My right-hand woman Eryn put together some scrapbook-style images from our experience at the Couture jewelry trade show in Las Vegas, which I CAN’T believe was already three weeks ago! Sheesh. Anyway, we got our nails done the day before — important when you’re showing rings and other jewelry all day — and took a…
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Wednesday’s Videos: A Sampling of Politics 101
I was planning to share a fun, style-related video today, but considering the news, I decided to go with a few clips from the Politics 101 presentation given at my Indivisible Upper East Side meeting last week. Our guest speaker, Ben Yee of You Matter, actually did make this workshop super entertaining. The playlist represents…
The Weeks in Review
In case you missed it, here’s what’s been on the blog recently. Thursday, May 31: This was the first day of the Couture jewelry trade show (the reason my blogging has been far less prolific than usual). I got a mention in WWD as one of the designers new to Couture. Friday, June 1: One…
Throwback Thursday: All About Couture
Now that I’m done preparing for/being at/recovering from the Couture jewelry show in Las Vegas, I’m getting back to posing weekly videos. It make sense to kick things off with a video from Couture, seeing as that’s what I’ve been preoccupied with. Before getting to the video, though, I want to share this written interview…
Throwback Thursday: My SATC Earrings
Yesterday was the 20th anniversary of Sex and the City‘s debut on HBO, and there are tributes and think pieces everywhere. This isn’t one of them, because when it comes to SATC, my heart belongs not to the original television series but to 2010’s Sex and the City 2 movie. SATC 2 was widely panned,…
Flashback Friday: Tweets From 2014
My Eminem-loving friend Naz has a knack for digging up great/weird/disturbing tweets from years past, so I was like, “Find my best ones!” She determined that June 2014 was a good month for me. But let us never forget my most liked tweet so far: If Ryan Lochte lied about that robbery, how can we…
Wendy Brandes Jewelry at Couture (and in WWD)
If you’re in the jewelry industry visiting Las Vegas for the big trade shows, come to Couture at the Wynn and say hello to me at Salon 137, the Contemporary Jewelry Design Group booth, in the Lafite Ballroom. My right-hand woman Eryn and I will be happy to show you the full collection and explain…
Wednesday’s Video: Hatshepsut Locket in Action
When I did last week‘s YouTube playlist of my mechanical jewelry designs, I realized I was missing one of my classic pieces — the deceptively simple-looking Hatshepsut locket. I made this locket after an afternoon spent among the Hatshepsut artifacts at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Hatshepsut was an Egyptian queen who apparently proclaimed herself…
I’m a JCK Jewelers’ Choice Awards Finalist!
Thank you, thank you, thank you to the judges of JCK’s Jewelers’ Choice Awards for selecting my toi et moi ring for ANZA Gems as a finalist in the category of colored stone jewelry over $10,000. The JCK editorial team also got to choose five personal favorites, so a special thank you goes out to…
Wednesday’s Videos: Jewelry That Moves
When I went into the jewelry business, poison rings (aka locket rings) were among my first designs. Then came locket pendants. For a while, so many of my pieces had moving parts that my friends would grab any new jewelry and try to pry it open. However, not all of my mechanical designs have a…