Beads and beaded jewelry

Women Jewelry Designers – Hattie Carnegie

April 2, 2023

Women jewelry designers – Hattie Carnegie:   Hattie Carnegie was born in 1889 in Vienna, Austria-Hungary.  Her name at birth was Henrietta Kanengeiser. In 1892, her family immagrated to New York’s Lower East Side. Henrietta eventually got a job with Macy’s as a salesgirl, a position that promised a lot of mobility.  While working at…

International Women's Day 2023

Women’s Day is March 8

March 7, 2023

March 8 is International Women’s Day.  This day was created to recognize and celebrate the social, economic, cultural, and political achievements of women and girls world wide.  International Women’s Day was also intended to raise awareness of the progress made towards achieving gender equality. I recently read a wonderful article about one woman’s strength and…

A scene from New York City's Chinatown

The Chinese New Year

January 13, 2023

  The Chinese New Year is also known as the the Lunar New Year.  The Lunar New Year celebration is an ancient traditional festival known as “Guo Nian.”  It marks  the start of a new year and the beginning of spring according to the Lunar calendar.   The lunar calendar is based on moon cycles.…

The first birds I saw - January 1, 2023 - a titmouse, a dark eyed junco, and a mountain chickadee

Welcome to a New Year

January 5, 2023

  Welcome to a New Year   Here’s wishing everyone a healthy and and happy year ahead in 2023.    The new year is always about new beginnings and a a fresh start.   We don’t really start from zero, but the new year provides a great opportunity to shift course a bit.  If you are making changes,…

Earrings Sale

January Earrings Sale Event

January 5, 2023

  January Earrings Sale Event January 9 – 19.  Take 40% off all in stock earrings  (vintage jewelry not included).  Sale ends the end of the day on 1/19.  Message me if you experience any ordering issues

Silver tone screen brooch elements

Vintage Screen Brooch Elements

December 22, 2022

I have a bag of silver tone metal screen brooch elements for sale.   These are round brooch parts – domed top and a pronged back with a pin attached.  There are 18 tops and backs here. These are intended for beading or attaching small decorative elements.  Great for Holiday jewelry.  These are vintage items…

Coco perfume from Chanel

Women Jewelry Designers – Coco Chanel

October 24, 2022

Introduction This edition of Women Jewelry Designers focuses on Coco Chanel.  Coco Chanel was a style icon who was known for her simple yet sophisticated outfits that could be paired with her outstanding accessories.  Her trademark suits and little black dresses are timeless designs. The nickname Coco came from a brief stint as a singer.…

Fashion design - dress form in studio

Women Jewelry Designers – Elsa Schiaparelli

July 21, 2022

Elsa Schiaparelli was born in 1890. She was an Italian-born fashion designer who established an important couture house in Paris.  This couture house is still designing haute couture, jewelry, ready to wear, and fashion accessories.  Schaparelli was famous for her Surrealist fashions of the 1930s and for her witty accessories, such as a lucite collar…

Women in Science

Women in Science – Marie Rossiter

April 14, 2022

Smithsonian Magazine profiled Marie Rossiter in a recent article about women in science.  This is a great article on many levels and it’s an enjoyable read.  Marie was a graduate student at Yale in 1969.  She enrolled in a program on the history of science and discovered her male professors downplayed the role of women in…

My mother's Haskell like jewelry set

Women in Jewelry Design

March 18, 2022

Women in Jewelry Design is my new blog series profiling women who design jewelry.  Miriam Haskell is our first designer.  She was born in 1899 in Tell City, Indiana and attended Chicago University.  In the 1920s Haskell moved to New York and she opened a jewelry store in the McAlpin Hotel in 1926.