Entry No.2 - Following Curiosity

👑 The Tsaritsa Diaries

✧ Entry No.2 — Following Curiosity

“I don’t actually think jewelry changed my life.

I think it gave my life a direction.”

There was a time when I knew I wanted something different from my life. I just didn’t know what I really wanted.

I wasn’t dreaming of becoming a jewelry designer. I wasn’t sketching collections or imagining that I would one day create a brand.

I saw a nail art video.

The colors were moving through water, creating unusual shapes and patterns, and I remember thinking:

That looks like jewelry.

That one small thought led me to jewelry school.

In the beginning, I wasn’t very good. I burned my hands, cut my fingers and made pieces that make me laugh now. At first, I was probably more confident than I had any reason to be.

Later, when I began learning from an experienced jeweler, I discovered how much I didn’t know.

It was humbling.

But it made me better.

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Everything changed when I came up with the idea for b.Tsaritsa.

I had been fascinated by the jeweled regalia I saw at the Green Vault in Germany. I loved the beauty, the symbolism and the extraordinary detail of those pieces. 👑

I wanted to create jewelry for the Tsaritsa in all of us.

For the first time, I wasn’t simply learning how to make jewelry.

I was creating a world of my own.

And I realized that if I could imagine something that didn’t exist, I could continue imagining more.

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Years later, Reality Transurfing entered my life, and my jewelry changed with me.

The first piece was the Transurfing Board.

I hadn’t planned to create one. I designed the shape, looked at it when it was finished and immediately recognized what it was.

From that one piece, an entire collection began to grow. 💎

Sometimes I know the meaning of a piece before I design it. Other times, the meaning reveals itself afterwards.

Either way, every design eventually becomes part of a larger story.

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I still spend as much time as I can with every piece before it leaves for its new owner.

I look at it.

I put it on.

I admire all the tiny details.

And sometimes, I almost don’t want to let it go.

Because whenever I hold a finished piece in my hand, I still find myself thinking:

“I can’t believe I made this.”

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Jewelry didn’t simply give me something beautiful to create.

It showed me what I was capable of.

✧ And once you discover that, you never really go back.