Hi! I have some very exciting news to share. I was contacted by
GBK Productions to participate in the MTV Movie Awards Gift Lounge. This would give me the opportunity to get my jewelry in the hands of celebrities, give me a chance to meet them and pitch my jewelry line, hand out my business cards and offer them custom work. How the gift giving suite works is I would have a 3 foot table with my jewelry set up. I would need to make 100 pieces to be able to hand out to celebrities. The celebrities are invite only and rsvp to this event, so not anyone can just walk in and get freebies. The celebrities are given an escort who carries around this gigantic duffel bag as they walk from booth to booth, chatting with the company representatives (like me). There are photographers there to take photos of the celebrities with the products. After the event, I will be supplied with photos of celebrities wearing my pieces. Which then later can be used in marketing materials to promote my jewelry. It is a two day event right before the awards show, during rehearsals. It is from 10 am to 7pm, June 4th and 5th and is held at
The London Hotel in West Hollywood. The cost to participate in this adventure of a lifetime is $5,000. Plus travel and accommodations and the cost of supplying 100 pieces of jewelry. You might remember my
earlier post about my jewelry being featured in Bust Magazine? Well that is how this woman at
GBK found me! I feel like this is an amazing opportunity that I cannot pass up. The universe is pulling it all together for me and I'm thrilled! And also really nervous about how much money this is going to cost me. So I'm hoping that you will help me if you can. I have set up a donation button on the upper right hand corner of this blog. Even if you could just give $5, that would be fabulous! Every little bit adds up. Another way you could help would be to put this link on your blog, twitter, facebook, myspace....anywhere to help spread the word. I could use all the help I can get with this. Thank you sooooooo much for your support!!!!!! {If you have trouble with the donation, I think you have to enter the amount, then push "update amount" THEN log into pay pal. Also, if you don't have a pay pal, you can pay with credit card, the link to that is on the lower left of the donation screen.}
Below are some links to past events. Photos and video so you can get more of a feel for what this event is. Thank you so much for taking the time to read this and helping me out!
Love!
Katie
Link to the Oscars.. This was held at the new W Hotel in Hollywood last month..
http://www.youtube.com/user/gbkproductions1?feature=mhw5#p/u
Link from last year's BET Awards on-site during rehearsals at the parking lot of the Shrine Auditorium. Our production crew transformed the space into a NYC loft!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dv7H-5OjkM8
Pics from last year at the BET's:
http://www.bet.com/Specials/betawards09/betawards09_photos/betawards09_photos_celebritygiftroom.htm?wbc_purpose=Basic&WBCMODE=PresentationUnpublished&Referrer=%7B2EBAB7F5-E62C-4B49-B007-D256D4C33572%7D
This link has videos of participants being interviewed at their booth about their product:
http://www.lasplash.com/publish/cat_index_Entertainment_and_Culture/GBK_Productions_Review-Golden_Globes.php