Wearing Your Weaknesses With Cast Of Vices Jewelry

Whether you've kicked the habit, or still indulge, the jewelry from Cast of Vices is a hand crafted reminder of our vices, be them smoking, drinking, pill-popping, snorting - or even chewing on a pen cap.

Cast in sterling silver or gold, the pendants, bracelets and pins are detailed representations of our culture's obsession with self-medicating. The fly is said to serve as a reminder of the 'stench of our addictions' and is available on any piece shown.


Cigarette butts:

Beer Bottlecaps (Corona, Budweiser and Miller High Life):

Pills, pills, pills in gold or sterling silver:


Pills bracelet:

With flies:

Fly pendants and cockroach pin:

Pen cap and pouch pendants:

Vials with sterling silver caps:


All pieces are hand-crafted in the USA with sterling silver or 14k gold using the lost wax casting process.


To find your nearest stockist, go here.

Growing Rings & Necklaces by HAF, Now Available

Talk about your green thumb. Or rather, finger. Hafsteinn Juliusson is an Industrial/Interior designer from Reykjavik, Iceland living and working in Milano, Italy who has come up with the idea of combining living organisms with sterling silver jewelry.




Growing Jewelry from HAF, designed by Hafsteinn Juliusson
Growing Rings and necklaces are a mix of jewelry and plant, couture and organism. The rings and pendants hold actual living greenery and are now available in limited production. This collection is a handmade product made in Iceland and all pieces are made out of molded silver.

The images you see below are available. Other sizes are available by special request.

The Rings:






The Necklaces:





Rings like the one shown above are available by special request only.
above photos by Harpa Hödd, Saga Sigurðardóttir and Sóley Þórisdóttir

It is important to take care of the Growing Jewelry. For best results water it only once every 5 weeks and be careful not to water too much. It’s also good to store the ring in deep freeze to preserve it. The moss can stay green for up to 8 - 12 months but Hafsteinn Juliusson takes no responsibility for that :)



The rings and necklaces can be purchased directly from the designer here.
Or from Gnr8.

Bruxe X Uranium Tiny Little Chairs Pendants Now Available!

There was much brouhaha a few months back when the news first broke that Bruxe Design of Montreal would be pairing up with Uranium to create modern chair classic pendants. Now, the first five charming three dimensional casts of mid-century modern chairs are finally available for purchase online.

I must confess, I was disappointed to see that the gold was only 10k (however, you can order custom versions in 14k, 18k, 24k and even platinum). They cost a little more than I was hoping they would, but they are still incredibly lust worthy. And finally available.



Tiny Little Chairs is a series of collectible pendants celebrating mid century design. Each pendant represents a vintage chair which revolutionized furniture production and the design process (however, you'll notice, they couldn't use the actual names of the original chair designs by Eames, Saarinen, and Mies van der Rohe).




The designers of this era have forever changed the way we interact with design objects and their harmony within of our home, office and environment. These miniatures allow you to wear your love and appreciation for these pioneering designers and their iconic objects which continue to be benchmarks for today's designers.

The first series consists of five chairs (all shown below), The Scoop Chair, The Dining Chair, The Work Chair, The Bent Chair and The Pavilion Chair, each offered in solid gold, silver or bronze.


The Scoop Chair (modeled after the Eames Fiberglass Shell Chair):

SCOOP CHAIR - 10K GOLD $700.00
SCOOP CHAIR - BRONZE $180.00
SCOOP CHAIR - STERLING SILVER $230.00

The Dining Chair (modeled after the Eero Saarinen Tulip chair)

DINING CHAIR - 10K GOLD $500.00
DINING CHAIR - BRONZE $140.00
DINING CHAIR - STERLING SILVER $180.00

The Work Chair (modeled after the Eames Time Life Chair)

WORK CHAIR - 10K GOLD $1,250.00
WORK CHAIR - BRONZE $270.00
WORK CHAIR - STERLING SILVER $350.00

The Bent Chair (modeled after Eames LCW Chair)

BENT CHAIR - 10K GOLD $600.00
BENT CHAIR - 925 STERLING $200.00
BENT CHAIR - BRONZE $160.00

The Pavilion Chair (modeled after Mies van der Rohe's Barcelona Chair)

PAVILION CHAIR - 10K GOLD $1,600.00
PAVILION CHAIR - BRONZE $340.00
PAVILION CHAIR - STERLING SILVER $500.00

Buy them here.

A Toast To Hip Jewelry. Decant Her Necklaces By Femme Metale.

Jewelry design company Femme Metale makes much of the kind of jewelry we've seen in typical trendy contemporary jewelry stores lately. Tattoo, Asian, Goth and rock n' roll inspired pieces that include daggers, hearts, swallows, crosses, buddhas, koi and the like.

But what they do have, that separates them from the myriad of hand-cast sterling silver jewelry presently saturating the market, are some fabulously clever and original necklaces that are a take-off on the sterling nameplates or tags one sees hanging upon a liquor decanter. Hence, the Decant Her Necklaces.

The solid sterling silver pendants engraved to look like the classic Victorian ornate nameplates bear double entendres like "complex" and "lush" as well as simple funny adjectives such as "drunk", "sober", "wino" and "boozer".







The 10 necklaces in the collection each measure 17" in length, are strung on sterling silver chains and fasten with a sterling silver toggle clasp. Each costs $260.00 USD. You can purchase any of them here.



About Femme Metale:
The creative force behind Femme Metale is Leslie Homan, a former model, Hollywood makeup artist and wardrobe stylist. Creativity has always been in Leslie's blood. She has been designing her own clothes and accessories since she was very young. With many high school and college jewelry classes under her belt she decided to put this knowledge and her love of fashion to work. In January 2000 with a passion for fashion, Rock & Roll and precious metal, Femme metale was born. Her focus on high quality, always original designs and exceptional customer service have made Femme metale the leader in “sterling silver jewelry that rocks”.



Femme Metale has graced the manicured hands of Christina Aguilera, Kate Moss, Sheryl Crow, Kat Von D, Brittany Murphy, Avril Lavigne, Angelina Jolie, and the Divas of the WWE to name a few. A darling of the press Femme metale has been featured in the following top publications: Teen Vogue, Cosmo Girl, ELLEgirl, Lucky, Cosmopolitan, J-14, Twist, W, Vibe, Lemonade, In Style and many more. Femme metale jewelry has appeared on America's Next Top Model, Miami Ink, L.A. Ink, The House Bunny Movie and Dante's Cove.

Leslie is continually designing fresh new sterling silver jewelry to adorn the world's style leaders and trend setters. With over 300 completely original items there is something for everyone.

Minor imperfections are part of hand crafted jewelry and I like to call them "beauty marks". The "beauty marks" give each piece a one of a kind feel. I do not use machines to cast my jewelry and each piece is polished and finished by hand. All of the assembly is done by me in my studio.

Femme Metale, Inc.
2556 Avenida del Vista #201
Corona, CA 92882 USA

metalmaven@femmemetale.net
Phone: 951-279-9737
Fax: 951-279-9747