Art for sale?

As many of you know, Toma (the boyfriend) does some magnificent edwardian era style paintings that he sells on Etsy (tomaelias.etsy.com). We have gone one step further on his art work, and turned his original paintings into tiny keepsakes. I am so excited on this project, and I know I might be a little biased, but I have seen these in real life and they are pretty neat. He has made Brooches, Bracelets, Necklaces and Lockets, all with either the male or female painting. We finally got them up on etsy this week, so I thought I would share with you guys.




The top image is the originals, that he is saving for a gallery show in Astoria next month. But the jewels are all available and ready to ship in time for Christmas.

Ok, Ok.... enough shameless plugging. Back to vintage next entry!

grandmothers.

My great-grandmother, was a mean-spirited little German woman, who my kind-hearted Grandpa met while driving tanks in WWII. She was cranky and strict, and drove my grandmother nuts. I am hard pressed to find fond family memories about her.
When she died, my grandmother put her jewelry box away, until I was old enough for it.
I was giving a handful of this jewelry this year. All of her jewelry is pre-1965 and she had, for the most part, rather fantastic taste. Most of it is darling and very art deco.
One piece is this gold Trifari set, which is really quite beautiful. I would love this piece, except for one small problem. I dont wear gold. I never have and I never will. So I sent it over to ETSY, someone else will love it more than me.

Gold Trifari Set

In other news of the night, its been a while since I got to really play around with photoshop, which used to be one of my favorite past times. So I nabbed a picture of me yesterday, and added a little "midnight sepia"
I think it turned out rather charming.