Dazzling Butterflies

All you dedicated Holiday Shops in Bryant Park visitors know how I love Dazzle Studios. Susan Manley, the owner, doesn't just design beautiful jewelry, she's also assembled an impressive group of artisans whose work she promotes and sells alongside her own. And this year she's got something new and exciting: jewelry made with butterfly wings.

Now don't freak. Bob and Ravi Natalini aren't stalking sweet, floaty butterflies round the rainforests. No, it's much more honorable: thanks to their license from the Department of the Interior, this artisan team exports butterfly wings from farming projects and rainforest sustainable use systems in Central and South America. Those beautiful butterflies have all lived full and purposeful lives by doing their part to contribute to their rainforest's economic viability and income for their local human counterparts. And all this creates incentive to maintain the rainforest in its natural state.

But after their number's up (thanks to natural causes), voila! Their wings become immortalized in beautiful jewelry. So visit Dazzle Studios in The Holiday Shops at Bryant Park and celebrate those hardworking butterflies and their beautiful, artful wings that make all this goodness possible.

Dazzle Studios, soon to be listed on the soon to be released kiosk vendor guide!