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Recommended Reading: Anne Thériault’s Queens of Infamy

July 15, 2019 by WendyB

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

Fashion Repeats Itself: It’s Snake Time Again

May 1, 2018 by WendyB

I was pleased to see Fashionista.com report that snakeskin looks are hot for spring. In 2011, I wrote a piece for the Huffington Post that included snakeskin as a hot trend for fall. Basically, snakeskin is good all year round! And for more than one season or year, as I noted at the time. “It’s…

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Filed Under: About Wendy, Fashion, snake Tagged With: snakeskin

Happy Chinese New Year! Celebrate With a Snake.

February 10, 2013 by WendyB

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…

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Filed Under: earrings, holidays, my designs, necklaces, snake

This Headless Woman Wants You to Read Stylelist

September 22, 2011 by WendyB

After I wrote about fall’s color-blocking and snakeskin/print trends for the Huffington Post’s Styelist site last month, I said to myself, “Self, a trend story isn’t really a trend story without one of my awesome blogger slideshows.” I immediately started working on a snake-print and color-blocking slideshow. Luckily, I didn’t rush it because I got…

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Filed Under: blogger fashion round-ups, blogs and bloggers, fashion trends, Huffington Post, snake

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Award-winning designer of fine jewelry inspired by women's history and pop culture. A former journalist who writes about jewelry, fashion, medieval history, news, feminism, dogs, cats and whatever else is on her mind. Blogging since 2007.
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