Dream Date: Björk in Black, With Berries in Her Hair.

Lets eat necklaces for breakfast, washed down with some white wine. 

-Leigh

Photo by Juergen Teller

So Happy Together

We love this romantic stack. Classic and timeless with a whole lot of sparkle. Perfect for a special summer evening under the stars, is there anything better?

Katie Diamond Sabrina Ring in 14k Yellow Gold, $2,185.00
J. Lingnau Zora Ring in 14k Yellow Gold, $830.00

<3 A

What We Love Today: Summer Hair

No silly - not the frizzy kind. The messy, clumpy, I-spent-the-day-at-the-beach kind. Except better smelling.

- Rony

Captain Blankenship Mermaid Sea Salt Spray, $22

The Violet Ghost, or What I'll be Doing this Weekend.

The Violet Ghost:
2 oz. Bulldog gin
3/4 oz. Royal Rose Lavender Syrup
1/2 oz. freshly squeezed lemon juice

Combine syrup and lemon juice in a pint glass or jam jar. Add 4 or 5 ice cubes and then the gin.  Shake vigorously and serve straight up or on the rocks. Top with seltzer water.

(recipe from Royal Rose)

-Leigh

Royal Rose Lavender-Lemon Syrup, $11
available in store and at www.catbirdnyc.com

Famous Lovers: Briar Rose and her Prince.

Some rose red rubies, to wake the sleeping Briar Rose from her hundred-year slumber...

-Leigh

Teensy Ruby Ring by Bittersweets, $195 in store and online at www.catbirdnyc.com

Dream Date: Denishawn Dancers.

Get your groove on, girlfriends. Personally, I'm not much for dancing, though I'm ballerina-mad, and I've been doing Ballet Beautiful exercise videos for the last 4 days, so, I'd say I'm nearly a professional.

-Leigh

Denishawn Dancers, circa 1920

Drum Roll, please!

Thank you all so very much for taking the time to share your super special beauty secrets with us - we are taking a few and adding them to our beauty routines! 

Congratulations to the following kittens:
Allison Evans, Kitty Blackwell, Lauren Thomann Hughes, Elizabeth Schneider, Sheena Mariee! Please email correy@catbirdnyc.com to receive your jar of Egyptian Magic Cream! 

*Please visit our website for the full rules of the giveaway. If winners have not contacted the above email by Monday, June 10 at 10am Catbird will forfeit the prize to this winner and Catbird reserves the right to select an alternate winner.

The Most Magical Mermaid of them all.

Farewell, Esther Williams.

-Leigh

Catbird x Egyptian Magic Giveaway

If there are two things us kittens adore it is a good skin cream and a top secret beauty tip - so we teamed up with our friends at Egyptian Magic to give five of our friends a chance to win their very own jar of cult favorite, Egyptian Magic Cream! To let you know just how magical it is, most of us are on our third application by noon each day.

How to win:
    1. Comment on this blog post with your favorite beauty secret.
    2. Like both Catbird and Egyptian Magic on Facebook for an extra chance to win.
    3. Check back to this post on Friday, June 7 at noon to see the announced winners!

Good luck, kittens, we cannot wait to read your beauty secrets! xx

Full contest rules here.

So Happy Together

Hey birdies! You're bespectacled lady Anna here! After working with our lovely customers to create some beautiful combinations of engagement rings and wedding bands, I have been inspired to share some of my favorite stacks with you. Above is my favorite off-beat stack that would make any bride blush!

Lauren Wolf Pyramid Ring in 14k Rose Gold, $798.00

J. Lingnau Nora Ring in 14k Rose Gold, $430.00

Also pair with Nick Ring ($790.00) from J. Lingnau for your man and husband to be!

xo, Anna 

Dream Date: Tuesday Weld and the American Road.

It's time for strawberries, wicker bags, and long drives down Main Street in a convertible. Or, long rides across town in the subway.

-Leigh

Tuesday Weld by Dennis Hopper, 1965

TGIF, kittens.

xo Leigh

still from The Girl on a Motorcycle

What We Love Today: Old Glamour Mixed with New

Last night I had the privilege of seeing Woody Allen and his Dixieland band at The Carlyle. It was delightfully fancy and quite thrilling - but I think the star of the show might have been the hotel itself.

Dorothy Draper (no relation to Don) knew a thing or two about glamour. And shininess!

