Collections Week: Navajo Jewellery
As some of you know, I am 1/8th Innu. I never come across Innu jewellery at the Value Village. Sometimes I’ll find some examples of Zuni style inlay or maybe the odd Hopi… Continue reading
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Mid Collections Week Modness: Sterling Toronto-Dominion Centre Charm
Since it’s Collections Week, I thought I’d share my future collection plans. I want to make a “Monsters of Modernism” charm bracelet, starting with this miniature model of Ludwig Mies van der Rohe‘s… Continue reading
Collections Week: Buch + Deichmann
In the eighties, I had a truckload of Buch + Deichmann barrettes. Not only do they look cool, but they are the only barrettes that would hold my locks in place. But hair… Continue reading
Collections Week: Bakelite Jewellery
I find myself with so much vintage stuff that I have amassed mini collections of stuff without even trying. So I thought I’d talk about some of my sets this week. At one… Continue reading
Mid Week Modness: Jean-Claude Darveau Necklace
I’ve written before about the great Canadian Modernist jewellery designers such as Robert Larin, de Passillé-Sylvestre, Guy (or Giles) Vidal and Rafael Alfandary. There’s one designer I haven’t written about before, although his… Continue reading
Deposé France French Celluloid Brooch
Found this cute ’lil French celluloid brooch lurking in a bag of broken jewelry at the Value Village. It’s actually two disks set on top of one another to create depth. The back… Continue reading
Sunday Shopping Coming Down
Sunday morning I decided to get out of the house early and do stuff before the Santa Clause Parade cleaved the city in two. I went to the St. Lawrence Antique Market, but… Continue reading
Silver Soviet Amber Ring
Two ring posts in a row? With all the attention being paid to Kate Middleton’s engagement ring, why not? This ring was made in the Soviet Union sometime between the end of WWII… Continue reading
Midweek Modness: Finnish Brass Ring
This ring pretty much encapsulates mid-century Finnish jewellery design. It has one foot in Bronze Age Viking brutalism plus a hippy dippy free form feeling. I don’t know who designed it — it’s… Continue reading
Do Over: Remembrance Day
I found a ceramic poppy earring. I took the earring post off and glued a pinback on the back. It fell off. I did it again. Hopefully it will hold up until November… Continue reading