25 Days of Jewelry-Day 7

Lime Dream Charm Bracelet by Kendra of Jewelry Creations
Sure I dream of limes. Don't you? Although, usually my limey dreams almost always involve me pelting someone with a lime but it should still count right?
A very cute piece, lots of texture and limey goodness and no limes were injured in the making of this bracelet and most likely nobody was injured either from any random lime peltings. Right?
Pick this up for $37.50 along with some Corona and real limes and you'll be set.

A word about our Artist: Now Kendra doesn't care for Corona, she favours Pink Squirrels and likes to carve the profiles of past Presidents out of raw white potatoes. Hopefully not while drinking Pink Squirrels though.

25 Days of Jewelry-Day 6

Basketweaving 101

That's a much better name for that piece. Better than Basketweave in Gold and Silver. Booooooooooooringggg. My fingers hurt just looking at this piece by Ami Gail Designs, I'm also peeved cause it totally blows my Curly Cuff Bracelet out of the water and for that I must go knock her down. I wonder how much of a suck up a friend had to be to be deserving of such an excellent bracelet? Probably $150 worth of suck up...oh well. Good luck with that Ami!

And now, a word about our Artist:
Ami is a very talented and creative individual, also very generous.
She spends the majority of her time planning and constructing habitat homes for orphaned mosquitoes and horseflies and has quite an impressive sub division built. The rest of her time goes to sculpting prosthetic legs for all the frog amputees in her neighbourhood, (she lives two blocks down from a French restaurant that serves frog legs) and boy are they grateful. I see a Noble Peace Prize in her future for sure!

25 Days of Jewelry-Day 5

I had a hard time selecting a piece from The Vintage Jewelry Box, she has so many funky-freaky pieces but I think these re purposed garter clips are about the most inventive things I've ever seen! Definitely good for a double take! I say grab some and wear it to a PTA meeting or a church pot luck and see what turns up...I'm just twisted that way. She insists that the garters have never been worn and that's cool however, what's she doing with a pile of garter clips in the first place? Has she stocked up in anticipation of something or has she scouted around town gathering them all up? And furthermore, if she has indeed gone out and procured them, did she acquire them all at once in one place no doubt drawing a fair amount of attention or did she just kind of go about inconspicuously secreting them away? No matter, I'll entertain myself with my own answer. For $39.50 maybe you can have your answer too.

More about our Artist: When Madam is not scurrying about, rooting through the laundry rooms of local bordellos (for fashion ideas only of course), she's using acrylics to paint the St Louis Arch in Pointillism with her toes no less. She says it frees up her hands to practice for the Don Ho Championship try-outs with her Ukulele. Talented and a multi-tasker.

25 Days of Jewelry-Day 4

I never get tired of chainmaille pieces.
This one from CmyDesings is titled "Lab Work". I would seriously not recommend wearing this in a Laboratory. You could get caught in some machine with sharp pokeys and moving metal part things with the grinding and the mechanical noises and then there's beaker breakage and gooey neon liquid spillage and suddenly you're the Incredible Shrinking Woman and now you have this big honkin ass chainmaille necklace that you can no longer wear, but you just had to fucking wear it to the lab today didn't ya?!

Anyways.

Oh look, it's got a matching bracelet!

So she says that it's a one of a kind piece and can be handed down for generations.
Nahuh I don't think so...I'm taking it with me. Watch me.
For $250 they can pry it out of my cold, dead fingers.

And now, a word about our Artist:
Ms Lynn, with her perfect Soccer mom hair can be seen most days leisurely taking her Dingo dog for a stroll, who by the way really ate someones baby; and is sporting a fetching handmade dog lead, completely encrusted in Swarovski crystals created by our very own Lynn.

25 Days of Jewelry-Day 3

Monday's designer is Art Made by Tammy, again how nice am I to supply you with a link?
Today we are looking at these teeny eeny tiny painted pendants. Look, just click on the link okay? I just looked at the measurements of these things.

Measures 1 1/2" by 2 1/4" by 3/16"

Holy shit are you kidding me!!!? She must be a Pixie or something. I like to imagine that she's using an itty bitty easel and a mouse's tail as a paintbrush...poor mouse. As well as being schweet ass pendants I bet they'd make really neato Christmas tree ornaments, which of course you'd have to have like hundreds of to decorate a tree with but it'd be the coolest tree ever! Although I'm thinking that if you ordered hundreds of these it'd either float her boat or she'd come after me with some needle nosed pliers for even suggesting such a thing so maybe you should check first. Either way, they're only $19 so you could get a few and decorate like a midget tree or a houseplant.











About our Artist: Ms Tammy likes to bird watch and flick white chocolate chips across park benches at total strangers.

25 Days of Jewelry-Day 2

So today's jewelry review goes to bDazzlingCreations and you can go check out her Etsy shop with the link that I just so conveinantly provided you with.
Today we are looking at her Flutter By Bracelet which I dig the shit out of. I love Amazonite and I think that's a Flourite Butterfly but SHE DIDN'T SAY so I'm going to draw my own conclusions! This is a very nice, "I'm going off to the office in a sweater and jeans cause it's casual day." bracelet. And it's only $26, so move on it ya tightwads!

And now, a little about the designer. Our gal enjoys guzzling coffee and builds fully functional cup castles out of empty Starbucks coffee cups. Her favourite colour is Peuce and when she's not working on jewelry she can be found in the park entertaining children with her sock monkey puppet show.

25 Days of Jewelry-Day 1

So in an effort to promote goodwill and retail sales of my own jewelry and that of friends and whomever else, I have taken it upon myself to give my personal review of 25 different pieces of jewelry and their creator. And yes including my own! It is my blog after all, get your own damn blog if you think it's unfair.

And to demonstrate just how far my favouritism runs...I'll start with one of my own pieces!

The Curly Q Cuff
Every model citizen needs at least one cool ass cuff bracelet and here is my contribution to society. Heavy gauge Sterling Silver, hammered until my ears rang then curled at the ends. Yes it's that simple, course no where in here does it say that I very nearly broke my pliers getting the damn thing curled or that I spent two hours sanding, filing, polishing, buffing and THEN it went into the tumbler for eight hours! No where does it say that anywhere does it?
Well it does now.
Comes in three different sizes with three different prices...it's only fair.
Sm/Petite Wrist $94; Med/Average Wrist $104; Lg/Large Wrist $114
Read more about it or just buy it here! Curly Q Cuff on Etsy