The one and only Celebrity Jewelry blog

Holy Silver Ring!  Lindsay Rodrigues sported a massive silver ring while Hosting MTV’s TRL earlier this week.  This is an interesting piece of designer jewelry, because it makes a bold statement, without being flashy.

The very deserving John Mayer was honored on Monday as Cosmo’s Fun Fearless Man of the Year.   Here he is at the party wearing a very cool leather chord  and silver bracelet.  This is a nice understated look for men who are not used to wearing designer jewelry.

Jessica Alba glowed on Monday at the Lanvin fashion show in a stunning gunmetal dress and 4 silver bangle bracelets to go with it.  The big stack of silver bracelets on one arm (not both) is all the rage right now in designer jewelry.

We can always count on Taylor Swift wearing a truckload of silver jewelry.  Here she is performing on MTV’s TRL last week with at least five silver bracelets on one arm.  Most of them feature some sort of black oxidizing to toughen the look.

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Marisa Tomei wore a very cool designer jewelry piece to the 2008 Film Independent Spirit awards last week.  It is a multi strand silver mesh chain necklace with a fish shaped high polish pendant with blackened recesses.  It is modern and fresh.  We love it.

We were surprised to see funny man and Fu Fighters’ lead singer Dave Grohl dressed so smartly at Clive Davis’ Grammy party earlier this week.  He even - gasp - completed his look with a nice piece of designer jewelry.  Here he is with a silver cross necklace, very original in design.  It appears to have a matte finish and a custom clasp on a black leather or silk cord.

Here’s proof that one can never go wrong with mixing and matching link-style designer jewelry.  Here is a shot of Alicia Keys performing at Clive Davis’ pre-grammy party, looking stunning in a pair of link earrings that are so huge they have their own area code.  It was smart of her to avoid a competing necklace, with these danglers, but the link bracelet looks fantastic with them.

Just like Kate Hudson, Alicia Keys has discovered if your jewelry works, wear it twice in one week.  Here Alicia is performing at the 2008 Grammy Awards looking gorgeous in her huge silver cuff bracelet and gigantic silver hoop earrings.  She also wore the earrings during her recent Superbowl performance.

Ringo Starr wore a tasteful silver necklace with an Om symbol pendant to the 2008 Grammy Awards.  The Om symbol seems to be the modern equivalent of the peace symbol.

Is it our imagination, or are more rappers ditching the bling in favor of more tasteful, sophisticated designer jewelry? Our case in point, is Snoop Dogg at the 2008 Grammy Awards on Sunday.  This shield-shaped silver necklace is striking.

I am also going to add another blog of our Spiritual Social Network coming soon.

“He is the wisest who seeks God. He is the most successful who has found God.” -Paramahansa Yogananda

A few Years ago, I sat with my coach discussing my goals, we were about 9months in to our professional relationship. The topic of lack of spirituality entered our conversation, I felt a lack of spiritual alignment with my goals. I was coming off a devastating business loss, a year or so prior, and by this time, I had recovered. I was on my way back to financial security, even though my debt was still massive, I had a mechanism in place to provide for my family in a comfortable way. But the financial success and business success which were always tied for me, really didn’t include spirituality. And, I didn’t know how I could involve more spirituality in my business. That has always been the issue for me, I had no clear path to spiritual integration with my professional/business life.

I am not alone in this, a lot of people don’t even have a job they like. A neighbor just said, it would be bad, If I hated my job. So their is finding meaning in your work, no matter what you do, you can find meaning in it. At the very least, you can look at the fact that you are working to pay your bills and providing food and shelter for our lives. But, that’s where it stops, reminds you of Maslov’s hierarchy of needs. They are important to remind our self, and even though there is a lot of debate on the subject. What comes first, spiritual needs driving our basic needs or basic needs leading us to our spiritual needs. Here is the hierarchy in my quick understanding:

1. Food Shelter Clothing Survival needs - Low Level

2. Need for affection relationships communion

3. Need for Community, City, Country–belonging

4. Self Realization - Need for meaning in life - work
5. Self Actualization - Spiritual enlightment need - High Level

Some people say that if you work for money and food and basic needs, you will go up the chain to find more and more, as the basic low level needs just can’t keep our attention long enough. So people who have their basic needs met, often want spiritual needs. But, what about the people who have their spiritual needs met, do they want their basic needs met? At the surface level you might think that, but we are not talking about artists here, or people trying to be free and spiritual types as we call them.

To be truly spiritual, you would go work in a factory in a job that is disgusting by most standards, but still love it, how & why? It’s because they are guided spiritually, they know that all of their needs maybe met with that job. Their connection needs, spiritual satisfaction from delivering a great car, folders, chemicals, whatever they are building. The money and the basic needs that they get to provide for their family. Some of the most spiritual people I have met often are wise to this point, and I am glad that my father was self aware enough to do this kind of a job for our family. Michelle Obama, the Presidential front runner Obama’s wife, provides evidence of this in her life of her dad. So spiritual alignment in work, life, family, personal balance is a must.

What do you have to find it? It’s easy know and be comforted that everything is as it’s suppose to be, God is all around us, in everything, everything is a gift of spiritual blessings, and all we have to do is, open up to this fact. Much easier done than said, it’s quite simple really, but people make it hard. That is why Swamiji as my hindu friends would call Gurus, Sages, Wise folks, makes it so easy for us all. They keep it simple and just smile.