To Covet: Cocktail Rings
I’ve been hunting for a piece of “statement jewelry” for years. I finally found my match on my last birthday: it’s a gold and copper sandstone ring, which I nabbed for just a few dollars at an out-of-the-way vintage shop.
What you can’t see from the crappy photos – which my broken camera and I apologize [...]
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Scorned Gypsies
My sense of fashion has been wandering lately. Like a rogue traveler, it can’t seem to stay in one place: I’ve been pairing my feminine, frilly things with deconstructed jeans, my Grecian dresses with motorcycle boots. It’s an experimental phase that has brought some of my most neglected pieces to the forefront as I put them together in [...]
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A Little Vintage Glamour
When I was little, I never got into my mom’s makeup, or even her daytime clothes. Instead, I went straight for the silk, the classic pumps, the vintage jewelry. At my grandmother’s house, I’d run my fingers over the heirloom lingerie, handed down from generation to generation, treasured by every woman that received it. While [...]
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Calmly Melancholy
When I am faced with something upsetting, I don’t depress or crawl into a hole. I ramp up; I stress out; I panic.
My brain is very, very good to me, however, because every time the winds change and I start to get anxious, I gravitate to calming influences. I’m drawn to colors that flatter my mood – [...]
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Beautiful, Dirty, Rich
You know what I’m really, really into right now? Things that don’t go together. Not in the “stripes and plaid” way – or the “eighties and anything else please stop with the eighties” way…more in the “casually glamorous” way.
It’s about being feminine and pretty, but still tough enough to get grit under your nails:
Tee shirts [...]
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Sustainable Sales: 25% Off at Tobi.com
I hate it when marketing works on me.
Online boutique Tobi sent me an email this morning, telling me to “get caught under the mistletoe in something extra special” by using their 25% off coupon code – CAUGHT25 – to buy some sort of pretty, romantic holiday wear. So, of course, my mind drifted off to a movie-like [...]
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Sustainable Sales: Anzie Jewelry
It’s not all about organics and mineral makeup…sometimes it’s about other kinds of sustainability. Anzie Jewelry isn’t “green,” per se, but it is a conscious shopping choice, and it’s beautiful.
“Anzie Jewelry began in 1999 as a family-run workshop in Montreal, Quebec. Founder Anzie Stein began designing jewelry after learning her husband was diagnosed with cancer. [...]
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Get Green Gifts: Etsy Holiday Shopping, Part II
There were so many great Thanksgiving Weekend sales on Etsy that, just after finishing yesterday’s post, I started this one! You’ll still want to peruse the list of holiday weekend offers – there’s no way I could list all of the good ones – but I would like to mention a few of my favorites.
Pure [...]
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Get Green Gifts: Etsy Holiday Shopping
Though I’m not a fan of just perusing online boutiques as a passtime, I make an exception for Etsy.
For those of you that have been living under a rock (that can’t be comfortable, can it?), Etsy’s moniker is “Buy, Sell, and Live Handmade.” Their goal is to connect makers with buyers, therein removing all of [...]
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Eco-Friendly Stocking Stuffers (Part II)
In the last edition of Eco-Friendly Stocking Stuffers, I forgot to mention that there are tons of December holidays that incorporate tiny (but thoughtful!) presents. I’ve seen many a friend agonize about their partner’s Hanukkah gifts, or quibble about what the better solstice present would be. So don’t be too offended, non-Christian readers – the [...]
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