The Importance of Being Venice
Since I was a child, my mother has always let me express myself with paper, colors, scissors. I have always loved to create, disassemble and understand how things worked. In 2006, a few years before starting the University, I began to adjust jewelry for friends (there were no tutorials!) amd I learned that my curiosity would be my best friend. The first sales, the first satisfactions, the first photos arrived while I was already studying to become a psychologist and creating helped me to manage my anxiety and my difficulty in relationships. Thanks to the jewels I could get in touch with people from all parts of the world and I was able to be an independent woman. From there a few years I bought my first camera with which I worked to create the first true professional photos of my jewelry.
I had no doubts about which name to choose for my shop: I was Venice Queen, as my favorite song of Red Hot Chili Peppers, so Venice Bijoux would have been perfect (and still today are Venice for many people).
Over the years I have been looking for my own style until I realized that the bohemian was the one that helped me express myself better: It's not just a style, it's a way of life. Being bohemian means to love all the artistic styles (like the boho style, Victorian, gypsy, hippie), for the cultures of the whole world, for the '70s and' 80s, it means to embrace the richness of every culture, of every historical epoch , It means loving colors, hard stones, wood, silver, steel, brass and melting them to make hoop earrings (my favorites!), pendants, lucky necklaces, maxi rings for book lovers. Among my greatest sources of inspiration are the American Indians who often use the turquoise color (my favorite) and have a deep history of spirituality, as in my island, Sardinia.
My philosophy of life and work is tattooed in my left arm: Deus ti du paghiri, the good you give to people is the good that comes back to you, as my grandmother used to say, and it is all the love I embody in every boho necklace, in every pendant, in every gypsy jewel.
In 2015 I had a long period of serious illness and, once healed, I wanted to make my passion a job.
Today I work as a freelance psychologist and help other women like me to become independent and to live on their art, telling my story.
Next to me, my family that supports me today as then when They let me draw on the walls, my brother who inspires me new solutions, my partner who motivates me when I'm tired, my cat Moka (the idol of my customers!) and my "Venice Girlz", strong women from all over the world who have never left me even when I had to suspend my work for the disease (since 2006 have become an army, thank you!) and that every day inspire me and me they support with their advice.
Somewhere unknown to me, my grandparents support me as guardian angels.
