In case you missed it, here’s what was on the blog this week. Monday: Striped gum and striped dresses. Tuesday: Common retailer behavior drives independent jewelry designers out of business. Wednesday: What Wendy Wore to see “God.” Thursday: Want to shoot lions? Use a camera! Highlights from Instagram include: July may be over, but its…
Throwback Thursday: The Right Way to Shoot Lions
If you want to shoot a lion, shoot him with your camera. That’s what I did when I visited South Africa’s Thornybush Game Lodge in 2013. Look at this handsome fellow with the huge balls and silky mane! This dude’s hair was so on fleek. I mean, he was on fleek a full year before…
What Wendy Wore: An Act of God
You’ve got until Sunday, Aug. 2, to catch actor Jim Parsons (aka Sheldon Cooper on The Big Bang Theory) in An Act of God at Studio 54. Parsons plays God, who is wrestling with “wrath-management” issues while he’s in the midst of updating the Ten Commandments. The by-the-book angel Gabriel is played by Tim Kazurinsky…
The Financial Times on Consignment Practices
Big thanks to a gorgeous jewelry-industry friend for sharing a Financial Times article by Elisa Anniss called, “Retailers seem happy to let designers take the financial strain.” (You may need to create an FT ID in Twitter to read this.) The article, which explains the retail practice of selling fine jewelry on consignment, came out…
What Wendy Wore: Striped Summer Dresses
When I was a kid, I was crazy for Fruit Stripe gum. A photo brings the Fruit Stripe taste back to me instantly. The taste leaves me just as quickly, which makes the whole experience totally realistic because Fruit Stripe gum has only about five seconds of flavor in it. The disappointment of Fruit Stripe…
The Week in Review
In case you missed it, here’s what was on the blog this week. Monday: Leg jewelry. It’s coming. Don’t say I never told you! Tuesday: I don’t care what the critics say. I expect Jake Gyllenhaal to get an Oscar nomination for Southpaw. Wednesday: 14 years of marriage! Thursday: In 2008, I blogged about the…
Wendy Brandes Cat Jewelry in National Jeweler
Thanks to Cindy Edelstein for including me in Tuesday’s TrendTracker post for National Jeweler. This one was about pets. I’m represented by my FitzRoy the Cat ear climbers. How cute do these look on? You can get the FitzRoy climbers on my website here. Don’t forget that I also have FitzRoy earring jackets and birthstone…
Throwback Thursday: Eight Years of Blogging
Here’s something for Throwback Thursday: I started blogging eight years ago today. It’s my blogversary! My first post, published on July 23, 2007, was called “Just a placeholder” because I thought I was going to be too busy to devote any time to blogging. Two days later, I found out that Britney Spears had left…
Musical Interlude: Taylor Swift, Nicki Minaj and Miley Cyrus
I’ve been meaning to write about the Taylor Swift concert I attended on July 11, when I had to chaperone a major fangurl all the way to MetLife Stadium in New Jersey … … but I was lazy about getting all my concert photos watermarked. However, there’s no time like the present to get organized,…
Fourteen Years Ago Today
Happy anniversary, MrB! You can see some other wedding photos in my 10-year anniversary post. Or you can just hop over to Instagram to see a photo of the coolest wedding cake evah.