Take one cartoon character. Wilma Flintstone, courtesy of Hanna-Barbera Add white agate, gold and a dash of diamonds. Get one necklace. Wilma necklace in white agate, 18K rose gold and diamondsWilma necklace © Wendy Brandes 2007-2008 (Photo by John Muggenborg) Except it didn’t happen that way. In reality, I created a 19 millimeter gold ball…
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Sale on 14K Gold! Plus Coco!
I am in the mood to clean house . Rejoice, the cleaning mood comes but rarely. Ask my husband. Anyway, I have a few moderately priced 14K pieces that I did not design but did, of course, pick out personally to tempt my gorgeous clients. I only have one left of all of each of…
Thursday Book Club: Isabella the She-Wolf
I’m going to interrupt my series of posts on the six wives of Henry VIII, or “King Henry teh 8” as he is known to Googlers. I must write about Queen Isabella, because the necklaces I named for her have just been finished. Isabella, a daughter of Philip the Fair of France, was born in…
Perk Up Your Grey Wardrobe
I decided I needed a necklace to match all the grey that everyone will be wearing this fall. This is my Papessa Prayer Locket in 18K white gold and pink sapphires. Papessa Prayer Locket © Wendy Brandes 2007-2008(Photos by SquareMoose) The chain is 28″ long, so it will fit over your turtlenecks and chunky knits….
We Have a Winner!
Strawberry Necklace Design © Wendy Brandes 2007-2008Photo by John Muggenborg Congratulations to Susan Shaw of Sheffield, U.K., for winning my gold and ruby strawberry necklace on Girlie Gossip! If you didn’t win this time around, don’t despair! You can still pick your own strawberry here.
Strawberry Alert!
GirlieGossip, which is giving away my cute strawberry necklace, informs me the URL for the contest has changed due to a site redesign. Click here for the giveaway information! You still have a few days left to enter.
This Just In: Tiny Tortoise Locket
Diamond Tortoise Locket Necklace © Gigi Caron Ltd. 2007Photos by SquareMoose Photos of a new piece have arrived from the photographer. It’s the tiny tortoise locket. Above, you see it closed, and below it is open. The tortoise is 18K gold with a diamond and comes on a 16″ chain. When I was about three,…
Win a Strawberry!
Fun and friendly U.K. site Girlie Gossip is giving away one of my 18K gold strawberry pendants! Retail value is $990, so enter to win ASAP. Deadline is September 6.
Thursday Book Club: Pope Joan
It wasn’t my intention to recommend books that I haven’t read myself but in honor of one of my newest jewelry designs, I’ll do it. As I said in this post, according to legend, Pope Joan disguised herself as a man and led the Church for a brief time in the 850s. I did read…
Fruit Salad
Check out my new fruit pendants. The apple, cherry, strawberry, pomegranate, pineapple and grapes are guaranteed to always be in season. The apple is also featured on Uptown Liz. Uptown Liz is a shopping site created in the memory of Elizabeth Ann Overturf, who died in 2006 of breast cancer at only 28 years old….