things of beauty

[kaberett]

• Michael Michaud's nature-inspired jewelry - sadly, the shop isn't loading and the things I thought were most breath-takingly beautiful aren't featured on the website proper (the rosemary necklace!) -- (littlebutfierce, do you like the style? I am maybe Plotting a Thing.)
  
• Paula Bolton, again with the jewelry; I am particularly enamoured of the bee brooch, blackberry brooch, snowdrop brooch, and of course the snowdrop brooch.
  
• unfortunately I was unable to track down the Alpine strawberry pendants or the pussy willow brooches
  
• oh dear goodness FairyGothMother has, in their sale, a corset I have been lusting after for literally. years. In my size. For less than sixty quid. But given the size of illness-related outgoings I've had this week I think I should pass on it. ;_______;
  
• ages ago, I went around the National Gallery with randomling and had a great time. Two pictures we particularly noted loving: Niccolò dell'Abate's Death of Eurydice (the background detail! the cityscape! the light!), and Giovanni Girolamo Salvoldo's Mary Magdalene
  
• this story synopsis: "Sixteen-year-old Emmeline Thistle, a dirt-scratcher’s daughter, wasn’t wanted when she was born due to an imperfection. She wasn’t supposed to have lived, but through amazing circumstances she survived, thanks to some very protective cows! When her life is threatened again through the flooding of her village in the Flatlands, she is taken in by the Oaks family from Wander, who help care for her until she has recuperated. While there, with the help of the dairyman’s attentive son Owen, she discovers she has a special gift…a very sweet gift involving chocolate. Now Emmeline has gone from being unwanted to wanted by everyone in the kingdom of Anglund, including those who would use her for their own gain and greed." (The Sweetest Spell, Suzanne Selfors)

Comments

[littlebutfierce]

!! But LJ says I don't have permission to view the entry w/the jewelry in it??

[kaberett]

... that's because I was an incompetent, link fixed now

[littlebutfierce]

Heh, thanks! I'm going to be difficult & say I like some of them, hehehehe.

[kaberett]

Okay so the reason I ask is um the gingko leaf stuff (thanks numberland for the link).

[littlebutfierce]

Some of those are lovely! I don't usually like gold, but well, it kind of goes for ginkgo! (I don't wear pearls tho, cuz not vegan) (& I don't wear earrings, heh.)

Uh, at the risk of reading too much into your comment about Plotting a Thing, though, I will note that they seem quite expensive & just... uh... awkwardface, etc. etc. *hands*

[kaberett]

Mrr. You like gingko things, they're on your wishlist, I think they're actually cheaper from the museum shop around the corner where I spotted them, and I don't mind spending tax-payers' money on nice things for friends. <3

[littlebutfierce]

*wrings hands* Um okay, I think. I guess. Eeep. *flees*

[kaberett]

also also also you are allowed nice things! <3 If you would rather this conversation happened somewhere other than comments on a public post, LMK ;)

[numberland]

There appears to be a working version of the shop here http://www.michaelmichaudjewelry.com/rosemary, and they appear to have a pussy willow broach type thing: http://www.michaelmichaudjewelry.com/pussy-willow/144-Pussy-Willow-Pin.html

[lnr.livejournal.com]

I have some *lovely* Paula Bolton snowdrop earrings and a necklace which Mike saw me coveting in the shop in the Botanic Gardens in Cambridge and sekritly bought for me. :)

I wonder if you'd also like Joanna Thompson's work, though it's not quite so much the nature-inspired end:

http://jewellery-scotland.com

I have some leafy things in silver and moonstone and river pearls which I love.