It's humid and blustery tonight. I'm reviving my love for The Tudors and thinking to myself, "I mean really, which one of Henry VIII six wives wouldn't have loved this ring?"
Empress ring by Polly Wales, 18k & london blue topaz, $1650
For Wife #1, or Wife #5. Whatever.
It's humid and blustery tonight. I'm reviving my love for The Tudors and thinking to myself, "I mean really, which one of Henry VIII six wives wouldn't have loved this ring?"
Empress ring by Polly Wales, 18k & london blue topaz, $1650
Barbra Streisand
Duck Sauce "Barbra Streisand" from Mr Goldbar on Vimeo.
I will admit, this video confuses the shit out of me, yet I am utterly compelled by it. It is like a video version of Vice Dos. Also, it's like a love letter to NYC. Coolest mother fuckin' city ever. (Sorry mom.)
The cruel seas.
| A woman's "memorial poesy ring" from 1592, made of gold and rock crystal. On the ring's inner surface is inscribed, "The cruel seas, remember, took him in November." Goosebumps, no? |
* From the NYT, via the ever lovely even*cleveland
New in store: Made Her Think
Not only is Made Her Think bonkers-stunning, the woman behind Made Her Think, Meredith Kahn (get it!?) is pretty bonkers-stunning herself. She happens to hail from the same fair isle that I do, and she came by the store today decked out in an array of her jewels that made me want to weep. We're also all a flutter about slave bracelets lately, and boy, do we have some special ones coming from the motherland of slave bracelets. By the by, I hate the term slave bracelet. Can we come up with a phrase less, horrible, to describe one of jewelry's great triumphs?
Wild, or cultured
Together at last, together forever. One of my favorite cards in the shop, and some of my favorite jewels in the shop. I'm a bit of a pearl-freak.Linea Carta My Pearl card, $6.50 (new in shop!) and Elizabeth Knight frog pearl earrings, $176
Santa, the shopgirl's standing date
This is only early if you don't work in retail. I love this new card by my friend Rose of The Great Lakes Goods, but it might be a little weird to use for Hanukkah.The Great Lakes Goods cards available in store
Splendor in the Grass
We're so proud of Rebekah Harris, aka Flotsam & Jetsam - check out her first cover! Rebekah's been working on the official High Times Medical Cannabis cup for ages. She's also got some real special Catbird exclusives in the works. What are they? Can't remember. Why? See above.
Fresh Daisies
We're hunting treasures for you, darlings. Today yielded the loveliest engagement rings, a drapey, fine, diamond studded bracelet-ring combo (Rony's already wearing one), piles of hats, leopard print pouches, Herkimer diamond studs by the handful. What will tomorrow bring?!
Italian truffle-hunter, 1966
Ssssnakes from Ssssst Kilda
Taxidermied snake from St. Kilda's collection and a diamond covered 18k white gold snake ring from St. Kilda's collection. Guess which one we sell.St. Kilda Endless Love ring with diamonds, $1705
Be Brave!
Bugs? Spiders? Big cities? Snakes? Birds?Face your fears.
Says I, the bigshot.
Perhaps if we saw what was ahead of us, and glimpsed the crimes, follies and misfortunes that would befall us later on, we would all stay in our mother’s wombs, and then there would be nobody in the world but a great number of very fat, very irritated women. -Lemony Snicket
beetle brooch with peridot $136, spiderwebs pressed in glass $33-110, NYC notebook $12, Yayoi Forest serpentine necklace $358, talon candlestick $53 (photo by Hollister Hovey)
What We Love Today: Saipua Basil Soap
Fall is coming so, farewell coconut! See you in 10 months. Welcome fall with a new bar of Saipua's basil soap, a deeply sexy autumnal blend of Hungarian basil topped with a touch of lime for levity.
Convictions
New to the online shop, from You and Me, The Royal We, partially masterminded by the mastermind behind Digby & Iona, Aaron Ruff. We Catbirds really like a man with tools to support a strong Moral Fortitude.This Machine Kills Fascists Pencil set, $22
Tape Me Up, Tape Me Down
Japanese rice tape, employed brilliantly at Merci, as photographed by Cheri of Scout Holiday. We've got some online, more in the store. Dangerous fun for tape-a-phobes, just plain fun for the rest of us.Japanese rice tape, $5 per roll
Things Organized Neatly
I have a deep love of organization, but not a great capacity for it. The Tumblr site, Things Organized Neatly, really revs my engine. (P.S. The bottom photo is pretty freakin' incredible - Dalton Ghetti carves the teensiest sculptures, in this case the alphabet, into pencil leads.)
Via AnOther
What We Love Today: Mini Flower Press
The ultimate thing I coveted but did not have as a girl. Sure, my complete works of Shakespeare got the job done, but undoing those little screws and tightening them back up again? So satisfying. The tiniest touch of labor (and the tiniest flower press.) Make a pre-teen's Anne of Green Gables dreams come true.mini flower press, $14
Happy Amazing Blonde Day.
Pretty great, right? Uma, Marilyn (and Abe!), Debbie & Meryl. Taken from this extremely rad collection of not-often-seen photos of celebrities.
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