Teepee!!!

Photos courtesy Jezebel (see blog list on right)

Let me just say that Teepee is the inspiration for a new Bittersweets bracelet that is soon to be unveiled online. If Teepee wore a wee little bracelet, what would it look like? Go to Catbird and find out in person! See below for photo!

Gold flowers, wax and precious gems!

The latest design with the flowers is the Black Eyed Susan Ring shown here with a thick band. Catbird has the teensy band version with a single flower.





Here's how the flowers look before the casting process.



Yellow gold and amethyst earrings for Janka's god daughter.

Baby Vamps with Black Diamonds

Josie & Michelle!

Thanks for the pics! What a beautiful wedding, bride, & groom. xoxoxox r

Photo by Raymond

Raymond took these incredible photos of the shop. Here's a link to the flickr post of more pretty images of Bittersweet's Boutique:

Nice Customer of the Month Award Goes to...

Jon!!! I got this darling email from him and asked if I could share it all with you! Aaaaawe, aint love grand?!

Hi Robin,
I did receive the rings that you sent. I'm VERY sorry for not sending you a picture or describing the AWESOME reaction from her!

The day before the Vamp rings came in I bought some "Cracker Jack Box" style rings. When the Vamp rings came in I gave the crappy rings to her (she likes little things like that). Of course as I gave her those rings she got excited and thought they might be the Vamp rings. So as her excitement faded for the Vamp rings but the excitement for the other rings was at its highest, I pulled out the Vamp rings! For a solid 15 minutes I couldn't understand anything but "giggle", "OH MY GOD!" and "They're perfect!"
Thank You SOOOO much for making jewelry that isn't boring and looks like everything else! I'll be sending you a picture asap!
What do we do for engagement/wedding rings? By her reaction I'm not sure that much can top that!

Thank you!
Jon

first letter necklace with new lower case stamps!

Now, when you order letter rings, lil ID bracelets or letter necklaces, you can choose CAPITALS, lower case, or a ComBinAtiOn tHerEof !

New Rings!

Sneak Preview of the New Letter Ring Stamps!!! That is one fancy " D L A " ring!



And here's a sneak, sneak preview of the lower case letter rings. Agnes is a name that my friend Eddie picked out. He's so handsome and smart that I had to make a little ring. Prrrretttttyyy!

James

I don't have a photo for this, and it has been over 3 months, but our beautiful kitty James passed on. I realized, that I should let people know, who came to the shop and loved him as well. I will miss him forever.11.13.08



Well, here's a photo. Not sure how appropriate it is, but I can only hope that our beautiful James is lettin' it all hang out in kitty heaven.

My Sister

So, I guess my memory is off, but I remember my sister having a monogrammed sweater with just her initials, and not the entire name spelled out. And I only mention this, because it's the inspiration for the new letter rings I'm working on. They are a slightly thicker gauge wire, with a 3 letter limit, using a stamp kit of capital, cursive, letters. My memory of her being super glamorous is spot on, however!

Frame made by mom, 1987.

I know you've seen this, but don't you need to see it everytime you look at the Bittersweets Blog? Yes, you do.

If you missed the Valentine email last week, then you missed a very posed picture of the bunny with his new sweetie pie. She has ears that just don't quit!
She was delivered via US Postal Service, and from what we could make of the return address, she came from the exotic land of 1+1Avenue & Hop-DeglofflenPlace. Thank goodness for idle hands and bum knees. Not really, but that's how the bunny got his own mail-order-valentine, just in time!

Behold, The Creature Ring! Bigger & Better!

Well, maybe bigger isn't better, but we're just excited that we made a larger size for our weird Creature Ring. What, you're a size 14, 15? No problem, we've got a ring for you! Here's what really happened: A darling gal, Susan, ordered this ring as a 12.5 and the largest size we offered was a 9. It got us to thinking, "Yeah, why be a sizest? Why not make this ring as big as it can possible be? It is after all called the 'Creature Ring'".

Does anyone out there actually have fingers that big? Did we just turn it to 11? Please write to us and send us a photo if you have 14 or larger digits! If you must know, we can make this bigger, it's just that the ring mandrel won't even go past a certain point. If we make one big enough, a smaller person could wear it as a bracelet. Stay tuned...

Manmachine Is Here.

www.FIGHTEVILWITHEVIL.com

Vampire Charm + Lovely Gal

Another Bittersweets gal sends us gorgeous pics, and she also has a lovely blog: http://lulukieran.wordpress.com/2008/09/18/lulus-present-is-appreciated/

Miss Park on Christmas Eve, Brooklyn NY!

Park is the beauty sitting behind the workbench on most weekends. She's been with Bittersweets for a year!!!
We saw this photo that her friend took just a few weeks ago, and begged to have it on the site. We love her!

Another Bittersweets Beauty...

Love, love, love, getting emails, letters, and pictures from bittersweets gals!
I don't have a links page on my site, but here's the best I can do: http://davissuicides.blogspot.com/
Thank you Clare!

Congratulations Robin & Kait!

Kait & Robin sent me these lovely photos. Keep the wedding photos comin'!!

Bittersweets Girls are the Best in the World!

Shanida sent a gift all the way from the UK! It's an adorable bunny stamp, a documentary, and a very sweet letter. Thank you! xoxo robin




Last Christmas, Helen from Florida made an adorable "Evil Cupcake" scarf! And it smells so yummy too! Thank you Helen. We love it and the mix CD!!!

Megan's Ring!

Megan just took the wax/metal class and we love the ring she made!

Penelope!

Penelope came all the way from the U.K. to pay us a visit. I had to get a photo of this adorable gal in baby vamp rings & hot, hot nail polish. Love you, Penelope!!!

Jeff Barnett-Winsby Visits Bittersweets!

And he took some photos of the shop! Look at more photos by Jeff : http://jbwphoto.com/

2 Years on Broadway! Here's the party pics.

Thanks to Hope for getting a ton of Kiehl's samples. They gave us lottsa goodies for our pinata.



BEST beeer in Brooklyn!!!














The pinata fell to the ground and didn't break after the first hit, and so we played "baseball pinata" with it, (notice the lack of blindfold). That did the trick. I love the cigarette in the mouth whilst batting. Thanks Sunnie & friend, for being in charge of that activity.















revelers:
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intr.v. rev·eled also rev·elled, rev·el·ing also rev·el·ling, rev·els also rev·els
1. To take great pleasure or delight: She reveled in her unaccustomed leisure.
2. To engage in uproarious festivities; make merry.
n.
A boisterous festivity or celebration; merrymaking. Often used in the plural.
[Middle English revelen, to carouse, from Old French reveler, to rebel, carouse, from Latin rebellre, to rebel; see rebel.







Sweet baby Uli and Erica. They came in the shop the first week we were open. We loooove them!

He's Back!

Sometime the next day, after walking in and out of the shop numerous times, I'd been hearing him "peep-peeping" all day, when finally, I see him perched on our basil plant ready to hop right back into the shop. I took the extra opportunity to snap another close-up. I watched mama bird fly down to feed through the crack in the door and the next day he was gone.

I always knew it was a ZOO over here, but this is ridiculous!

I was mopping the floor on my hands and knees for a particularly rough patch (thanks bunny,) and I looked up to find this adorable baby bird no less than two feel away! I grabbed my camera and took a photo! I wrapped him in tissue and left him out under the tree in front of the shop.

James The Cat!

Link for cartoon here!

An adorable gal came into Bittersweets and commented that there was a cartoon with a big white cat named James! We looked it up on youtube and sure enough, it is this awesome cartoon with a hilarious theme song about James the cat getting fat! How appropriate!

And here's our James. See any resemblance?

Woke Up the Bunny!

This is Bunny's favorite spot to sleep. But he is easily disturbed! Poor Buns!