Fan favorite Giancarlo Esposito, from the Emmy nominated Better Call Saul, stops by the Jacob Madani luxury shoe display at DPA’s Pre-Emmy gift lounge. Photo: Clair Painchaud Photography for DPA Group.
LOS ANGELES, CA (LA ELEMENTS) 9/15/2022 – “Our workshops are left open, and the veterans come in whenever they feel like they need to get out of their heads and create when they’re having issues, and that is how we run our company,” says 27-year police officer veteran Paulena Gidda who is also the CEO and Founder of Bullets N Beads. Bullets N Beads is a veteran owned and operated jewelry company that repurposes previously fired bullets and bullet casings to create one of kind, handmade jewelry pieces that are truly a work of art. “Everyone in my family is either a police officer or military in some capacity going back generations. We started out giving up to ten percent- now we are up to thirty-five percent, of everything we make goes back to support veterans and first responders dealing with the effects of PTSD. Whether that is through wounded warriors, BC legions, getting PTSD dogs for veterans that need it, suicide help lines, and essentially wherever the need is required, Bullets N Beads will give back to.”
The lovely Luxe Hotel was the backdrop for DPA’s 2022 Pre-Emmy’s Gift Suite, which was held on September 10th and 11th. While sponsors offered everything from a variety of gifts to a luxury vacation, the theme among the individual vendors was uniqueness with sentiment. Whether it was one of kind jewelry pieces, accessories, or designing stylish activewear, each product had a story and feel good uniqueness about them. Along with hypno-magnetic sessions and light bites there was keen focus on self-care and reflection on one’s self and impacting others in a positive manner as well. VIP guest were treated to an array of gifts, certificates, jewelry, and wellness products.
The following is an exclusive look into some of the outstanding gift sponsors at the DPA Pre-Emmy Gift Suite:
Soori Bali This luxurious resort offered a much needed sanctuary from the pressures of the industry. Spa treatments and luxury dining amidst the beauty that is Bali? Paradise found!
Emmy winner Nneka Onuorah (“Outstanding Directing for a Reality Program”) for Lizzo’s Watch Out for the Big Grrls, will be taking a well deserved vacay at Soori Bali. Photo: Claire Painchaud Photography for DPA Group.
Fallen Stars is a family run Herkimer diamond jewelry company run by Vincent D’Aleo and his wife. Vincent D’Aleo hand-wires each of his Herkimer diamond necklaces himself. Fallen Stars gifted guests necklaces with these rare hand wired diamonds. Each necklace is truly one of a kind due to the unique raw beauty of the diamonds, as well as the different hand twisted wire pattern around each of the crystals. These diamonds are exclusively found and mined in Mohawk River Valley, New York.
“When I have these on a little poster and you start staring at them for a little while, you start feeling these amazing feelings of goodness,” says Alexis Pauling, founder of Claymonics. “It’s really strange. I’m not the only one that happens to. I didn’t say anything to anyone about it, but they started telling me about it.” Claymonics are name and word patterns that are transformed into geometric pattern images. “I wanted to draw with color, so I started trying to learn Adobe and all these different things and I found an app that did patterns, but it was not meant to do what I was doing. I just kind of stumbled and wondered what if I try this because you can handwrite on it. When I did that, it was these amazing patterns once I changed it to geometric patterns. It was insane, but you can’t replicate no matter how hard I try its always a different pattern.” Claymonics is an intuitive and mathematical art intended to invoke feelings of positivity. Attendees were each gifted activewear such as leggings with the unique geometric patterns.
S1X Born Candle gifted their hand poured and crafted candles. The candle company is based out of Toronto, Canada and focuses on creating artisan candles with fine ingredients and unique aromas. Not only are these candles vegan due to their plant-based soy and coconut wax blend, but they are packaged in containers that can be recycled or reused.
Bijoux Sail Away Jewelry is a handcrafted Canadian based jewelry company that creates unique pieces using the finest beads and materials such as exotic glass beads, semi-precious stones, fresh water pearls, and Swarovski crystals. The company also offers custom made pieces. They gifted guests beautiful statement earrings. “We wanted to bring colors that usually people like obviously black is a very popular color, and blue you can easily mix it and make it classy or casual with jeans. The idea was monochrome and pops of color,” says Véronique Thibeault designer and co-owner of the brand.
Jacob Madani designs and handcrafts luxury footwear and leather accessories for men and women. We especially love that they are based here at home in the City of Angels.
Guest were also treated to delicious bites from several catering companies such Carvery Kitchen, who had a selection of mouth-watering samples for guests to nibble on. For those with a sweet tooth What A Treat, a Los Angeles based homemade dessert company had miniature Mediterranean ashta desserts cups for everyone.
Nathalie Dubois Sissoko is President of Dubois, Pelin and Associates (DPA) an entertainment strategist company. For more information on DPA please visit their site.
Cover photo of Emmy nominated director Cherien Dabis (Only Murders in the Building) by Mathias Carette.
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