Bitch don’t make me take my earrings off

These earrings by You gNeeK on Etsy solve the age-old problem of form vs. function. Have your cake, eat it too! Two birds, one stone! !!!

The store offers hundreds of delightfully geeky objects, such as a math clock I’m incredibly tempted to get for my boyfriend (PhD student in electrical engineering… ’nuff said) and lots of cool functional tools dressed up as aesthetically pleasing  jewelry.  I’m infinitely pleased by the spirit level necklace, but the violent pyro in me can’t keep her eyes off the infinitely cool dangerous toys, like the working folding knife earrings. Steampunk enthusiasts should forget their silly faux clockwork jewellery and turn to these instead. Nothing says gentlewoman-adventurer chic quite like working lighter earrings. Love them.

Tiny Folding Knife Earrings. $39.99

Vintage Gold Lighter Earrings. $49.99

Switchblade necklace. $34.99

2.18.10 Coveting

Did I mention I love Michelle Chang’s jewellery? Check out her snake rings and her skull bangle:

Open Mouth Snake Ring, $216

Double Baby Snake Ring, $136

Baby Skull Bangle, $64 (This might have to be the next piece of hers I acquire)

I also love her Baby Skull Ring, and her Baby Kitty Studs for a touch of sweetness.

Time for Tea!

I really don’t think this would fly in my mostly-male household, but I’m obsessed with Vintage Renaissance‘s Tea Set Lamp:

It’s quirky and sweet, and reminds me just enough of Alice in Wonderland to make it near-perfect. Actual perfection would be if the pieces were askew, but then we get into serious feats of construction, and I can settle for being a little less demanding. It might also be fun to see the tea sets with the original patterns, though I do quite enjoy this shade of blue. Either way, it’s a lovely piece, and I ardently wish it could be mine.

It’s apparently inspired by Anthropologie’s One Lump or Two Lamp, which I have also sighed over, but I must say that I prefer Vintage Renaissance’s version, if only because I know the pieces are unique, so there’s a better story to be had behind them. It’s not like I don’t spend enough money at Anthro as it is.

Dollhouse tunic

Really love this tunic from Neneee’s Etsy shop. So playful! I could totally see myself wearing this, but I vaaaaaaaaguely suspect I would look absolutely ludicrous in it. Such a tragedy. Shall have to think of some other way of drawing inspiration from this look, something that doesn’t involve me looking like I’m  trying to look like a two-year old. Or maybe I’ll just rock a look like this, throw up some pigtails and just revel in making a laughing-stock of myself.

Or then again… nah. I’ll stick to random acts of public, shameless song and dance to cover that basis. I’m enough of a fool as it is.

BTW, oh three readers, posts this week are likely to be on the sporadic side. Crazy times at work. It’s a tough life, being a photocopy-wrangler.

A Picture’s Worth…

Discovery of the night is Jen Khoshbin‘s photographs of papercuts made out of books. It’s unclear whether the figures relate  to the text from which the cut is made, so it is fascinating to see how the visual image and the existence of text play off of one another and almost force the viewer into imagining the context for the depicted moment.  It’s wonderful to have these images available as photographs, rather than actual sculptures from the books, because it allows us to feel that we are viewing a snatched moment, rather than a static object. I also love thinking about the fragility of these forms– they seem solid here, but in real life they must shiver and shake with the slightest motion of the book they’re cut from.

(Apologies for the uneven spacing between the pictures. the pictures themselves have white borders and I’m faaaaar too lazy to tinker with them and crop them so as to have them all the same distance apart. Hope this doesn’t make you twitch too much. I’m just trying not to think about it too hard, else madness will ensue.)

Sucker for your love

Couldn’t resist posting this. When I was searching “taxidermy” for the post below, this beauty popped up among the real and fake mounted heads.

[OctopusMe]

My taste in things tends slightly towards the creepy and theatrical, though I try to tone it down for public consumption. This octopus ring is perfect for these purposes– just enough of bizarrity to be satisfactory, without quite blaring “Bwahahahaha I’m wearing dinner twined around my hand!”

Also, this pendant could easily be worn by Ursula the Sea Witch’s shy, retiring maiden aunt:

[Black Tourmaline Pendant]

Et, enfin, apologies for the title. I make no claims to being witty today.

For all your back-woods bordello needs.

I know that the fauxidermy trend is soooooo last year or whatever, (yes, you have license to kill me with eye rolls for that entire phrase) and that I’m showing how I’m not all hep to the ebb and flow of the cutting edge of ironic home decor, but I do really dig this felt bunny head from Girl Savage. I feel that it would make a fine addition to my collection of Random Junk up on my wall.

[Bunny Rabbit 41 Feltidermy]

This carved deer head is also rather cool. I quite like the colour… would add a marvellous touch of modern-hunting-lodge-cum-bordello to any interior. Precisely what I’m looking for in any objet that crosses my path. I always like to look at things and see if they’ll give my living quarters just that je-ne-sais-quoi that is the trademark of the back-country hooker.

Weird phrasing brought on by weird mood aside, I actually do think this head is a cool take on the trend. [Life Size Handpainted Faux Deer Head by I heart Sammi]

These two here by Snew aren’t to my personal taste, but I do find them just plain funny:

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And this final one I thought was really cool until I became squicked out by the fact that it was a real taxidermied bunny. I’m cool with meat and (selfishly, guiltily) cool with fur, but actual dead animals I can’t deal with. If you’re not like me and can get over the vague creepiness, I think these are really cool. Just not for my walls.

[Bunny Hold My Jewels by Mary Beth's Art]