I’ve got the 1984 song “Big in Japan” by Alphaville stuck in my head. Before it was a song, “big in Japan” was a mocking description of rock bands that weren’t successful at home in the U.S. or U.K., but were popular in Japan. The Japanese fans were considered a poor consolation prize. Personally, I’d…
Jewelry
Swear Rings in Russia, Earrings on Perez
Gorgeous blogger Julia, the Thanksgiving Girl, has achieved two Wendy Brandes Jewelry firsts. She’s my first customer in Russia AND she’s the first to get the gold-plated version of my swear rings. Gold-plated means that these are the normal silver swear rings with a thin layer of yellow gold on top.A The plated rings are…
Book Club: A Distant Mirror, the Finale
For this post, the fourth and final one on my favorite history book, A Distant Mirror: The Calamitious 14th Century by Barbara Tuchman, I wish I had a deep-voiced television announcer to say, “Previously on Wendy Brandes Jewelry …” and give a summary of the three preceding posts. Since I don’t have that guy, I’ll…
Where to Buy the SATC2 Earrings
I’m so excited about seeing my Cleopatra earrings in the Sex and the City 2 trailer that I can barely think of anything else. The extended trailer is on YouTube and you can see the earrings on Samantha (Kim Cattrall) at 1:35 and 1:37. She’s wearing her hair down and wavy, which looks great with…
Wendy Brandes Earrings in Sex and the City 2
Oh happy day! I’ve just seen my shoulder-brushing Cleopatra earrings on Samantha (Kim Cattrall) in a trailer for Sex and the City 2. Gorgeous blogger Marian Kihogo reminds me that I mentioned on her blog that SATC2 had borrowed the Cleopatra earrings when I did a guest post for her in February. Samantha is wearing…
Jewel of the Month: Chicken on Nest Necklace
I’m jumping the gun on April’s Jewel of the Month because Easter is coming and I’ve got the perfect Easter gift for you. Forget about baskets stuffed with delicious Jelly Belly jelly beans, scrumptious Cadbury Eggs and indestructible Peeps. My petite, sterling silver Chicken on Nest necklace is much cuter and less caloric. This is…
Introducing the Asterisk Ring
I was going to save my newest ring design for April’s Jewel of the Month post but I can’t stand the suspense. Here is my first addition to the Wendy Brandes swear rings set: the sterling silver asterisk ring. If you already have the four-ring swear ring set, or plan to get it, you can…
Wendy Brandes Jewelry on InStyle.com
In case you missed it earlier this week, there’s a big, beautiful photo of my Marie Antoinette ring on InStyle.com. I was happy that Marion Fasel, the contributing editor for fine jewelry, described the ways in which the story of Marie Antoinette inspired my design. Thanks, Marion! You might have already figured out that the…
Get Smart (About Custom Work)
In yesterday’s post on my Freud cufflinks, I mentioned that a client who orders custom jewelry from me will get a lower price if I wind up adding the design to my line. I promised a long explanation of that and here it is. Remember my January post about manufacturing costs and how larger quantities…
Jewel of the Month: Freudian Links
Like I said yesterday, crazy is the new chic, so my sterling silver Sigmund Freud cufflinks are the Jewel of the Month. These cufflinks would be a thoughtful gift for the well-dressed psychiatrist, psychologist or psychopath in your life. People who don’t fall into any of those categories like the cufflinks too: MrB, who is…