{"id":11553,"date":"2015-02-28T15:53:21","date_gmt":"2015-02-28T20:53:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/themagicalbuffet.com\/blog1\/?p=11553"},"modified":"2015-02-28T16:16:05","modified_gmt":"2015-02-28T21:16:05","slug":"9-questions-with-gabriela-emma-olivera","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/themagicalbuffet.com\/blog1\/?p=11553","title":{"rendered":"9 Questions with Gabriela Emma Olivera"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>1. When did you discover jewelry design?<\/strong><br \/>\nI always liked this kind of jewelry and the mysticism that goes around them.<\/p>\n<p><strong>2. What made you decide to design purses as well as jewelry? (Or was it the other way around and you did bags first and then decided to do jewelry?)<\/strong><br \/>\nThe bag goes after for a women it&#8217;s a must and complements the style. <\/p>\n<p><strong>3. What inspired the Khalama collection?<\/strong><br \/>\nThe unknown of the different cultures, the different stones, metal, seeds, that they have to be together in a perfect and unique way. <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/themagicalbuffet.com\/blog1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/khalama-fishies-199x300.jpg\" width=\"199\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignnone\" \/><strong>4. Can you take my readers through the process of how a piece of jewelry goes from being a design to a piece for sale?<\/strong><br \/>\nOne day when I start to make the first necklaces I explain to a friend of mine that I have to be inspired, and she told me yes&#8230; because it&#8217;s like a paint or a sculpture it&#8217;s a unique combination, it take me some times minutes, sometimes hours and may be days. It&#8217;s incredible that in one day I could make four five complete. The women who wear it have to feel that it&#8217;s a beautiful combination of the beads, stones, some times wool, everything, cultures, religions. Every women has a color to match not just with the cloth, it has to match her&#8230; When I finish them there&#8217;s some very good people who cooperate on this journey. They take the pictures then uploaded them to the web, make the social media and all the work to sell them.<\/p>\n<p><strong>5. Do you feel the stones and materials you use provide a particular energy to the jewelry?<\/strong><br \/>\nI feel that the combination of the materials, specially the stones and the person who wear it make a combination and creates an energy around them on all the paths that can be.<\/p>\n<figure style=\"width: 199px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/themagicalbuffet.com\/blog1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/khalama-bracelet-199x300.jpg\" width=\"199\" height=\"300\" class \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bracelet from Khalama Collection<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>6. What is one of your favorite pieces and why?<\/strong><br \/>\nI love the Amethysts because my country Uruguay is one of the majors origins of them. They have a spectacular color and for who believe the energy of the stones protect you and give a positive energy.<\/p>\n<p><strong>7. When not wearing your jewelry, what is some of your favorite jewelry to wear?<\/strong><br \/>\nI like the silver a lot and the pre-Columbian gold.<\/p>\n<p><strong>8. When you\u2019re not working on the Khalama collection, what else do you like to do?<\/strong><br \/>\nI have another two companies so I have a lot of work to do, one of logistics and the restaurant so I love to cook!! I read and I have to boys that are my life. I have to take care of them and I spend time with them.<\/p>\n<figure style=\"width: 199px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/themagicalbuffet.com\/blog1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/khalama-baggie-199x300.jpg\" width=\"199\" height=\"300\" class \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bag from Khalama Collection<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>9. What else can my readers look forward to from you and\/or Khalama?<\/strong><br \/>\nLook for a combination of nature with, seeds, wool, stones, and much color.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/themagicalbuffet.com\/blog1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Khalama-SEXEE-Magazine-2.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"450\" class=\"alignnone\" \/><strong>About Gabriela Emma Olivera &#038; Khalama:<\/strong><br \/>\n<em>When Miami-based designer Gabriela Emma Olivera envisioned her handbag and hi-end accessories line <a href=\"http:\/\/khalama.com\/index.php\" target=\"_blank\">Khalama<\/a>, she planned on a brand high in spiritual wealth and abundant with cultural richness: beautiful and boundless with beads imported from such countries as Morocco, Colombia, Peru, Tibet, Uruguay, and India, the extensive <a href=\"http:\/\/khalama.com\/index.php\" target=\"_blank\">Khalama<\/a> line lends itself to a unique cross-continental interconnectedness rarely found in fashion.<\/p>\n<p>Clinging most closely to it\u2019s Tibetan meaning of \u201cSky Path\u201d, <a href=\"http:\/\/khalama.com\/index.php\" target=\"_blank\">Khalama\u2019s<\/a> spiritual energies echo lotus flowers, koi fish, Buddha, and Lord Ganesh while drawing energy from natural stones and organic materials including turquoise stones, lapis lazuli, amber, and coral. The <a href=\"http:\/\/khalama.com\/index.php\" target=\"_blank\">Khalama Collection<\/a> expresses the natural and spiritual.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today we talk jewelry with Gabriela Emma Olivera, the woman behind the high end accessories line Khalama.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[13,24],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/themagicalbuffet.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11553"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/themagicalbuffet.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/themagicalbuffet.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themagicalbuffet.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themagicalbuffet.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11553"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/themagicalbuffet.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11553\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/themagicalbuffet.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11553"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themagicalbuffet.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11553"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themagicalbuffet.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11553"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}