Thursday, May 07, 2009

Color's HOT for Spring and Summer!

Sing is here, summer is nearly here and we have a few fresh vintage jewelry ideas for the season.

According to InStyle HOT color is in, LOTS of color is in and we're excited to show off some of our most fun and flirtiest spring/summer pieces!

Bright lemony yellow plastic parure (yellow is the new black!):



Compare InStyle's May edition, page 32.

Vintage silver tone clip earrings with pairs of bright yellow glass cabochon stones:




Gos with everything and loaded with COLOR, Les Bernard chunky charms necklace with 3(!) pairs of matching earrings:




Really fun and funky plastic bead necklace:




Colorful rhinestone sphere pendant on a long chain just screams spring time:




A huge hot pink flower sits on top of this silver plated hinged clamper:




Fun and funky neon green plastic earring, 1960's Made in Hong Kong:




French Poured Glass Bead Necklace, lots of color and interesting beads:




Great beads, great with jeans:




Great enamel colors of burgundy, lemon yellow, goldenrod, blue, green and teal hinged bangle bracelet and earrings:




Colorful rhinestone locket, attributed Czechoslovakian:




Bows and flowers, both very hot right now as accessories...here's a way to do both, a colorful bow brooch and earring set by Hollycraft, the bow decorated with different colored rhinestone flower:


Wednesday, May 06, 2009

Black and white vintage jewelry

Black and white...always a fashion staple for spring and summer. You can make that statement in your jewelry as well. Black and white, and black and clear has been a popular color combo in vintage jewelry going back nearly 100 years. From Art Deco to the mod '60s and again in the 1980's, there are examples of black and white jewels everywhere. Use of beads, pearls, plastics and rhinestones, it can be subtle or dramatic, bold or elegant, or just plain fun and funky....here are just a few examples:

Art Deco Black and pearl negligee necklace


Flapper era black and white glass beads sautoir:


Venetian glass beads necklace...terrific black and white pizzo beads:


Art Deco sterling black and clear glass chiclet and cameo necklace/bracelet set:


Hobe' black and white rhinestone bracelet:


Art Deco molded glass and rhinestone bracelet:


1960's black rhinestone in white japanned setting brooch and earrings:


Black & white pin striped lucite earrings:


1980's huge 4" black & white plastic shapes chandelier earrings: