A touch of mink....

A touch of mink...
a little playful glamour...

Did you dress up to watch the Oscars?
I wore my Gap Boyfriend jeans, a white tee and a navy cashmere cardigan...and slippers!

Mink brooch

Club Monaco chandelier earrings

These sparkly earrings are quite heavy so they do not get worn very often.

Vintage Marcel Boucher pin

Vintage Rhinestone brooch by Canadian designer Sherman 

another vintage Sherman, this one in aurora borealis crystals

Sherman again, in aurora borealis

Vintage baroque pearl, ebony, channel set marcasites a gift from lovely daughter.

I haven't been wearing my brooches much lately.

The students at school seemed to appreciate them and comment often on which one I was wearing but now that i am retired I have kept them tucked away...but they are not forgotten.

I am dressing for my new lifestyle and that includes the use of jewelry and accessories.

This Lilly wool boucle hat needs a bit of cheering up and how better to do it than add a bit of sparkle?

The pink butterfly pin is a vintage Sherman a gift from my MIL.

Did you watch the Oscars?

I thought that Ellen did an outstanding job hosting.

So many beautiful gowns and the jewels were fabulous...

the actresses look so gorgeous and they make it all look natural and easy.

Can you imagine how much work and planning goes into getting ready for a Red Carpet walk and an Oscar party?

The mind boggles...

Have some fun this week...Spring is on it's way!

Simon Chang meets Marcel Boucher

Saturday: matinee, live local Theatre production, with Mother.

Outfit: Ca va de Soi taupe tank, Black trousers, Simon Chang jacket,

Brown Nine West shoes.

Accessories: Diamond studs, diamond solitaire pendant, diamond engagement and anniversary rings.

and introducing Marcel Boucher...the brooch.

Boucher designed jewelry and apprenticed for Cartier in Paris in the late 1910's and early 20's. He was transferred to the New York branch in 1922 and continued making jewelry until the 1929 Wall Street crash. He worked in the costume jewelry business with the Mazer Brothers and then opened his own small company Boucher et Cie in 1937. He had a reputation for innovation and exceptional metalwork, his rhinestones were exquisitely cut and enameling so colorful that the pieces were often mistaken for precious jewels. Saks Fifth Avenue carried his designs, and when he died in 1965 his wife, also a French jewelry designer, Sandra Semensohn kept the company going until she sold it in 1972.