The beetles you'll love

pic via vogue.us

insects hair pins

precious villians :from up left clockwise  Roberto Cavalli bug brooch - Ioselliani scarab beetle brooch - sapphire beetle brooch - vintage precious beetle

The only insects I can stand are those dipped in gold and decorated with gems. Their natural habitat are vintage shops. If you can beat the fear of having a beetle seated on the collar of your blazer or climbing on your hat these brooch can be a terrific, quirky accessory.
I'll go hunting for some, you should be too!

Ricoperti d'oro e decorati con gemme preziose, ecco degli insetti che sicuramente amerete! Il loro habitat naturale sono i negozi di gioielli e bigiotteria vintage. Se riuscite a superare la paura di avere un coleottero appoggiato sul bavero di una giacca o posato sulla fascia di un cappello allora queste spille saranno un accessorio davvero eccentrico da indossare.

Vintage inspired knot and chain bracelet DIY

I liked the idea of a chunky chain bracelet that would look a bit like a vintage piece of jewelry so I made this bracelet. using a very easy technique to make it. This bracelet is made knotting the chain like it was a piece of rope and then I adding a sassy little tassle at the end that will swing as you move.

 

you'll need:

pliers

chain

metallic wire

clasp

 

knot the chain 

 

cut a few pieces of rope

 

join them together with a jumpring

 

connect the tassle at the end

block the knots with a tiny piece of metallic wire

How to make earrings with buttons

I needed a pair of earrings to wear with my lion bracelet so I made these, you'll find the tutorial below, I hope you'll like it!

Ho creato questi orecchini da indossare con il mio bracciale animalier, troverete il tutorial di seguito, spero vi piaccia!
 

you'll need:

2 gold buttons

2 earrings hooks

2 clamps

a pincher

1 meter of cobra chain

gold metallic wire

Vi servono:

2 bottoni dorati

2 ganci per orecchini

2 morse

2 cerchietti di filo metallico

una pinza

1 metro di catenella cobra

filo metallico dorato

 

 Wrap the wire around the button then make two loops 

Avvolgete il filo metallico intorno al bottone e formate due gancetti 

Using scissors cut the cobra chain in pieces of the same lenght

Usando le forbici tagliate la catenella in segmenti della stessa lunghezza 

Block the chain pieces squeezing the clamp with the pincher

Usando la pinza schiacciate la morsa sulle catenelle

Connect the button to the clamp and to the earring hook with two jump rings.

Connettete il bottone alla morsa e al gancetto per orecchini utilizzando due cerchietti di filo metallico

Butterfly earrings

I really love enamel jewelry,i think enamel gives a vintage feeling to common low cost jewelry we buy nowadays. I saw these cute butterfly earrings at a ridicolous low price the other day and i couldn't do anything but buying them. Butterflies seem a perfect theme to start spring and if you like the look i saw them flying over a jacket in Zara april lookbook.

Sono sempre attratta dai gioielli smaltati. Ho l'impressione che questa finitura dia un aspetto più vissuto e quindi meno inflazionato alla bigiotteria a basso prezzo che compriamo in questi anni.
Ho trovato in vendita queste piccole farfalle l'altro giorno e non ho resistito all'acquisto.Mi sembrano un buon modo di cominciare la primavera.Sembra pensarla così anche Zara che nel suo lookbook di Aprile fa volare delle coloratissime farfalle su una giacca morbida.

Shining expensive kitties

Kenneth Jay Lane

The pics you see above are expensive jewelry in a panther shape most by Cartier.
The first one is a bracelet owned by the Duchess of Windsor,it's from 1952 and it's estimated 1.5 millin pounds.
This design is a symbol of the maison and never go out of fashion.
Even if we can't by these expensive shiny kitties we can anyway sport the look with much cheaper wild cats like the one you see above by Kenneth Jay Lane.