Kitsch a riffic!

All that chic modernism had me REALLY hankering for some cheesy seventies stuff.

All these puppies went up on Etsy, along with new Maneki Neko necklaces.

Endtroducing....

Confession time.

I have a latent modernist streak. I love vintage, romance, junk stores, scouring, scavenging. I'm not going anywhere. But sometimes more is more and sometimes less is more.

I'm also a beader at heart and I love beadweaving and I missed it so much lately that I have started another line:

Ensō

Ensō is a higher-end alternative to the costume line at bombalurina, utilizing precious metal, 22K plated glass cylinder beads and semiprecious gemstones. Take a fast peek -you'll be surprised.

I'm also blogging about my modernist adventures:

http://ensojewelry.blogspot.com

Loco Rococco

Pushing into more vintage revamps, I decided it was time to make this coro bracelet a part of something bigger and grander.

I love camo colors, olives greens and blacks. I wanted to do something that was both really outre and really sophisticated in palette.

This resulted.

I'm really pleased. It does lie right, it just wasn't at the time of shooting - I may re-take those. Such is the low-budget life of a designer with no model - camera at arms length might be proving a little too lazy-ass but I wanted to get it up on Etsy. I think my favorite part of this was the recognition that the brooch I just designed is the perfect focal for this. I also like the introduction of the blue stones, so it's not too monochrome.

My little chickadee

A recent revamp. Usually I'm about more-is-more. This is not one of those times.

It deserved a really nice goldfilled chain.

In other jewelry news, there's a cubic right angle weave breakdown in the latest step by step beads - normally not my favorite magazine. But this has me quite excited - I've tried to puzzle that out on my own to no avail.

PS I love you

Oh, whoever StumbledUpon bombalurina.bigcartel.com - I love you. Big internet kisses to the stumblers.

For those who have only gone through Etsy, I've put a small collection of my *slightly* less kitsch flavored pieces in one spot for you to check out. So far, quite popular - enjoy!

Pearls gone wild

I love catrocks approach to beads, gemstone, and otherwise pretty and precious things to make them exciting, bold, at times a little industrial, and much more substantial. In a sea of vapid starlets these stand out like Dietrich. Without being, like, "wow Joooolery" Long Island bold, either.

See see? Springy, tangy, outsize and yet totally sophisticated. I love.

purse pretties

Purse pretties

May 2nd, 2007

This is an interesting item. It’s a collaboration between me and hullabaloo.

I was doing a little intra-etsy networking and I came across this shop. I’d wanted to network with someone who makes purses and do something like this for quite a while - add my bead embroidery to a fine object made by someone who you know….sews things together not just sews millions of doodads onto backing, which is about all I can muster.

The potential for things like this is one reason I think I’m going to keep my etsy shop no matter what happens. I got to meet a really nice, fun artist in the Chicago area, I made something great, and she’s been kind enough to buy a couple of my necklaces.

In other news I’m a little antsy in the pantsy about a large order of sterling silver from HK. I’ve dealt with these people before and they are fab - the mail tracking shows that it left HK but no delivery (how is it that every country has less confusing post than we do???) so I’m assuming it’s being prodded in customs. Did I buy insurance? Like an idiot, I did NOT.

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