Tuesday, August 2, 2011
"Real Fruit Jewelry" debuts in an Elkins Park boutique.
In case you never took the time to notice, fruit is quite beautiful—striking enough to wear as jewelry. Zoe Einbinder, designer of Real Fruit Jewelry, was the featured artisan at Joyeful Art Boutique during July’s First Thursday festival in Elkins Park. That means that along with wine, cheese, and the gallery’s paintings, fabrics and other gifts, a wide selection of Real Fruit Jewelry was showcased while Einbinder mingled. Philadelphia native Einbinder was pleased with the crowd and sales, and especially enjoyed talking with shoppers. What’s fun about her product is that “fruit is a universal thing,” said Einbinder. “Everybody knows it and loves it. I love the diversity of my customers.” Einbinder’s jewelry apparently has appeal across …
Sunday, June 5, 2011
Meet Amy Quigley, yoga teacher and former chemist.
Career transitions are never easy, but consider Elkins Park resident Amy Quigley; she put down her test tubes and Bunsen burner and successfully shifted to a new position teaching yoga. You can find her several days a week teaching yoga classes at the Kokikai Aikido studio near the Elkins Park train station. So how did this unique metamorphosis take form? For 15 years, Quigley worked diligently as a synthetic organic chemist at Merck Pharmaceuticals. When her position was suddenly eliminated due to a corporate restructuring, Quigley took advantage of her 9-month severance period to explore new options. Despite the fact that she had a good run at Merck, she never really loved the job. Quigley’s unfortunate unemployment status led to an …
Sunday, March 27, 2011
Elkins Park author and coach Julie Cohen offers some solutions.
Career coach Julie Cohen supports and advises her clients on a variety of career management issues from leadership development to career advancement. Several years into her coaching business, Julie discovered that her clients’ work-life balance was the 800-pound gorilla in the room. “It was the issue that people wanted solutions for,” Cohen said. Inspired by this chorus of inquiring voices, she created an innovative coaching approach designed to recharge individuals who feel their life is off kilter. Putting her concept down in black and white resulted in “Your Work, Your Life Your Way: 7 Keys to Work-Life Balance,” a book chock full of useful tools and techniques. So what causes our personal planet to go so much out of orbit? Cohen said …
Rachel Ezekiel-Fishbein
8:59 am on Tuesday, June 7, 2011
I have been doing yoga for 15 years, but Amy's classes are by far my favorite. She has a way of teaching that encourages you to try new things and helps you to laugh through the mishaps that may happen along the way. Merck's loss is definitely Amy's students' gain. more ›