Month: September 2014

9.16.14 Gurnal

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Today’s bangles are: a North African piece I bought years ago in the streets of NY from one of those sidewalk vendors, black Clic Clac, Astrologie Nouvelle, and two horn bangles.

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So I’m here, at work, typing away trying to figure out wordpress stuff (why’s my picture HUGE when in draft form, huh? I don’t get it. I like the iPad app better) and a customer walks in and I’m all working on my gurnal and annoyed they are even present. Great customer service, right? Then I realize I always always think of “journal” as gurnal, grâce à Wet Hot American Summer. You’ve ruined me, WHAS. We can now add gurnal to my list of verbal must-says including:

1. Kiss my ass, Seabass
2. Chorkpop
3. Just for the Halibut

I can’t NOT say these things whenever I hear or read the trigger words. Only now am I noticing all but gurnal are food related. I guess that’s an improvement?

Are you addicted to word swappage? What’s your trigger? Also, thanks At the Library for teaching me how to insert a youtube 😸

9.13.14 Dateless Day

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Finally my replacement UP arrived! To celebrate this fact, I’m all over turquoise… in the wristular area.
Left hand: silver & turquoise dating back to when I was in grade school and mad for turquoise, and a Tiffany’s chain of hearts from my dad.

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Right hand: boy this picture was hard to take. I really feel for all you lefties out there. Each time I rotated my ipad the picture button jumped away from me. Anyways, brand new replacement UP and my Cape Cod watch whose time may or may not be correct. I’m pretty loose when it comes to things like “time” and “measures”

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TV and jewelry

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Yesterday’s post on the the Walking Dead: Sex Ed Fail and an exchange with LoveandFlats on favorite TV shows got me thinking… What other bracelets are out there based on my favorite TV shows? Well, let’s find out!

My very favorite shows are the Walking Dead, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Hannibal, and Justified. Since I already covered the Walking Dead, let’s sub in LoveandFlat’s favorite show Breaking Bad.

First up: BUFFY. I both googled and Etsy-ed, but google just brought me back around to Etsy where I found a lot, A LOT, of very tweeny Buffy charm bracelets. The more uncommon are the cuffs, like this one on sale right now for $13.60 by TheTrendyGeek

IMG_2518.PNG You just can’t go wrong with the Buffy tagline. I like, too, the crooked typewriter font. It’s a subtle but pretty piece of fan jewelry.

Next: HANNIBAL. Surprisingly, Etsy offered more variety in Hannibal bracelet styles though altogether less bracelets. I want to find the most special of the options, though, and it is a $17.10 charm bracelet by FanFayreJewelry

IMG_2519.PNG It’s not overcrowded by charms which is how many charm bracelets turn out wrong. The charms include so many nuances of the Hannibal themes: the stag, knives, a clock! So subtle but fantastic. I would definitely wear this.

JUSTIFIED: This show doesn’t have the obsessive fanbase of the other shows. I wasn’t expecting to find much, and I didn’t. There is one single Justified tagged bracelet option but… It’s lovely! Made by ClosetGeekery it’s $20.

IMG_2520.PNG I would actually probably pair this guy with the Hannibal charm bracelet. They would definitely compliment one another.

Now for you, LoveandFlats, BREAKING BAD: more charm bracelets, more hand stamped silver cuffs but nothing exceptional. Which, a show like Breaking Bad? We’re looking for exceptional, inspired, and cool to wear. And this periodic table of elements for $30 by UniqueArtPendants spoke to me. Too cool for school! Wait, let me correct myself, it is exactly the right amount of cool for school.

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What are your favorite shows? Let’s find some awesome fan bracelets (and, maybe even other jewelry!)

9.12.14 Golden Thai

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Turns out not much goes with amber except, well, amber. Today I’m wearing a pair of silver and amber twig shaped earrings from my brother’s girlfriend, an amber and silver cuff a former roommate brought back from Thailand for me, and another charm bracelet from my dad.

This one is beach themed: sea shells, starfish and such. I wish I remembered where it was from or when he gave it to me. But I don’t. It could have been 20 years ago or 5, I’m such a magpie with my bracelets. Today is maybe the first time ever that I’m wearing it. I doubt my dad would remember, either, if I could ask him. He’d probably laugh in his way and say “oh I don’t know, Pumps”… That’s what he called me. But maybe I’m wrong, maybe he would remember and now it’s all gone.

This amber and sterling cuff by theTreasuredHippie is significantly fancier then mine (I’m not even certain my cuff is *real* amber but the silver has the 925 imprint)

IMG_2525.PNG It’s $350, but maybe with this one, you can extract some DNA and clone a crew of dinosaurs. Just let me warn you away from the Raptors.

