{"id":2646,"date":"2009-10-18T14:56:05","date_gmt":"2009-10-18T18:56:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/blog\/?p=2646"},"modified":"2009-10-19T18:14:43","modified_gmt":"2009-10-19T22:14:43","slug":"youre-invited-to-a-sample-sale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2009\/10\/youre-invited-to-a-sample-sale\/","title":{"rendered":"You&#8217;re Invited to a Sample Sale"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In New York later this week? Come visit me at my sample sale this Friday, October 23, from 5 PM to 8 PM, and Saturday, October 24, from 12 PM to 6 PM. It&#8217;s being hosted by the fabulous people at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boconcept.us\/\" target=\"_blank\">BoConcept<\/a>, which is at 105 Madison Avenue and 30th Street.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_2647\" style=\"width: 550px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/sample-sale-invitation.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2647\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2647 \" title=\"sample sale invitation\" src=\"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/sample-sale-invitation.jpg\" alt=\"sample sale invitation\" width=\"540\" height=\"433\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/sample-sale-invitation.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/sample-sale-invitation-300x240.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 540px) 100vw, 540px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2647\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Click once to pop up, again to zoom in.<\/p><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">I will be selling my <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\" target=\"_blank\">18K gold, platinum and silver jewelry<\/a>. The Brungers (menswear and jewelry designers) and Caroline Cameron (baby clothing designer) will be there, as will my designer friend <a href=\"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/blog\/category\/zang-toi\/\" target=\"_blank\">Zang Toi<\/a>. You know you want to meet Zang! Everything will be marked down from 30% to 80% off retail, so bring your friends.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">If you&#8217;re not in New York or just can&#8217;t make the sale, email me at wbjewelry at hotmail dot com before Sunday and I&#8217;ll give you the sale price on any in-stock item, including the <a href=\"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/pro-detail.php?colid=34&amp;collect=true&amp;id=463\" target=\"_blank\">Wendy Brandes for Francis swear rings<\/a>. I&#8217;ll also be selling the <a href=\"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/pro-detail.php?colid=28&amp;collect=true&amp;id=185\" target=\"_blank\">Diana ring<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/pro-detail.php?colid=28&amp;collect=true&amp;id=244\" target=\"_blank\">Juana Peekaboo Skull Ring<\/a> that I&#8217;m wearing on my index fingers in this photo by gorgeous blogger <a href=\"http:\/\/the-coveted.com\/blog\/\" target=\"_blank\">Jennine of The Coveted<\/a>. (The other two rings in the photo are my own engagement and wedding rings. You don&#8217;t get to buy those.)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<div id=\"attachment_2658\" style=\"width: 337px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/wendy3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2658\" class=\"size-large wp-image-2658  \" title=\"wendy(3)\" src=\"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/wendy3-682x1024.jpg\" alt=\"Photo by Jennine Tamm Jacob\" width=\"327\" height=\"491\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/wendy3-682x1024.jpg 682w, https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/wendy3-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/wendy3.jpg 750w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 327px) 100vw, 327px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2658\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo by Jennine Tamm Jacob<\/p><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Speaking of Zang Toi and photos, a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chinapress.com.my\/topic\/family05\/default.asp?dt=2009-10-18&amp;art=20091018main.txt\" target=\"_blank\">Malaysian paper that did an article on him<\/a> borrowed two photos of us together from this blog! I&#8217;m psyched to be famous in Malaysia, but I do believe that MrB is owed two photo credits.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">UPDATED TO ADD: In response to some comments: I got the striped Sonia Rykiel top after gorgeous Kate of Make Do Style <a href=\"http:\/\/makedostyle.blogspot.com\/2009\/08\/end-of-summer.html\" target=\"_blank\">pointed it out<\/a>. Thanks for the inspiration, Kate! And Duchesse of <a href=\"http:\/\/passagedesperles.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Passage des Perles<\/a> noticed that I wear my wedding ring on my right hand. People often remark on that. It&#8217;s because my engagement and wedding rings are very chunky and I can&#8217;t fit them both on one finger, so one of them has to be worn on the other hand. I got the engagement ring first, natch, so that got first choice, which was the left hand. There&#8217;s no symbolism behind which ring is on which hand. It was just an issue of what real estate was available at the time.<\/p>\n<p> <\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In New York later this week? Come visit me at my sample sale this Friday, October 23, from 5 PM to 8 PM, and Saturday, October 24, from 12 PM to 6 PM. It&#8217;s being hosted by the fabulous people at BoConcept, which is at 105 Madison Avenue and 30th Street. I will be selling&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2009\/10\/youre-invited-to-a-sample-sale\/\">Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2647,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[12,41,106,137,66],"tags":[274,273],"class_list":{"0":"post-2646","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-blogs-and-bloggers","8":"category-pictures-of-me","9":"category-sale","10":"category-things-to-do-in-nyc","11":"category-zang-toi","12":"tag-boconcept","13":"tag-china-press","14":"entry"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2646","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2646"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2646\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2669,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2646\/revisions\/2669"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2647"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2646"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2646"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2646"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}