OnTheRocksDesigns.com

    it’s inspired. 

it sounds good and it can make you feel better.**

giving credit to who I am makes me feel good.

designing, creating and wearing unique jewelry makes me feel even better.

so, after careful consideration, this is the name I decided on.

lisawrona’s OnTheRocksDesigns is inspired by giving credit to my maiden name [Wrona], which is, after all, where my artistic ability originates.  I wanted to recognize and incorporate my heritage somehow... give credit where credit is due.

I somehow felt that after I changed my name when I got married, I lost my uniqueness, that my sense of self was “on the rocks” —the part that is easily identifiable as to who I am.  That it would lie within a name is something that did not occur to me only until after it had been changed. 

So it is here that I pay tribute —within the creation of my jewelry line and freelance design— and raise my glass in honor of individuality.  For this is what my designs are all about.  Please acknowledge your own individuality when displaying your new design and feel even better. 

Thank you.

Lisa [Wrona] Parker

 

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The earliest known printed use of the word “cocktail,” as originally determined by Dr. David Wondrich in October 2005, was from “The Farmer’s Cabinet”, April 28, 1803, p [2]: “11.  Drank a glass of cocktail--excellent for the head** ... Call’d at the Doct’s. found Burnham--he looked very wise--drank another glass of cocktail.”

The second earliest and officially recognised known printed use of the word “cocktail” (and the most well-known) was in the May 13, 1806 edition of the Balance and Columbian Repository, a publication in Hudson, New York , where the paper provided the following answer to what a cocktail was:

“Cocktail* is a stimulating liquor composed of spirits of any kind, sugar, water, and bitters--it is vulgarly called a bittered sling and is supposed to be an excellent electioneering potion, inasmuch as it renders the heart stout and bold, at the same time that it fuddles the head. It is said, also to be of great use to a Democratic candidate: because a person, having swallowed a glass of it, is ready to swallow anything else.”

 — http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ice_cube