If you’re in the U.S., you can still order Valentine’s Day jewelry from me and get it in time. Just choose overnight delivery on checkout. (If you’re in New York City, you can order on the 14th and I can send your order by messenger. Email me at wbjewelry at hotmail dot com for that…
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Happy Chinese New Year! Celebrate With a Snake.
It’s the Chinese New Year today — welcome to the Year of the Snake, like it or not! Alas, a lot of people don’t like it very much, according to Friday’s Wall Street Journal. The Snake is seen as less auspicious than the Year of the Dragon that just ended. And there’s another problem when…
Valentine’s Day Sale: Teeny Genie Necklace
My teeny genie necklace in blackened sterling-silver is more than half off now through Valentine’s Day. You can see how it looks paired with my Little Woolf necklace in silver on gorgeous Nina of Love and Lemonade Photography. The 18K-gold version of the genie necklace is also 50% off. If you’re ready to splurge, my…
Love Valentine’s Day? Hate It? I’ve Got Jewelry for You.
I bristle when I hear people complain that Valentine’s Day is a manufactured, consumerist holiday, then claim that THEY always express love with thoughtful gifts or acts on ordinary days. That would be lovely if it were true, but I suspect many of those folks of talking the talk, but not walking the walk. Blame…
Too Mainstream? Get the Fuck Out of Here.
The reaction to my “romantic, gothic, alien” jewelry that I hear (and enjoy) the most is, “I’ve never seen anything like that in my life.” Other jewelers gasp when they see that my golden egg locket opens to reveal a tiny, diamond-eyed silver chicken … which, in turn, opens to reveal three gold eggs. I…
Are You Fluent in French?
If you’re fluent in French, holla at me in the comments, because I’d love to get a good translation of Made in Joaillerie’s post on my ruby-and-gold Juana peekaboo skull locket! Of course, I’ve already used Poodle Translate so I get the gist of the story, but those computerized results aren’t very elegant. I’m unusually…
Flaunt Your Age, Part II, and More Than a Week in Review
After posting Tennille’s custom 1976 birth-year necklace on Friday … … I’m already working on another customer’s 1966 birth-year necklace! If you’re interested in ordering your own birth-year necklace, email me at wbjewelry at hotmail dot com. You can select silver or gold and a chain length from 16″ to 20″. For those of you…
Flaunt Your Age
The late, great Nora Ephron wrote a book called I Feel Bad About My Neck: And Other Thoughts on Being a Woman. In the title essay, she called the neck “a dead giveaway” when it comes to age: “Our faces are lies and our necks are the truth. You have to cut open a redwood…
Good Customers and Bad Customers
I was going to share some insane emails — verbatim — from a would-be customer but I decided to spare you normal people the foolishness. (But if any crazy people happen to be reading this, make a note to yourselves: I don’t have to do any custom work that I don’t want to, and if…
New Jewelry Designs for Last-Minute Holiday Shopping
I picked up some just-finished designs from my manufacturer late Thursday. I don’t have the professional pictures of these pieces yet, so they’re not on my website, but because people seemed pretty excited about them on Instagram, I’m sharing some iPhone photos here. If you want any of these for holiday gifts (for someone else…