Vintage Costume Jewellery Sale tomorrow! If you're in the big smoke check out Leaside Memorial Community Gardens from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Free admission and parking and vintage costume bling from over 20 dealers - bring cash!We've generated some great awareness about the sale out there in the blog-o-sphere and Twitter land, including a shout out from Toronto style blogger extrordinaire Geekigirl and a shout out the other day by Toronto Life.com's The Weekender, yay!!
I celebrated by popping into good 'old Value Village on my way home the other day. I found this fabulous 1970s gold-tone necklace for $12.99. I'm wearing it with a 1980s blazer and a bright yellow bag.
I love this pin I picked up for $2.99.If what I've learned at the jewellery club is correct, this is an Art Deco style pin by French jewellery maker Pierre Bex.
Bex made Art Deco style pins and earrings from 1969 to the late 80s. Most are not signed and they are all enamelled. Not sure how much this one is worth but I'm so happy to have found it. The green enamel Art Deco style pin I showed you recently is also a Pierre Bex.
This stamped Coro brooch was a little more, $6.99. I don't think it's valuable per se - Coro developed a cheaper line of bling and also a more expensive one - but just thought it was funky.Why? The roses turn - you can slowly spin them. And the clasp at the back is mounted so that the brooch wiggles a bit as you wear it.
Jiggly spinning roses? Well, why not?
Don't know why I keep buying brooches. I'll wear the necklaces but rarely the pins. I often give them away as gifts or sometimes I do put them on a lapel or use one to keep a scarf in place. They just make me happy.
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