boned and dethroned

Honestly, what I've wanted, more than all of the jewelry I've featured, is these rings from the Bone Room, a store in Berkeley. They've been sold out for so long I'm ready to die over it. I guess they don't have a manufacturer anymore (?), not sure, not the point. The point is that I PINE for these rings. PINE, I tell you.

Another piece from the site, an anteater vertebrae & rib bracelet, I've largely ignored because of the other picture on the site was so unappealing. But this picture is much better: it shows two of the bracelets interlocked together, and I want it too, especially after having just bought vertebrae friendship necklaces with my friend Paris, and these interlock into each other too. I don't own a bracelet (literally, not a one), so these could be some excellent investment pieces for me.

source: the bone room

harakiri

I saved these in my fashion folder about a month ago with nothing remotely helpful as a title to help me remember where I found them. Thanks to some frantic searching of my browser history I managed to track it down: Harakiri, whose work I've written about before (double-ended mouse skull bangle, anyone?), available at NotJustALabel. Although I think the things above are supposed to be earrings (?), I think they'd function best as brooches. Ahhh, I can just picture one on my lapel right now... Apparently my fascination with dead-stuff jewelry will never die.

color me obsessed

Hand ring by Daphne Guinness and Shaun Leane
from the Sunday Times Style Magazine, 21 October 2007

source: the fashion spot

part deux: snakes

Katrina Lapenne. Snakes are a classic jewelry motif and I have a fairly unhealthy obsession with snake jewelry. Other examples:



Zoe and Morgan. I Really like their pieces, especially the ring. Incidentally, the piece on the left is a bangle and the piece on the right is the ring.

Gara Danielle, also featured on my-wardrobe, with similar snake earrings

Keerstin Wintrup is getting gobs of blog love lately for her woven snake bracelets.

Boucheron also has a few snake pieces as part of its Extravagant Bestiary collection . There are a few other pieces, but I like these best. I wish the necklace didn't have the circle/pendant thing behind the snake, it would look much better to just have an enraged, hissing, writhing snake hanging around your neck, in my opinion.


sources: catbirdny, my-wardrobe.com, vivre, johnnyrain.blogspot.com