{"id":32946,"date":"2016-05-27T14:14:40","date_gmt":"2016-05-27T18:14:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/blog\/?p=32946"},"modified":"2016-05-27T20:41:31","modified_gmt":"2016-05-28T00:41:31","slug":"im-nominated-for-a-wja-award-for-excellence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2016\/05\/im-nominated-for-a-wja-award-for-excellence\/","title":{"rendered":"I&#8217;m Nominated for a WJA Award for Excellence!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I am thrilled to be nominated in the design category for the Women&#8217;s Jewelry Association&#8217;s 2016 Awards for Excellence!<\/p>\n<p>As the WJA&#8217;s press release explains it:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>&#8220;The awards are given to female professionals in the jewelry and\/or watch industries who have demonstrated significant achievements throughout their careers,\u00a0in categories that include: design; manufacturer, dealer, supplier; retail; sales and merchandising; marketing and communications; editorial media; special services; and watches. &#8220;<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Please bear with me: I&#8217;m a little <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.urbandictionary.com\/define.php?term=verklempt\" target=\"_blank\">verklempt<\/a><\/em>!<\/p>\n<p><center><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/giphy.com\/embed\/l0O9xpuD7vm48Cnsc\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" frameBorder=\"0\" class=\"giphy-embed\" allowFullScreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/giphy.com\/gifs\/coffee-talk-verklempt-l0O9xpuD7vm48Cnsc\">via GIPHY<\/a><\/p>\n<p><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Congrats to all the other nominees, especially my fellow designers:  Malak Atut, owner\/designer, ZAIKEN Jewelry; Jennifer Dawes, principal\/designer, Jennifer Dawes Design; Claudia Kretchmer, president, Steven Kretchmer; and Ilaria Lonzoni, design director, Hearts on Fire.<\/p>\n<p>I also need to shout out the editorial media category, whose nominees I know well: Shane Clark, senior fashion &#038; accessories editor, Brides; Hannah Connorton, retailer account manager, Luxury &#038; Luxury Prive, Reed Exhibitions (nominated for her work as former senior editor, National Jeweler); Barbara Palumbo, founder\/editor-in-chief, <a href=\"https:\/\/adornmentality.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Adornmentality<\/a>; Syl Tang, contributor, Financial Times Watches &#038; Jewellery, CEO, HipGuide.<\/p>\n<p>The awards ceremony is being held in New York City on July 25. Get your tickets <a href=\"http:\/\/www.womensjewelryassociation.com\/ev_calendar_day.asp?date=7\/25\/2016%206:30:00%20PM&#038;eventid=31\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>. Nominee Barbara Palumbo and I will be there doing our double-duckface pose &#8212; just like we did at last year&#8217;s awards &#8212; regardless of what happens.<\/p>\n<p><center><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"instagram-media\" data-instgrm-captioned data-instgrm-version=\"7\" style=\" background:#FFF; border:0; border-radius:3px; box-shadow:0 0 1px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.5),0 1px 10px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.15); margin: 1px; max-width:658px; padding:0; width:99.375%; width:-webkit-calc(100% - 2px); width:calc(100% - 2px);\">\n<div style=\"padding:8px;\">\n<div style=\" background:#F8F8F8; line-height:0; margin-top:40px; padding:50.0% 0; text-align:center; width:100%;\">\n<div style=\" background:url(data:image\/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAACwAAAAsCAMAAAApWqozAAAABGdBTUEAALGPC\/xhBQAAAAFzUkdCAK7OHOkAAAAMUExURczMzPf399fX1+bm5mzY9AMAAADiSURBVDjLvZXbEsMgCES5\/P8\/t9FuRVCRmU73JWlzosgSIIZURCjo\/ad+EQJJB4Hv8BFt+IDpQoCx1wjOSBFhh2XssxEIYn3ulI\/6MNReE07UIWJEv8UEOWDS88LY97kqyTliJKKtuYBbruAyVh5wOHiXmpi5we58Ek028czwyuQdLKPG1Bkb4NnM+VeAnfHqn1k4+GPT6uGQcvu2h2OVuIf\/gWUFyy8OWEpdyZSa3aVCqpVoVvzZZ2VTnn2wU8qzVjDDetO90GSy9mVLqtgYSy231MxrY6I2gGqjrTY0L8fxCxfCBbhWrsYYAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC); display:block; height:44px; margin:0 auto -44px; position:relative; top:-22px; width:44px;\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\" margin:8px 0 0 0; padding:0 4px;\"> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/5skPhYB9bT\/\" style=\" color:#000; font-family:Arial,sans-serif; font-size:14px; font-style:normal; font-weight:normal; line-height:17px; text-decoration:none; word-wrap:break-word;\" target=\"_blank\">My favorite person to do #duckface with is @adornmentality ! #selfie #bathroomselfie #wjaawards15 #redlipstick #kisses<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\" color:#c9c8cd; font-family:Arial,sans-serif; font-size:14px; line-height:17px; margin-bottom:0; margin-top:8px; overflow:hidden; padding:8px 0 7px; text-align:center; text-overflow:ellipsis; white-space:nowrap;\">A photo posted by Wendy Brandes (@wendybrandes) on <time style=\" font-family:Arial,sans-serif; font-size:14px; line-height:17px;\" datetime=\"2015-07-28T22:19:46+00:00\">Jul 28, 2015 at 3:19pm PDT<\/time><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async defer src=\"\/\/platform.instagram.com\/en_US\/embeds.js\"><\/script><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Thank you, Women&#8217;s Jewelry Association!  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am thrilled to be nominated in the design category for the Women&#8217;s Jewelry Association&#8217;s 2016 Awards for Excellence! As the WJA&#8217;s press release explains it: &#8220;The awards are given to female professionals in the jewelry and\/or watch industries who have demonstrated significant achievements throughout their careers,\u00a0in categories that include: design; manufacturer, dealer, supplier; retail;&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2016\/05\/im-nominated-for-a-wja-award-for-excellence\/\">Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[231],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32946","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-awards","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32946","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32946"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32946\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32964,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32946\/revisions\/32964"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32946"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32946"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32946"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}