Posts Tagged ‘shopping’

I Heart It.

Thursday, January 8th, 2009

Ever since the first time I stumbled upon Supermarket HQ, I’ve been in love with the jewelry of Melanie Favreau. I’ve been doing my best to try to avoid going on any more jewelry buying shopping sprees, and keeping my purchases to (very) cheap items, but I can feel my strength withering. These earrings are too much for me to handle… I need to have them.

Heart Beat earrings by Melanie Favreau

and that’s just the first item in her shop I don’t want to live without… There are several more I’d love to have as well.
Click to see a few others.
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Miju Necklaces

Sunday, December 7th, 2008

I came across these Miju jewelry pieces a couple weeks ago and have kept the link open on my firefox the entire time, going back to them every few days to yet again internally debate whether or not I should buy them… For now, I’ve decided to just post them here to remember how much I love them, and maybe someday in the next few months, that strong spending feeling will catch up with me and I’ll order one. Or someone really, really awesome will buy them for me instead (preferably one of the white necklaces thanks!).
Furni Miju Necklace
Furni Miju Necklace 2
Furni Miju Necklace 3

Etsy Find: ES Designs

Monday, March 31st, 2008

I’m thinking of making this a weekly feature since I love Etsy so much. For those that don’t know about, it’s an online marketplace where people can sell their handmade objects – from jewelry to photography, clothing to notecards. Some items are vintage recreations/finds while others are entirely handmade and original, beautiful pieces of art.

Yesterday I decided I wanted to start wearing more rings and went on Etsy to find some pretty things to quench my thirst. I went through pages upon pages of the most recently added items in the rings section of jewelry and finally decided to just add a whole batch of sellers to my favorites and come back to it another day, when I wasn’t loving every single thing I saw.

The one store whose designs I fell head-over-heels for though, was that ofJewelery by Elizabeth Scott. She works mainly in sterling silver to create simple designs inspired by nature. All of her pieces are fairly simple in shape and design, with hammered out textures and botanical shapes.

Some of my favorites:

“Shoreline Ring” – looks like it was pulled right from the beach, made to look like “sand and reflections in water.”

“Linen Necklace” – textured with a legitimate linen pattern, very simple but I love it.

“Birch Bark Ring” – which was actually textured with birch bark for an extremely earthy and natural design.

“Ginkgo Leaf Earrings” – I didn’t even know what Ginkgo looked like aside from the pill form and it’s great for these earrings, as well as the several rings she made from one leaf each.

“Petal Necklace” – modeled after a hydrangea petal.

These are just a few of the adorable, affordable, earthy designs made by Elizabeth Scott for sale in her Etsy store. After revisiting it, I’m about to give in and buy the birch bark ring I think…

So what does everyone think about the idea of starting a weekly “Etsy Find” post?

Eclecto Wares

Monday, January 28th, 2008

In a pretty neat assemblage of recycling, art, and fashion, the company UPPERCASE makes many cute and unique goods from items such found (“rescued”) books and recycled vintage fashion mags. From these basic materials, they create quirky adorable notebooks, buttons, purses, pouches and more.

Like these:

I came across this company via getTrio‘s daily e-newsletter but their website is also chock full of things to buy, read, see, and learn about. It’s a great little site to check out just to discover things you probably wouldn’t otherwise stumble across.