Was this fine gentleman in The Shining?

A detail from the mural in Bemelmans Bar (by Ludwig Bemelman, of Madeline fame).

I wish I had a big, sparkly, glamorous necklace to wear to suit the occasion. This Lady Grey Triple Vex piece would have done nicely.

xo

Rony

Famous Lovers: Wilbur and Charlotte.

Because the love of one beautiful gray spider really can save the life of a Terrific, Humble, Radiant pig.

-Leigh

Charlotte's Diamond Web ring by Jennie Kwon, $420 in store and online

Weekday Musical Pick-Me-Up

Perhaps moody, Scottish songs are not everyone's idea of a pick-me-up, but watching this documentary on Belle & Sebastian has made me re-fall in love with them. If you haven't recently, I recommend turning on If You're Feeling Sinister as soon as possible.

I can't wait to see them in Prospect Park this summer, despite how I feel about daytime/outdoor music. (Blech.)

xo
Rony

Hey, Mrs. Timberlake!

We like your look! Kayleen McAdams shares her beauty secrets to achieving the Patti Smith inspired look Jessica Biel wore to the Met Ball - including her rad septum ring. For the record, we think Miss Biel ahh-hm Mrs. Timberlake can pretty much do no wrong.

Sterling Silver Ear Cuff, $38.

Have a great weekend!

Louis Armstrong playing to his wife at the pyramids of Giza. 

Lunch Lady: GOING PLACES!

My trip to Tulum, Mexico with a couple of very good friends. Here's what had happened and here's what I ate.

Welcome to AeroMexico! Our flight left at 7am so they gave us breakfast. Here you see a tiny omelet, some bread that no one ate,  5 tater tots, some tomato juice (that was later paired with vodka because it was free and I am not a very good flier) and the world's hottest coffee ever. The coffee was actually very good but we hit turbulence and then it was just a plane full of people desperately trying to lap up their scalding hot beverages before they got a chance to spill all over the place. My friend Brittany was wearing white jeans and I was very nervous for her.

We stayed in a bungalow on the beach and ate this ^ every morning at the hotel's restaurant. And it was FREE. I forget what name they gave it but it was Huevos Rancheros with scrambled eggs instead of fried. It also came with guacamole, black beans, tomato, cucumber, orange juice, coffee, one million corn tortillas, and (of course) some delicious tropical fruit that I am unfortunately allergic to :'(

While we were there I took every opportunity to beef up my spanish. I was pretty relentless and eventually even the waitress made fun of me saying that breakfast time had become a spanish class because of all my questions about the menu. It was hands down the best food I've ever had. 

Coming back home to make my own breakfast sucked. It really really sucked. Hard boiled eggs and Melba Toast? I nearly cried.

p.s. Mantequilla is butter. Who knew.

The place where we stayed was within walking distance to the Mayan Ruins. Now, when I say "within walking distance" I mean it was crazy crazy hot, everyone's directions were "walk down the beach and then make a left and then you can get there" and we wished we had bikes. But as luck should have it we were in Mexico so any kind of complaining was just ridiculous and strongly frowned upon. 

 It was so incredibly beautiful. I snuck into a tour group for a couple of minutes to learn some stuff about sacrificing people or whatever but it was soooo busy! We even made sure to go right when it opened but it was still overrun. Either way it was very interesting and I would like to go again with a personal guide.

I imagine it to be something very special without all that clutter <3

Here is Coqui Coqui! It's a perfumery in Tulum that is also a Hotel and an amazing amazing restaurant. Photographed here is the burger I had and part of my thumb. I got a burger because whatever, I don't know. It was probably a bad idea anyway because no one knew what "rare" meant and the only word I could think of to describe what I wanted in spanish was "sangre" and that is just a creepy thing to run around saying to people when you're talking about dinner. 

For example:

Me- "can I have it rare?"

Waiter- "I don't know what is rare"

Me- "bloody"

Waiter- "I'm sorry"

Me- "Sangre" *Blood

Turns out I can make people uncomfortable all over the world.

I also drank Tequila and lime. It was fantastic and I had a ton of it.

Anyway, my friends got amazing salads with fresh seafood and the most ripe avocados the earth has ever seen. Scott also got a carafe of Sangria that was full of fresh fruit and could've lasted a fortnight for someone who wasn't on vacation. 

