Jess Lively

Hannah over at What Have I Got To Give? (love her blog concept!) sent me over this video by Jack Canfield about The Clay Buddha. She mentioned it was about making under. Admittedly, I was a bit skeptical at first click. But as I watched the 4 minute video, I was shocked at how clearly [...]

Part of the recent Rue Mag feature of my apartment and work studio space was a Worry Flashcard PDF Download (pg. 52). Courtney Khail, the talented graphic/stationary designer and blogger,  did a fantastic job taking my ugly cards and turning them into works of art. If you are new to MML and haven’t heard of [...]

Be The Business Owner You Want to Be {image} You might remember the above print ad from American Express. It came out about 3-4 years ago. That’s Tina Fey, sitting scared underneath her desk, underneath her mess with her daughter, half-clothed in the midst of it all. Why of all of the thousands of ads [...]

Time for bedroom pics! You’ll see a lot of photos that didn’t make it into the Rue Mag feature (pg. 46) because the article was focused on the live/work space rather than my bedroom. And again, Emily Anderson did a fantastic job capturing the special moments in this room. To be honest, I hated this [...]

I have to admit, I’m still buzzing with excitement over the Rue Mag feature (pg. 46) today. In fact, there were so many more awesome photos that didn’t make the magazine, I decided to make an entirely new post sharing them. Emily Anderson did such a great job with the photography it was impossible to [...]

After five looong months I’m thrilled to announce that my apartment/studio combo has been featured in Rue Mag‘s third issue, which launched this morning! I am so thankful for the opportunity to share my home in Crystal and Anne‘s wonderful magazine. Not only did Anne inspire me to start blogging seriously back in January, 2009, [...]

Today in the Jess LC studio Melissa, Susie, and I have been busy planning our newest web initiative, With Love. Over the past few years we’ve been honored to receive many positive, touching, and inspiring stories about how our jewelry has impacted the lives of our customers. So we’ve decided that it’s now time to [...]

It’s true. I haven’t written my 2011 Future Letter to Myself yet. As I’ve mentioned before, for the past five years I’ve written a letter to myself that explains what I’d like to accomplish each year– as if I’ve already fulfilled the intentions. Normally the Future Letter is the thing that I look forward to [...]

Before I begin, I’d like to make it very clear that this post in is no way meant to be a commentary on my sex life or anyone else’s for that matter. This is purely a generic example of how sex is similar in some ways to starting a business. Over the past few months [...]

Putting Yourself Back into Your Business I asked Kendi to step in for me last week because I was preparing to attend a national conference for photographers. I went into it excited about the opportunity to learn from some of the best and to have the better part of three days to focus completely on [...]

On Monday night I gave myself a life realignment. Just like visiting a chiropractor to maintain an aligned spine, I think we sometimes need to “crack” our life back into place. I found myself over the past few weeks ever so slightly out of whack. My center was off. My priorities a bit murkier than [...]

For the past few months the girls and I at Jess LC have been busying preparing for the launch of our newest Franklin design – the I Love You Necklace! Just in time for Valentine’s Day and Mother’s Day, this baby version of our popular braille necklaces is the perfect gift for a friend, sister, [...]

Today I have to do a shout out for our incredibly talented Jess LC intern, Kat of Kat Doodles. She’s recently launched a line of valentines on Etsy and I’m beyond impressed. Her adorable doodles, cute phrases, and high quality card stock are a home run. I can’t wait to watch her line grow from [...]

I’m feeling a bit under the weather, so I’ve been taking it easy and resting quite a bit. Here’s to hoping that tomorrow I feel back to my normal, healthy self again. In the meantime, this thought by Penelope Trunk today really made me stop and think. Though her quote could be considered a bit [...]

Seeing is Believing? Yes, it’s me again. Bryan took a week off to be an awesome husband. You’ll forgive him right? My friend emailed me the other day, asking for advice on her new venture — an etsy shop. Now this took me by surprise as I have no experience with etsy besides one time [...]

The DIY DESIGN YOUR LIFE edition is here! With lots of traveling over the past several Thursdays, this post is a bit overdue from December. Hop over to Nicole and Allison’s blogs to see how they “design their lives around their intentions.” Allison’s post is on Spare Change Living. And Nicole’s is on Simply Nicole. [...]

Well said, Ms. Post. This idea aligns perfectly with my four makeunder steps. [quote found via Traci Zeller Designs]

Today I’d like to talk about something that occurred to me while I listening to a keynote speech at the WJA Women in the Know Conference. While sitting on a fateful mauve velvet seat, I re-imagined Jess LC for 2011. Though I don’t want to give too much away, I will say that I plan [...]

First, I’d like to mention how much fun I had last week in New York speaking at the Women’s Jewelry Association conference, Women in the Know. The keynote speakers were fantastic and left me extremely inspired. Throughout the day I re-imagined Jess LC for 2011 — which now leaves me with a mega long to-do [...]

Right Steps, Wrong Order The last few weeks we’ve found ourselves lost. Completely lost. But the thing is we were doing everything right. We were working on the business, the web pages, the strategy. We met with a few clients to square things away for their upcoming weddings. But it was all wrong. A few [...]

Speaking of New York City, I’m on my way to actually speak in New York City. Tomorrow I’ll be sharing my business story and helping other small business owners at the Women’s Jewelers Association. The conference is called Women in the Know. If you happen to be attending, please come say hi and sit in [...]

As a follow up to yesterday’s post, Don’t Turn Your Want Tos into Have Tos, I would like to present a related concept; how I’m learning to turn my Have Tos into Want Tos. There is no denying that I have plenty of autonomy when it comes to my career, but even self-employment has it’s [...]

NOTE: This post written by Bryan was originally supposed to be used for December, 24th. But since I was on vacation out of town, it didn’t make it on the site until I got back to work in the studio (today). So thank you, Bryan, for your patience and for being an amazing reporter. Enjoy! [...]

NOTE: Welcome back to MML! I’ve definitely needed the time I’ve taken off to recharge and prepare for 2011. I have some housekeeping to do here a bit later on over the next week. In the meantime, I’d like to jump right into one of the best lessons I’ve learned over this holiday break. Enjoy! [...]