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Monty Don

Although we know Monty Don as a great gardener on BBC's Gardeners' World -  in the 1980s he and his wife designed and made beautiful costume jewellery -  these are just a few of their gorgeous pieces.

Monty Don's "The Jewel Garden"

Jewellery

The 'Tutti Frutti' Necklace & Bracelet were made for Glora Swanson

Having read, this morning, about Wallis Simpson (The Duchess of Windsor) - a collection of her jewellery is coming up for sale at Sothebys - (expected to make over £4 million!) - I did a reccie on the internet, and found these lovely pieces - not all of them belonged to the Duchess but they were mostly made by Cartier or Van Cleef & Arpels.

Laura McCabe - Bead Artist

These beautiful beaded pieces are by Laura McCabe

Button mania!

For anyone who loves buttons - and jewellery - check out Petronella's super website.
I think these are wonderful! .... (must get my button box out!)
Check out her Etsy shop too.

ORIGINS Exhibition at Somerset House

Lubna Chowdhray - ceramic tiles

Marlene McKibbin - acrylic jewellery

Linda Miller - embroidery

Katie Mawson - stitched textiles

I visited the Origins exhibition yesterday - some wonderful stuff!

Grainne Morton - Jewellery Designer

I uploaded this lovely brooch a few posts ago, and couldn't find out anything about the designer. "Anonymous" very kindly left me a comment with Grainne's details - here are some more of her original pieces.

Emily Bedford - Jewellery Designer

Emily's 'precious' jewellery is well worth browsing.

Kyoko Hashimoto - Jewellery Designer

Kyoko's blog is beautiful to browse as is her jewellery.

Paddy Killer

close-up of Paddy Killer's Embroidery (from The Marriage between Mary Tudor and Philip of Spain)

"Elizabethan"
"Ermine" portrait of Elizabeth I.

Potted History: Elizabeth I was Mary Tudor's step-sister and reigned after Mary's death from 1558 (24 yrs old) until 1603 (69). Elizabeth was succeeded by James I of England & VI of Scotland - he was the son of Mary Queen of Scots (Mary Stuart), whom Elizabeth had beheaded.

Some Tudor and Elizabethan Jewellery