Wednesday, May 8, 2013
Tweet May’s Jewels of the Month are a continuation of April’s theme: emoji. Emoji are the cute little pictures that can be used on phones in lieu of those sooooo old-fashioned emoticons. Last month I introduced five stud earrings inspired by the hand-gesture emoji. Four were official emoji: the okay sign, the thumbs up, the [...]
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Wednesday, April 10, 2013
Tweet I’m so thrilled! My emoji stud earrings — April’s Jewels of the Month — have been featured on Style.com! A great big … … goes out to Katharine K. Zarrella for writing the piece. You’ll notice it mentions that I made up the middle-finger emoji. When I was looking for a hand model for [...]
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Tuesday, April 2, 2013
Tweet If you’re keeping up on your social-media trends, you’ll have noticed emoticons are old news. Why use your keyboard to create rough versions of little pictures when you can just use little pictures? It’s all about emoji now. They hail from Japan — the source of many cute little things — but can now [...]
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Monday, March 11, 2013
Tweet Spring is around the corner, meaning ’tis the season for bouncy bunny jewelry. Bunny stud earrings are my jewels of the month for March. I’ve got bunnies in silver and gold, and you can buy them as pairs or singles. The first four bunnies sold before I could even get them on my website, [...]
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Friday, February 1, 2013
Tweet I bristle when I hear people complain that Valentine’s Day is a manufactured, consumerist holiday, then claim that THEY always express love with thoughtful gifts or acts on ordinary days. That would be lovely if it were true, but I suspect many of those folks of talking the talk, but not walking the walk. [...]
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Tuesday, January 15, 2013
Tweet When I was little, I played with small plastic animals rather than dolls. My favorites were the horses, but I was happy with anything: cows, pigs, elephants, lions, fish, whatever. I would line up the animals in my room and lecture them. In first grade, I frequently tried to sneak an animal to school [...]
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Monday, December 31, 2012
Tweet My Jewel of the Month posts highlight my newest jewelry designs — or, occasionally, existing designs that suit the season/holiday. Here’s what was hot in 2012. Click the photos to read the original posts. In January, I answered the question “Is it okay to mix metals?” with a resounding, “Hell, yeah!” February isn’t always [...]
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Tuesday, December 4, 2012
Tweet I got all excited about single stud earrings when I introduced my hashtag and “at sign” options in October. Single earrings were my passion in the ’80s, and I’ve been wanting to add them to my WENDYB by Wendy Brandes line for ages. I have several new single-earring designs coming out. I picked them [...]
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Friday, November 9, 2012
Tweet Yesterday’s Wall Street Journal had a story on how monogramming is hot for the holidays, so I took that as a sign that my new letter/punctuation mid-finger rings should be November’s Jewel of the Month! I gave you a sneak peek at these additions to my WENDYB by Wendy Brandes diffusion line last month. [...]
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Tuesday, October 16, 2012
Tweet Today is the 219th anniversary of Marie Antoinette’s execution by guillotine. I first created a ring in the French queen’s honor in 2008. Many of my jewelry designs are inspired by royalty, and no royal-themed collection is complete without an Antoinette piece. My ring, in the royal colors of purple and green, features a [...]
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