The Wall Street Journal today ran an article by Jenni Avins called “Falling for the Flip Side” about jewelry with secret details. I so wish I had been included in this story because the first paragraph captures my design philosophy so well: “To the casual observer, jewelry is all about catching the eye—how a stone…
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Get Your Bunny Earrings in Time for Easter
I picked up a few more sterling-silver bunny stud earrings from my manufacturer yesterday.If you’re in the U.S. and order by Monday night, you can get yours in time for Easter Sunday. Order a pair … … or, if seeing two bunnies together makes you kinda nervous … … you can get just one bun….
The Week in Review: Easter Jewelry, My Dream Pope Name
This week, the blog was mostly about jewelry. Monday’s post on the Jewel of the Month featured my Easter-appropriate bunny stud earrings, available in both silver and gold as pairs … … and singles. Order your bunnies now in order to guarantee U.S. delivery in time to have a hoppy holiday. (For those who have…
New Jewelry Design: Emoticon-Heart Stud-Earring Set
When I started this blog in July 2007, I decided I wasn’t going to write about jewelry every day. In fact, I decided I wasn’t going to commit to writing about any one topic every day. Even back then, before the fashion-blogger boom, I’d already seen numerous fashion bloggers burn out after six or eight…
This Little Piggy Goes on Your Earlobe
I have a whole menagerie of Easter-appropriate jewelry. I introduced my new bunny stud earrings yesterday. Order by tomorrow in order to get yours in time for Easter! If you prefer the chick-shaped marshmallow Peeps to the bunny peeps, you can coordinate your jewelry by wearing my sterling-silver chicken-on-nest necklace. Tilt the little hen back…
Jewels of the Month: Easter Bunny Earrings
Spring is around the corner, meaning ’tis the season for bouncy bunny jewelry. Bunny stud earrings are my jewels of the month for March. I’ve got bunnies in silver and gold, and you can buy them as pairs or singles. The first four bunnies sold before I could even get them on my website, but…
Good News From JCK and British Vogue
I’m thrilled to let y’all know that I was a finalist in the 2013 JCK Jewelers’ Choice Awards competition! My Empress Wu dragon earrings placed third in the Pearl Jewelry/Over $10,000 category. JCK publishes JCK magazine, the jewelry industry’s leading trade publication. (Here’s an interview JCK did with me last year.) The company also produces and…
Harper’s Bazaar Tells Us to Think Pink!
I just came across this “Think Pink” page in the March issue of Harper’s Bazaar. Makes me crave the sight of Washington, D.C.,’s cherry blossoms, which are due to bloom at the end of this month. If you’re interested in pink jewelry options in addition to those on Bazaar’s page, take a look at a…
WWD Likes Social-Media Jewelry; Buy Yours From Me!
I was excited to see today’s Women’s Wear Daily story about the social-media-influenced fine-jewelry designs. While my signature Wendy Brandes line is inspired by women’s history, my WENDYB by Wendy Brandes diffusion line is all about pop culture, particularly the online world. My first design for the diffusion line was the four-ring swear ring set…
New Earring on the Website. Plus, the Week(s) in Review
You know when someone is talking nonsense to you and it would be way too rude to say, “So what?” so you say, “Annnnndddd?” instead? Obviously, it isn’t that much better than “So what?” So bite your tongue and let your lobe(s) do the bitching with my single ampersand earring in sterling silver. I gave…