Sex Ed Fail, now with more bangles!

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The Walking Dead Edition

The Walking Dead is one of my favorite shows. So much so that I’ve picked up the books AND the graphic novels that inspired these $37.19 resin bangles by Nerd Mart Customs on Etsy

IMG_2508.PNG *sigh* Laurie, SMH.

Anyway, I found myself reading The Fall of the Governor. For the most part a good read BUT apparently nobody raised a red flag on the making the babies misinformation therein. Did they really NOT have any woman, or any person familiar with basic human biology, proofread? Without spoiling anything, here is the scoop: female character has unprotected sex and seven days later is pee-on-a-stick pregnant. That just fails on so many levels.

As most women of the ‘trying to get knocked up age’ know, over the counter pregnancy tests read hormone levels after a missed period. The menstrual cycle is approximately 28 days. The window of ovulation (a requisite for getting pregnant) falls centrally in the menstrual cycle, typically day 14 out of 28 days. So to become pregnant, unprotected sex occurs day 14, seven days later is still only day 21. Pee-on-a-stick pregnant is just not possible. Or the reverse, day 29 is first day of missed period resulting in a positive pregnancy test, but the character’s unprotected sex occurred 7 days earlier puting the sex at day 22 of her cycle, also known as over a week too late for ovulation.

My other grievances? The character supposedly “feels” kind of pregnant… 7 days after unprotected sex! Bitch, you’re not pregnant, that’s called indigestion.

Then there’s the fact that it takes a varying number of days (7 to 10 days) after sex for the fertilized egg to even implant in the uterus. So it’s possible that 7 days after successful unprotected ovulation day sex she wouldn’t even technically *be* pregnant yet, not to mention pee-on-a-stick levels of pregnancy.

So, Robert Kirkman and Jay Bonansinga, get it together! I will accept this $23 zombie apocalypse charm bracelet by Allstrungout1 on Etsy in apology.

IMG_2511.PNG If you really want to grovel, I wouldn’t turn up my nose to adding this $20 Zombie cuff by Peyton’s Treasures on Etsy

IMG_2512.PNG But this? The $7 positive pregnancy text necklace by Nothingbutamother

IMG_2513.PNG I think you should send this to Robert Kirkman.

Verybangled, getting you the pressing bangle news first!

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Today we address a highly controversial issue. Sterling silver polish. Now, I am not one to shy away from Hot Topic, which is why I decided it was time to address the monkey in the room. Because silver polish is exactly that, a monkey in the room. What kind? That’s not important. Or maybe it’s cute, with ear tufts, but that’s beside the point.

I roll deep in the silver bracelets. Polishing them this morning I realized I have a selection of polishes and I don’t actually know which ones are the best, or when to use them, if they’re safe with gems or anything.

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So practicing the scientific method I learned from 6th grade science fairs, I made an experiment. I tried each polish on a different tarnished bracelet.

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You’ll notice the left side is unpolished, the right is polished. Frankly, I didn’t find any real, quantifiable difference between the brands except the Goddard’sdip is easiest to use.

However, this Nancy Drew was not yet ready to call a draw. I needed to get the scoop from the pros, so I rang Robertino at Hutten Jewelers and asked for his recommendation. Well, firstly, because they are fantastic, they told me to bring my jewelry to their shop and they’d polish it free of charge. Excellent customer service, but that didn’t answer my questions. Evading the issue, aren’t you Robertino?!?

Robertino then explained to me that there is different polish for silverware versus jewelry. They currently use Wright’s polish for the silverware they sell, but for jewelry he uses baking soda!! He stressed the importance of properly washing off the items after using the baking soda because it will continue to eat away at the metals. His next recommendation is for Goddard’s Silver Dip and my face was like:

IMG_2502.PNG ERMAGAWD that’s exactly the one that I preferred! So there you have it, for jewelry use either baking soda (thoroughly rinsed off) or Goddard’s Silver Dip and for silverware use Wright’s. From the pros mouths to yours. Well, not to your mouth, maybe to your eyeballs.

Signing off, make each day (pause, whip off glasses) a silver one.

9.11.14 Fran Sandisco Summer

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It’s hot here today but I expect the fog will roll in later. Today’s bangles are mostly cuffs: xo Elsa Peretti, turquoise cuff I got in Maine when I was about ten, turquoise and silver bracelet from Mexico, and the horn bangles.

But look at me!
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I’m matching ear, neck and wrist! A turquoise heart necklace my mama gave me, and H&M hoop earrings.

I don’t know where my mom found the necklace but here’s something similar from Etsy for $6!
IMG_2503-0.PNG Dood, and it’s two for the price of one… Somebody should jump on that.