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Monday, December 5, 2011

Most of my jewelry is inspired by queens. By queens, I’m referring to royal ladies — not one of New York City’s five boroughs or Quentin Crisp. I love badass women in general and when queens are badass, they are supa dupa badass. Seventh-century Chinese ruler Empress Wu,  for instance, said she would use a [...]

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Thursday, December 1, 2011

I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: I love redesigning old jewelry. Last month, I described how I started redesigning some of the pieces I got before I started my own jewelry line. My first project resulted in this tsavorite-and-pearl pendant. Sticking with the pearl theme, I next tackled a pair of diamond [...]

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Friday, April 29, 2011

Most days, I can’t haul my ass out of bed before the crack of noon, but I’m up to watch the royal wedding. Kate Middleton for the win, as this highlarious Tumblr puts it. For other royal merriment, follow Not Kate Middleton and Queen_UK on Twitter. I’ve been irked at some fashion police criticism of [...]

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Monday, March 14, 2011

One of my favorite wicked royal ladies is the 7th century’s Wu Zetian, the only female emperor of China. She became known as Empress Wu after her death, but she ruled under a name she chose for herself — Emperor Shensheng.  I wrote about her in 2007: Empress Wu, Part I Empress Wu, Part II [...]

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Wednesday, July 7, 2010

While on my way to Washington, D.C., last month for an interview with the hometown paper, I was browsing the vampire section of the airport bookstore when another book jumped out at me. Not literally, of course. It wasn’t an evil zombie book that was trying to kill me.  I just noticed it because the [...]

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Thursday, January 7, 2010

People who haven’t tried Twitter assume that it’s nothing but dull announcements of intake and output: “Making lemon bars…yum!” “I need to go pee.”*A  There’s a lot of that, but Twitter also can be very interactive and I’ve had great conversations there. Some of my favorite dialogues have been with a Twitterer who isn’t online [...]

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Thursday, August 6, 2009

I’m finally starting to see the results of my plan to take over the world: two hot celebrities are wearing WendyB-approved items this week. The first is Alexa Chung, the MTV It Girl who makes all the fashion bloggers’ hearts go pitter patter. She’s wearing the Matilda sword necklace from my jewelry line on page [...]

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Wednesday, April 22, 2009

Yesterday I neglected to celebrate the 500-year anniversary of the day that my dear friend, Henry VIII (also known on the internets as Henry teh 8), acceded to the English throne. Handsome! I doubt I would have remembered at all if gorgeous blogger Princess Poochie hadn’t sent me a story about one of Henry’s love [...]

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Tuesday, February 24, 2009

Browns has some edgy designs from Boudicca and Gareth Pugh on sale. Boudicca shirt with batwing sleeves Now 140 pounds, down from 460. Gareth Pugh paneled, zip-front dressNow 255 pounds, down from 505. One of you avant-garde fashion bloggers definitely needs to get the Gareth Pugh jodhpur sweat pants. There are a few of you [...]

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Thursday, February 5, 2009

Need a gift for a guy? These are my latest men’s designs. Click the pictures for more information. Juana Skull Cufflinks© Wendy Brandes Bat Cufflinks© Wendy Brandes If you want the story of Juana la Loca, the inspiration for the skull cufflinks, click here. The bat cufflinks were originally a special order for gorgeous blogger [...]

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