Meet Zooey

She's been making hard to do any real work lately because she's so FREAKING CUTE. Also she likes to sit on my computer (she's doing it right now as I'm typing...seriously, check out the picture), eat my jewelry wire, and knock every bead under the couch. But still, so cute.

Anyway, the security guards at the Governor's Mansion (where I work) found her last week. Somehow she ended up coming home with me. Since I may already have a cat (or two) I can't keep her. I think it's too early in my life to show my true colors and give in to crazy cat lady tendencies.

So...anyone want the sweetest cutest kitten in the world? Seriously, she's precious. She's about 7 weeks old. She was extremely malnourished when we found her, but she's been eating approximately every five minutes for a week now (she's got the cutest baseball belly right now...so chubby). She is a snuggler and a loud purrer. Also, this is a bit random, but she has the teensiest tiniest paws ever. She kind of looks like a ballerina.

Basically, I think you want her. Or I do. Eek. If you do want her, call or email me fast. I might get too attached!

Box It Up

Sometimes the box is better than what's inside. Well, maybe not with jewelry. Still, check out these great boxes and containers that would be perfect for your jewelry.

"Vintage Cloisonne Trinket Box"

"Traveling Companion"

"Geisha's Parasol"

"Vintage Metal Flower"

"Vintage Ceramic"

"Fab Floral Vintage Metal Box"

"Vintage Brass and Mother of Pearl"

"Antique Wooden Box"

"Vintage Yellow Plaid Sewing Box"

"Vintage Mele"

Foxy

Add a little foxiness to your life...

Fox Ring

Yellow Gold Fox Cuff Links

Fox Stud Earrings

Fox Head And Tail Cufflinks

Vintage Fox Pin Necklace

Mirlo Fox Ring

Fox Trot Necklace

Fox Claw Necklace

Green Fox Ring

Running Fox Necklace

Foxy Mama Earrings

Sweet 'Stache

Ah, the circus. I only think I've ever been to an actual CIRCUs but once, but for some reason I love everything circus and fair-related (except clowns...nothing's scarier than a clown). My friend LV is equally obsessed. I'm pretty sure she looks forward to the SC State Fair almost as much as she looks forward to Christmas. So with LV in my mind, I created my first Etsy treasury. (If you don't know what a treasury is, it's basically a theme-related list you can compile from all the merchandise on Etsy.) It was sort of ridiculously fun to make, and I'm looking forward to the fair even more now.


I really love the ringmaster-inspired Fancy Mustache necklace I stumbled across when searching for all things circus...I really, REALLY love it. I'd buy it for LV for either a birthday or Christmas present, but alas, I know I'd end up keeping it for myself. See I'm my own circus act...World's Most Selfish Girl. (Better than the Bearded Lady!)


Blarggh. Back to the other non-fun circus that is my job.


-Margaret

Phobia, Schmobia

If you've never heard of Anthropologie, stop reading this blog right now. Actually, on second thought, keep reading. You can thank me later when you realize it's the piece of your life that's been missing since...well, birth, probably. (Please don't stalk me down in the night and murder me, however, when you overdraw.)

Anyway, as usual I wanted to crawl into the pages of this month's catalog and live there forever. I can't even afford a

pillow in their home decor section (on an unrelated note, buy some jewelry!), but I did see something that caught my eye...The Pop-up Book of Phobias! It's the perfect coffee table book to go between my Waterhouse and Millais art books. Every home needs a dose of weird. Even better? Bought it for $3 on Amazon Marketplace. Boom.

Also on my list of things I must have even if I have to hold up an Anthropologie at gunpoint (I've been watching a lot of Law & Order lately and I think, I THINK that I could be found not guilty by reason of mental disease. Anthropologitis. It's an epidemic. No cure.) is the Highest Accolades dress. Gah. Loves it. Makes me think nostalgically about my horse show days. Of course, I rarely won ribbons, but I think that means I deserve this dress.

Whoops. So far this post has scant to do with jewelry. So I'll end it with a necklace that I will also steal in my crime spree. Also equine-related, it's the Loping Louise necklace. Lurrrve it. Want it. Can never afford it. Will steal it.

Oh, and my phobia? Obviously fear of a world without Anthropologie.

(Also fear of phones. And clowns.)

Cheers,

Margaret

Pillsbury Progress

Just bought some vintage enamel brooches in the style of Emma Pillsbury. This necklace is SO ON.

Sue Sylvester's Quote of the Day: Your hair looks like a briar patch. I keep expecting racist, animated Disney characters to pop up and start singing about living on the bayou.

Down on the [Emerald] Farm

Yesterday my dad asked if I'd heard about the ginormous emerald found in North Carolina that is, as Time magazine reported, "famous for its emeralds." SIDEBAR: WTF? How can you farm gemstones? Possibly I am newly obsessed with the idea of farming. At 65 carats, it is being called the largest emerald ever cut in North America. It will be cut in the style of Catherine the Great's famous emerald brooch, which was sold at Christie's in April for $1,650,500. Ah, to be rich. I guess I should have been born on an emerald farm.