Showing posts with label Geek jewellery. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Geek jewellery. Show all posts

Saturday, 26 May 2018

New Necklaces book review by Geek Jewellery

New Necklaces book review by Geek Jewellery

Another book and another opinion. Is it worth buying this fabulous book entitled "New Necklaces" 400 designs in contemporary jewellery by Nicolas Estrada?

Well having obtained and read many books on both vintage and today's jewellery - this is a must. Especially if you like the little bit of Geek or something very different from the normal in your neck jewellery. It is full of clear images and descriptions of contemporary necklaces and with each turn of the page, more just jump out and fire your imagination. Okay, so many you would not wear, but many you would. Just like some of the clothes displayed on a fashion show. These necklaces are inspirational and daring. Fabulous use of mixed media in some cases and traditional silver and gold in others.
Many people tend to stick to the same boring designs that are "In fashion" and available in their hundreds and thousands. But why follow the crowd - when this amount of necklaces in so many fashionable designs are available.  

What this jewellery book contains.

It has 400 images of cool jewellery from statement necklaces to fine silver and gold necklaces and beads designed and made by jewellery designers around the world. Big and bold pieces to small and neat. Just love the designs that are totally unusual.

From using new material and many different kinds of materials. This book also has many designs made from recycled items.
How cool is this teddy bear necklace by Soyeon Kim? who also has a pink rabbit toy necklace depicted.

 Take a look at this fabulous book. It was first published in 2016 and is available at all good book retailers now.

Monday, 23 January 2017

2017 a big challenge in geek jewellery

Geek jewellery 2017 style

Good morning world. 2017 is now very much on us. It is nearly the end of the first month. Just think in 10 months time - we will be putting the Christmas decorations up again.

What will 2017 bring to Geek jewellery? Well, we will have more great vintage and pre-owned pieces, but we do plan to introduce more handmade and recycled vintage jewellery. Lots of plans in progress.
Jewel's just loves plastic and has been experimenting with different looks. This year is also the space age with plenty of alien and outer space looking brooches and choker necklaces becoming fashionable. Comic book heroes are all in at the moment along with cute cat and dog images!

2017 A big challenge in Geek jewellery

So as we prepare to blog about the 2016's chosen topic of quirky jewellery collecting - witch and magical inspired cheapo jewellery. It is down to put our thinking cap on to what do we collect this year that is cheap and a little bit geeky? Our past efforts have been - alien, dinosaur, Halloween and last years were witches inspired! So what do I collect in 2017? Watch this blog as all will be revealed soon...

Blue plastic ring with flowers embedded in the front.
Ceramic pig brooch pin 
Dangling yellow plastic earrings for pierced ears
Tweety Pie key ring vintage


Paisley metal bangle

We have many more geek jewellery pieces added every week. So take a look frequently
        

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Solihull, West Midlands, United Kingdom
I preserve the past. Researching family and local history. Finding about mine and other people's ancestors, is just one of my passions. I also love vintage costume jewellery made here in the UK. I write about my finds and like to research.