On my last day I got on a plane and ate this. A "turkey" and cheese sandwich with some kind of  coffee flavored flan-ish dessert, another makeshift bloody mary, and a pretty decent tiny salad. We watched Jack Reacher which was almost as bad as Gigli and then they turned off the movie like 30 minutes before it ended! So now I have to see it all over again to figure out how Tom Cruise gets the girl back from the fingerless Siberian psycho.

That was my trip.

I hope you enjoyed it

<3 Ash

Famous Lovers: The Little Prince and his rose.

A reminder for her of his inter-planetary love, as he set out on his travels.

-Leigh

Catbird Tiny Dancer Earrings, sold individually, prices start at $28

Alternative Engagement Rings

We agree, Refinery29, this sparking ring is sure to make you one of the coolest brides ever.

Yayoi Forest, Lucky Seven Diamond Ring, $620.

Spring demon.

Rainy days this May, and I've got a big pile of books to tend to, so sunshine, you take your time.

-Leigh

still from Labyrinth, that I nicked from somewhere but I can't remember, I'm sorry.

Anatomy of a Stack: Wake up!

It's a new day.  And I'm still obsessed with Yayoi Forest's new Dawn Ring.  

This stack is a slap across the face of joy and diamonds if you ask me. 

From the top: Yayoi Forest Dawn Ring, $390, 

New Catbird Fairy Light Eternity Bands in 14k Rose and White Gold, $1,300, 

Blanca Monros Gomez 14k Rose Gold Flat Band with 14 Black Diamonds, $710,  

Blanca Monros Gomez 18k Yellow Gold Little Pronged Solitaire, $725.

-ak

How We Wear It: Honorary Bird Sarah!

This Mother's Day our bird, Rachel, gifted her big sis and honorary bird, Sarah, with this incredible new mama stack. We saw it and all immediately swooned. Sarah wears a mixture of threadbares, twisted stackers and an Opal Teardrop snuggled up with an N Alphabet Ring for her new son, Nate.

Threadbare, $44. Opal Teardrop Ring, $198. Twisted Stacker, $74. Alphabet Ring, $96.

Who What Wear Editors' Picks

Thanks Who What Wear for including our Chained to my Heart Earrings in your Editors' Picks!!

Most of us birdies wear our Chained to my Heart Earrings on the daily and we wanted to let you know, Liz, that you can join the Catbird gang at any time!! Most of us (okay, possibly just me) can't stop day-dreaming about getting a second piercing just to continue to wear these beauties on the daily with a second stud behind. Le sigh..someday. xx coco

Dream Date: Camille Bidault-Waddington

French stylist Camille Bidault-Waddington has got buttoned-up sex appeal oozing out of her long sleeves and high collar. This lady knows how to be a lady.

-Leigh

photo via RDuJour

Far from a Tomboy

We can never resist posting about the lovely Kelly Framel! We adore her for a long list of reasons, one of them being the way she effortlessly piles on her golden jewels and just like us she never takes her staple pieces off!

Get Kelly's First Knuckle Ring look right this way, Tomboy First Knuckle Ring!

The Zoe Report!

Catbird First Knuckle Rings, Tomboy shown above, chosen as one of the The Zoe Report's Favorite Midi Rings!

Shop First Knuckle Rings.

Mother's Day Gift Guide

A major thank you to New York Magazine Shop-a-matic for choosing three of our most favorite gifts for their Mother's Day Gift Guide!

Rosy Blooms Mom Card, $5.

You are My Moon and Stars Stackable Necklace, beginning at $48.

Heart Ring, $96

Mother's Day is Sunday so if you're local and still shopping for your mom select "pick up in store" at checkout! Not Local? Make it quick and painless, send your mama a Catbird Gift Certificate directly to her inbox!

Dream Date: The Coolest of the Cool, and I don't even like Cool.

In the line up: the Mulleavy sisters (Rodarte), Kirsten Dunst, and the Fanning sisters. Game over.

-Leigh

photo from Rodarte's Instagram feed

Brooklyn Magazine Gift Guide

As we all know, hopefully, Mother's Day is this Sunday - if you're in Brooklyn and are still searching for gift ideas, Brooklyn Magazine has made it ultra easy for you but putting together the top 10 Brooklyn Mother's Day Gifts including our very own You Are my Moon and Stars Stackable Necklace!

Shop You are My Moon and Stars - Stackable Necklace.