At first, the gorgeous birdcages catches your eyes. You stride purposefully across the room to take a closer look, and what do you discover? Jewelry, all over the place, scattered across the birdcages, glinting and shining in the light. You see beautiful gold baubles and silver chains, green turquoise and red bamboo coral. you notice a few dings and scratches on a skeleton key, you see that a gold pendant has a little wear and tear.

“What is this?”

The story of the jewelry is a long, detailed, and beautiful one. A mix of vintage, worn, and new elements extracted from other jewelry and found objects come together to form gorgeous new pieces. You’ll find a golden cross liberated from an abandoned piece of jewelry paired with a new shell heart pendant. You’ll see a vintage red metal heart pendant attached to a previously loved teardrop hoop and a new sterling silver feather charm.

Beatrice, the artist and gypsy, armed with jewelry pliers and airplane tickets travel the world reaching destinations as far as France and India and as close as Arizona and California to search and save vintage and other jewelry. She rushes home and pieces mismatching parts into a beautiful, stunning whole.

The jewelry is for you; but not just you. It’s also for the hidden gypsy, bohemian, free-spirited goddess you have inside of you. The one who begs and dreams to come out and you have to quiet as you go along your day attending business meetings and your kids’ soccer matches.

It’s not just for the young or just for the old. It’s not just for the wild and crazy or just for the demure but coy flirt. It’s for you, you yourself, and the inner desire you have to run barefoot in the nearest meadow.

Please e-mail me at Beatrice@BirdcageBohemia.com with any comments, questions, or ideas you have. You can even do it to simply say hi. I encourage it, really.