Life, Love and Jewellery – Thoughts From The Boneyard
Metro Boho jewellery is the new black
Here's the thing about black. It's cool, it's classy, and you just can't go wrong with it. Everyone looks good in it. Everyone wants it. Most particularly - everyone wants the NEW black. So the trick is discovering the new black before it becomes the old black, and well, all of a sudden you're looking very last season,...
The latest Boho revival - cowboy boots rule!
"You see them here, you see them there, they're stalking catwalks everywhere…” Boho lovers and fashionistas worldwide are rejoicing at a long-awaited fashion revival. Anyone following the major fashion shows in New York, Paris and Milan couldn't help but notice a huge trend hitting the catwalks. Boho cowboy boots are back with a vengeance, and designers are teaming them with...
Midnight in the boneyard
A typical night in the jewellery studio of Her Lovely Bones, fondly called the Boneyard. It's midnight and Yorick the Swarovski skull and I are staring at one another across the workbench. It’s just me – Bone Mama – and Loki the Boneyard mascot who is fascinated by boxes – especially big mysterious boxes from Austria full of Swarovski skulls.
Skulls, bones and sky blue stones - the inspiration behind metro boho
The inspiration behind the creation of metro boho, Her Lovely Bones jewellery, is that the very best of fashion is defined by the unexpected. The combinations that shouldn't work, but do. The weird that becomes the wonderful. The opposites that attract, fitting together as intimately as pieces of a puzzle. Bold and yet minimalist. Lush yet chic. Organic bones and Swarovski...
Stuff about turquoise your mother never told you
So you think you’re buying turquoise do you? You could be lucky - but chances are you are buying are a very distant and poor relative...or, horror of horrors, synthetic (plastic) gunk. Aargh!!! The depressing things they do with plastic these days :( Here's the inside info on the many faces of that beautiful stone called turquoise.