Happy Holidaze & Happy New Year!

Been Haulin'

Its been awhile…holiday hustle/livin’ life means neglecting the blog…but whoever actually reads this is used to that ; )

 I write Cup of T for myself mainly…to recap life. Sometimes I feel bad for certain trips I take or certain events & exciting things that happen because they don’t get enough credit. I am just onto the next without taking the time to look back and reflect which is why I have this…to write about it. I’ve always loved to write but I like to spell things wrong and talk in my own language.

This post is a little CA recap mixed with Holiday recap mixed with Happy New Year mixed with What’s Next. 

Ya Dig? 

This is what happens when you write once a month…gotta cover alotta ground.

Big Sur, I love you.

I spent Thanksgiving weekend camping in Big Sur. It was magical. I have to say Big Sur is right up there with one of the most amazing places I have ever been. Simple living = 2 general stores + 0 cell phone service. 

Big Sur is full of dreadlocks, camp grounds, dive bars, beach roads & mountains. Days spent hiking, evenings spent hula hooping, dinners cooked over the fire and early mornings spent sitting on tree stumps with coffee & blankets. Some nights were spent in dive bars, some nights were spent with locals on their communes…through the woods, up the mountain ridge, on the cliff, overlooking the pacific, watching shooting stars…that happened. Not that pictures do it justice but here goes…

I returned home with a LONG list of todo’s. I was refreshed after a trip to the wilderness. There was one spot with cell phone service in Big Sur…on the left side on the Big Sur bakery parking lot. So it was back to reality, and back to start the holiday hustle.

For everyone who follows along on instragram, y’all know each & everyday of Decemeber was spent on the grind. I appreciated every second of it. I am so thankful for every customer who chose Trust for their holiday shopping. It goes sappy quick, but at the end of each day hustlin’ & trustin’  I walk down to the beach to catch the sunset. Every night, I feel SO lucky that I can do that. I think about all of the people who fueled my fire for the day. How busy I was because of them. How I worked all day on this little business that is now my full time job. I still think its crazy, I don’t think that will ever leave me. 

I recently read A Short Guide to a Happy Life as my moms friend recommended it to me. If anyone hasn’t read it….it will take you 20 minutes and the authors outlook on life is on fleek. It is relevant to paragraph above...

I flew home a week before Christmas to the East Coast to spend the holidays with my family. Where you grew up will always be your home. That’s how I feel at least. I saw people I love, people I grew up with, best friends, old friends, new friends and family. Nothing is better than that.

I set my 2016 Business & Personal Intentions.

More time spent in the mountains (Do more of what you love)
More hip hop classes (Ill never stop dancing)
No more clothes (Over being the girl with overweight suitcases) 
Less $12 Moon Juices (Sadly, not on the TRUST Budget)
More Santa Monica stairs (Work the glutes)
Overall...
Less material things...More Travel & More Adventure

Trust 2016 is comin’ atcha...Here we come VEGAS!

I will be in serious prep mode for POOL Trade Show in February. There is SO much to do before that. Besides actually making (SO MUCH) jewelry, my face will be buried in paper work, prep and the "Pool To Do" list I created thats already making my head spin.

Heading back to the West Coast

I overdosed on sugar this holiday season so like every other person in the world, January will be full of sweat & cleanse on repeat.

Happy New Year everyone!

XX

T

Holiday Events

Trust Hustle Gypsy Shuffle

Goodbye Nashville | Hello West Coast

I started writing this post 5 times before I got any farther than a blank piece of notebook paper. Yes, I still write in notebooks. There is something about paper I love. Anyways, I am finally back in CA after the Trust Hustle/ Gypsy Shuffle.

I don’t even know where to begin. I spent two weeks in Nashville and feel like I could have stayed forever (if there was an ocean.) It 's soley the one thing Nashville is missing if you ask me. In all other aspects its 100% Tanya + Trust approved. I went to Nashville with a clear vision, a list of fun-todos, and a list of  biz-todos...including my top 4 choice shops I had researched. Two weeks later, Trustin’ in those 4 new stores…Bragging at its finest.

I am totally overwhelmed by the amount of support from a community, one I was in for only two weeks. Also, totally overwhelmed with the amount of coffee shops I could live in and good eats (foodie thoughts). Local support and community involvement is without a doubt a Nashville standard. Thanks to the Nashville Guide for all your help & for the Trust feature...I would have been lost without you!

There was no such feeling of uncertainty when I got to Nashville. I knew right away, I was in a perfect place to spread trust and meet the south. Staying with one of my best friends of course helped. Ashley, from Jam Catchers recently moved to Nashville to further her music blog…soooo live music almost every night, meeting opening acts for top country music stars, industry showcase hangs…was what was UP. The entire city of Nashville was on the HUSTLE as it was CMA’s week. We only got stuck in CMA traffic downtown for 2 hours. If you get star struck, you can’t go to Nashville….(or Malibu btw.) OH AND…Just FYI…Kareoke is the real deal…people are trying to get discovered. So in other words… two White Girl Yankee’s singing No Diggity didn’t make the cut. At least don’t let anyone video tape you.

You can now shop Trust in these 4 new Nashville Locations! 

 CastilleJ > owner is grammy award winning song writer, Liz Rose-didn’t get to meet her because she was receieving an award during CMA week (No Big Thang)

Sisters of Nature > owner Kim, is a designer hersef. She started the boutique in a 1954 vintage camper which is now a Nashville AirB&B. She opened Sisters of Nature as a brick & mortor in East Nashville. From photo shoot styling to farm dinners to interior decorating...This chicks got it goin' on!

