cute things

rings
Originally uploaded by missbombalurina.

Playing with vintage plastics here. Looks like Bombalurina will be doing the design fiesta as part of the Sound Unseen festival. Which is, amazingly, my first real show. I'm kind of freaking out about setup, inventory, promos and all that stuff. It's a month away. I'll post about it more.

So today easter eggy pastel cute. These are vintage button based rings with other vintage plastics, and I'm flagellating myself for not buying more of the button bases while I could.

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Originally uploaded by Temeculamom.

From my flickr friend's photostream. No it's not jewelry, it's just a drive by cuteness. So there.

what I did today

I'm gearing up for a possible wholesale deal. I'm not holding my breath, but it is making me revisit my cuff bracelets more seriously. Here's today's delight.

The cameo is a whopper - 55mm in diameter! So this is like some super hero power band thing.
Fully loaded and fully embroidered. Quite a bit of work.

MissMishMish

I've been promising to do some more in depth coverage of a couple of people whose work REALLY stands out for me - Yasmin Bochi, a designing powerhouse of only 24 years of age, responsible for yasminbochi.etsy.com, yasminbochi.com and the awesome blog Miss Mish Mish is the feature for today. She is based in Belgium and studies art science - and her grasp of art history and the richness of textile design history are really evident in her pieces.

yasminbochi.com is an amazing source for really one of a kind items. Yasmin's interest is vintage items and vintage imagery and customization with artwork and contemporary image transfer process. The thing I find most remarkable is that this stuff is very painterly, very lush, but retains a very modern contemporary here-and-now feel - it manages to be romantic but totally ducks the trap of boring sentimentality because it's so darn *interesting* to look at.

Here's a favorite of mine. Yes, it's not jewelry, but this is my puppet universe and I love bags:




So lovely!

Here's a link to the gallery page of bags on yasminbochi.com
and one to the jewelry page which is filled with stylish starlets and little Russian counting dolls.

I hope you love looking at these pieces as much as I do.

Cameos from my stash

I'm busy pulling cameos out of my stash and finding new and great ways to show them off. It's not Gramma's cameo jewelry.

This one sits on a strand of vintage resin pearls that I strung - giant 10MM ones (Wilmaaaaaa!)

The other focal is a lovely enamel brooch, also vintage, in nice shape. (I had to sacrifice the pinback for the sake of art here)

Another cameo presentation:

This one also shares space with a vintage pin, a rhinestone-and-brass number, as well as a vintage birthday card clipping under acrylic, a really sweet hand-assembled charm that I thought added some interest.