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Year in Review: Jewels of the Month for 2019

December 30, 2019 by WendyB

Year in Review: Jewels of the Month for 2019

The highlight of 2019 for Wendy Brandes Jewelry was a gem of a person! I am still madly in love with the photo shoot I did with Judith Boyd, aka Style Crone, because I’m always trying to show that jewelry is for everyone. When I did appearances this year, I decorated my booth/case with photos…

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Filed Under: birthstone, Custom work, diamonds, earrings, featured jewel, gems, gold, gorgeous clients, jewel of the month, Jewelry, jewelry designer, lockets, maneater collection, my designs, necklaces, redesigns, skulls, year in review Tagged With: custom jewelry, custom ring, judith boyd, redesigned jewelry, skull jewelry, style crone, widow jewelry, widow's ring

Jewel of the Month: Padparadscha & Paraiba for ANZA

December 23, 2019 by WendyB

Jewel of the Month: Padparadscha & Paraiba for ANZA

I wanted to save this ring’s blog debut until I had its official portrait taken, but the piece was whisked off to the Kristen Farrell Gallery before I could get it to a photographer! So here is a casual snapshot of my latest creation for ANZA Gems. This one-of-a-kind 18K rose gold ring features a…

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Filed Under: featured jewel, gems, jewel of the month, Jewelry, my designs, rings Tagged With: anza gems, lost-wax casting

Jewel of the Month: Inspired by Empress Eugenie

November 13, 2019 by WendyB

Jewel of the Month: Inspired by Empress Eugenie

Thank you to Brecken Branstrator of National Jeweler for alerting me that on Nov. 27, Christie’s in London is auctioning jewelry that once belonged to Eugenie, who was the last empress of France via her marriage to Napoleon III. I appreciate that the auction house has the full provenance of the jewels listed: Provenance is…

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Filed Under: featured jewel, History, jewel of the month, Jewelry, lockets, necklaces, queens Tagged With: christie's, empress eugenie, empress josephine, jewelry auction, juana la loca

Jewels of the Month, Part 3: “Gothic Chic” Skulls

October 14, 2019 by WendyB

Jewels of the Month, Part 3: “Gothic Chic” Skulls

This month, I’ve highlighted jewelry that connects to current events, as well as jewelry designed around perennial themes. My final Jewel of the Month post gives you both qualities. Of course, skulls are always right for the month of Halloween, but the bonus is that the Wall Street Journal has declared this to be a…

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Filed Under: diamonds, earrings, featured jewel, jewel of the month, Jewelry, my designs, necklaces, skulls Tagged With: black diamond skull jewelry, black diamonds, carpe diem jewelry, skull jewelry

Jewels of the Month, Part 2: October Birthstone

October 10, 2019 by WendyB

Jewels of the Month, Part 2: October Birthstone

Tourmaline and opal are October’s two birthstones. I’ve shared the double-tourmaline ring that I created for ANZA Gems before, but ANZA’s recent Instagram post of it has inspired me to feature the ring again. I love how this post shows the different phases the gems went through: uncut rough; faceted but loose gems; and finally…

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Filed Under: birthstone, earrings, featured jewel, gems, jewel of the month, Jewelry, rings, Shopping, stud earrings Tagged With: october birthstone, tourmaline

Jewels of the Month, Part 1: For the Whistleblower

October 9, 2019 by WendyB

Jewels of the Month, Part 1: For the Whistleblower

A real patriot puts country over party or president. I’m thankful to the whistleblower who recorded, in a memo, a White House official’s view that “… the President had clearly committed a criminal act by urging a foreign power to investigate a U.S. person for the purposes of advancing his own reelection bid in 2020”…

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Filed Under: featured jewel, In the News, jewel of the month, Jewelry, lockets, my designs, necklaces, politics Tagged With: ukraine, whistle blower, whistleblower

Recommended Reading: Anne Thériault’s Queens of Infamy

July 15, 2019 by WendyB

Recommended Reading: Anne Thériault’s Queens of Infamy

I’ve been scolding myself for nearly a decade (seriously!) for giving up my Thursday Book Club posts, most of which focused on the bad-ass historical women who inspire my jewelry designs.  The last book-club post was the finale of my three-parter on A Distant Mirror, Barbara Tuchman’s book about the 14th century, which I posted…

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Filed Under: anne boleyn, featured jewel, feminism, History, jewel of the month, Jewelry, my designs, necklaces, queens, rings, snake Tagged With: bad-ass historical women, eleanor of aquitaine, leo jewelry, lion jewelry, lion necklace

Jewels of the Month: Time to Give Women a Hand

June 12, 2019 by WendyB

Jewels of the Month: Time to Give Women a Hand

I’ve got a limited number of my sterling-silver emoji earrings left. Ten of those depict hand gestures; they’re sold as single studs that you can mix and match. Through Sunday, June 16, at 11:59 p.m. ET, I will donate $10 from each $35 purchase of a single stud to your choice of She Should Run…

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Filed Under: #NOPE of the Day, earrings, emoji, featured jewel, feminism, Good Causes, In the News, jewel of the month, Jewelry, news, politics, rants, single earrings, stud earrings Tagged With: emoji earrings, joe biden, joe biden's finger, liuba grechen shirley, she should run, vote mama

Wednesday’s Video: Self-Engagement Ring

April 17, 2019 by WendyB

Wednesday’s Video: Self-Engagement Ring

If you missed last week’s video about my gorgeous customer Laura’s “self-engagement” ring, here’s a little taste. View this post on Instagram Last week on our #vlog, we were talking about a gorgeous custom ring for a gorgeous client: ⠀ ⠀ “I will be 50 on Thursday and I would like to celebrate with a…

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Filed Under: Custom work, customer of the day, featured jewel, gorgeous clients, Jewelry, rings, video Tagged With: green tourmaline

Jewel of the Month: Laura’s Tourmaline Ring

April 10, 2019 by WendyB

Jewel of the Month: Laura’s Tourmaline Ring

April’s Jewel of the Month is a custom ring I created for gorgeous client Laura in honor of her 50th birthday. Fun fact: This was the first time I ever took apart one of my existing designs to use a gem for a customer’s ring. Say goodbye to my original 18K gold Fulvia ring … ……

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Filed Under: Custom work, customer of the day, featured jewel, gorgeous clients, jewel of the month, Jewelry, jewelry designer, my designs, platinum, rings Tagged With: tourmaline

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