Native + Nomad > Just opened on 21^{st AVE} …only one of the hippest streets in Nashville. Its across from Fido where I became a regular…the hummus- on fleek. Anyways, I want to buy everything in this shop.

ABEDNEGO > Ya know when you meet someone and just click with them? That happened with me & Meredith, the owner. Love her, her shop vibes & vision.

I love connecting with my Trustees. 
When I booked my flight to Nashville, I reached out to a loyal customer/trust regular…she is always ordering new jewels & keeps coming' back for more! 
Nicki (@solaryogi) is a supah talented, kewel yogi. We met at Steadfast (where the lattes are like crack)…and chatted for hours. 
She teaches at Shakti Yoga, another place where I could actually live (exposed white brick, fireplaces, dream catchers and hot yoga…sign me up.) 
Shakti will also be trustin' jewels this holiday season!
Not to get sappy on ya… but it is so important & special to me to be able to connect with the people who have got me to where I am now. I also got to meet SeeDaniStyle. She is a CA fashion blogger Trustee who has done a write up on Trust…I literally ran into her in a shop. 

Small world & Big circle of Love. 

There is SO much more to this trip…that I wish I could sum up better but that’s what memories are for. That’s when traveling is for living in the preset and enjoying the moment. Forgetting to capture everything on camera, forgetting to post about stuff, forgetting to share…having your own memories and experience, one that no one else will ever get to have. 
That to me, is the best part about traveling.

Anywaysssss, Hello from the other side. 

After 2 delayed flights, a snack-less layover (simply the worst) and 3 overweight suitcases….

I am back on the WEST COAST.

Time to start the Holiday Hustle.

XX

T

Autumn Elixir Collection

AUTUMN ELIXIR FALL2015

Trust covered a lot of ground this year from European Scooter Tours to Siena Wine Tasting to Nashville Country Roots to Southern California Winters… We be Trustin’ ROUND THE WORLD.

Combining inspiration from each place I stepped foot on…

“grounded the earth”

“faced the sea”

“followed the sun”

“trusted the moon”

we launch Trust fall2015

Autumn Elixir Collection

I named pieces after some places that stole my heart. Others, I just touched upon but hold a memory. Memphis, TN you ain’t too fancy but 1.) I like your name and 2.)  the memory I have of you...

Hope ya’ll ENJOY!
xx
T
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Colors of Summer

Hi everyone!

August has been full of LIFE so naturally the blog slack is back…not that it ever left but hey!

I may be going in reverse or all over the place but heres whats been up...

(New Coordinate Barres! btw)

This week I will be styling the KuDeTa Chestnut Hill windows with all my favorite shop picks. I am so excited for this because…

1.    We are doing a trunk show September 17^th (FALL LINE!)

2.    I love the Kudeta chikas & can’t wait to hang with them

3.    I think what they’re up to is really cool

They’re having designers & bloggers that they frequently work with come in each month & merchandize their window displays. They will be doing write ups on the inspiration behind the designer/bloggers styles so their customer can learn more about the brands their representing!

Fall Line is in the works…aka FALL SLAY. 

Planning, Brainstorming, Slinging, Photo Shoot 

= Brain Consumption

Here is a sneak peek…can you spot the new jewel!?

#chaChing

From Way Cape to ME to MV to RI to NH…I covered some ground this past month. Here is a little recap in pics…

I love the simple life...Off Gridding in MAINE.

I got a lot of inspiration for the fall line right here on this dock...

Hit up my favorite little island/favorite place in the world MV. 

Slip77 Trunk Show with my girl, HeatherRose

Lately I’ve been rockin’ two Barres.

One says Gold for my aunt whose initials were AU (gold in the period table) That’s also the inspo for the Fields of Gold Collection and my wrist tattoo that says “Love You” in her handwriting from all the cards she wrote me. 

The second barre says MAKAI meaning towards the sea in Hawaiin…cause y'all know how much I love the sea.

Ya I can say it

Speaking of Y’ALL…I am allowed to use that word because this chick just booked her ticket to NASHVILLE. I am taking Trust to the south this fall before I head back to California.

New shops. New friends. New places // On the horizon.

 Nashville | LA Tribe Kelley is trustin’…out of jewels!

The TRUST Dahlia Crystal & The Giving Keys SOLD OUT over at www.tribekelley.com

Country talk…while we’re at it check out Macy Maloy TRUSTIN’

You might recognize her from…ChaseRice’s RIDE 

She is now a TRUST babe!

September is ahead…I mean here…

I will be trustin’ up to Vermont next week to stock the Green Mountain State. 

August brought 2 new accounts

New State...FloRIDA at Tenley Dietrich 

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Shop Izzy's in Andover, MA

I posted something really sappy outside of my norm but I was really feeling the love & wanted to share.

"'Bout to get sappy on ya!

Just wanted to take a post to express how much all of your support means to me. Having a job that allows freedom, travel and the ability to express myself creatively is a dream...it's also a hustle. It's not just seeing trust jewels in a shop window, a trust ad on the back of a public bathroom door, walking by a stranger, flipping open a page to see something I created come to life but it's more...(and ya that's supah cool too) it's seeing trust jewels worn by so many different kinds of people, carrying so many different stories + representing so many different personalities and places that is such a rush to me. This is what makes my dream really come to life + the trust circle go 'round. To have everyone from my best friends to strangers around the world supporting Trust is unbelievable. I appreciate every single one of you!"

Hope everyone can get their gypsea on and squeeze in a few last adventures + beach daze! 

Follow TRUST daily adventures here @trustjewelry 

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Stay tuned for Fall2015 line to drop!

xx

T