, this piece in particular is the neck of a coke bottle, of an old coke bottle. This was found in San Francisco Bay, probably during the 1940s or 50s, and you'll see with my little mermaid girl on it, these are fanpulse for a ceiling fan or for a light. I sell these on my Etsy page. I have all sorts of different kinds, but I love doing mermaid or beach-inspired jewelry, and I love working with seaglass. So basically, with time and age and wear and tear can make things better sometimes. Yes, they can, and in fact, if you want to carry the metaphor on to the storms of life, sometimes they're abrasive, but they can smooth our rough edges, and so that is what they have done. Mary's items that she has shown here are available on her Etsy store, and that is the location where we will be offering the Monet Cafe Artist Series bracelets as well. And her Etsy store is the Manic Beader. She has so many lovely things also available on her website, which is www.themanicbeader.com. I love her jewelry, so check it out, and now we're going to tell you a little bit more about the Monet Cafe bracelets. I wanted to let Mary tell you a little bit about these bracelets, too. I gave her, I could see what an artist she is at what she does, because I had the concept of designing a bracelet around certain colors or certain artists. So I literally gave her three artists that I love and some of the paintings that they have done, because I loved those colors. And she went to her supplier where she picks up all of her things for making the bracelets, and we had a grand time coming up with all of the colors and the textures to these bracelets, and she has done a beautiful job with these bracelets. Now let's hear from Mary a little bit more about her design process in making these beautiful bracelets. This one is the Monet. You can see the painting that inspired this. All of these are semi-precious gemstones. They are Tibetan silver charms on this, and in fact, the little dangly charm is one that we came up with. Susan actually designed the logo that we are using, but we wanted something that would reflect the beauty of this painting. And so these colors kind of spoke to me, and the texture of it just worked into something unique. Now this next one here is the Degas, and that is the beautiful ballerina painting here. This one, again, they are all semi-precious stones. We have different textures and colors. We have your greens and blues, yellows and browns. This is silver-plated chain. It is adjustable in size to fit all sorts of different kinds of wrists. That's important. It's beautiful, but it is not something that is going to be too heavy. It's actually fairly light. It is going to hang and drape nicely, but it won't obstruct anything. We purposely chose this size of charm. It's 20 millimeters, so it would not be very big. I also find, in wearing these now myself, that because they are so earthy in color palette, that they really go with everything. It's not one of those bracelets that you're going to put in a drawer or in your jewelry case and not wear, and they're very artistic. They just look like an artist, right? All right, let's look at this next one. The next one in the series is the Van Gogh. Oh, and I just love these colors in this bracelet. Okay, I am wild about these colors. I don't know what it is about that, but the contrast with the orange and the turquoise colors are absolutely gorgeous. Most of these are very earthy in nature, so they will go and blend in with whatever you are wearing that day. They're beautiful. All right, guys, so we're going to show you close-ups of these. We're going to be talking about these a lot more on your, probably on your Instagram and wherever Mary is going to advertise them. Of course, they're available at Monet Cafe, but I'll be giving you all of the information about how to order these and get your own Monet Cafe bracelet. Mary, thank you so much for this, and I'm so happy that you designed these bracelets just for Monet Cafe. Happy painting and happy jewelry-wearing soon. Bye. Bye-bye. The Monet Cafe Artist Series Bracelets will be available on March 1st, 2020. We'll be sharing plenty of information about how to purchase them, clickable links so that you can show your artistic style and support Monet Cafe. Happy painting.