Jewels of the Month: Designs for Ukraine

In February, following my Valentine’s Day post, I promised myself I was heading to turn above a new leaf in March — proper in time for spring — and go again to running a blog routinely. I was fairly the prolific blogger for virtually 13 a long time. I even blogged via the 1st few of months of the pandemic. Then arrived May perhaps 25, 2020, when cop Derek Chauvin murdered George Floyd in Minneapolis. Ahead of that day, I’d been paying out most of my spare time and energy on activism, but after the murder, I was consumed with participating in (and speaking about) avenue activism. At the exact time, of study course, lifestyle was ever-a lot more disrupted for every person as the pandemic raged on, with the vaccine rollout however half a yr absent — not that we knew we’d get a vaccine that quickly or that some of us would commence protesting a lifetime-saving shot pretty much straight away.

Very little has truly transformed as considerably as the requires on my time. I’d even started out 2022 by resurrecting my weekly Indivisible Activate NYC activism newsletter, right after putting that job apart adhering to the November 2020 presidential election. But I’ve been bothered by my blog site neglect, and in particular by the point that I’d published many Jewel of the Thirty day period posts on the extremely previous day of the thirty day period. That ain’t proper! So I resolved, on February 14, that March 2022 would be my month for receiving back on observe in this article.

Ten days afterwards, Russia invaded Ukraine.

As I mentioned in my Oscars submit a pair of days in the past, I have been sharing my Ukraine-associated activities — as effectively as other activism — on my personal Instagram, but not here. I just have not experienced the capacity for far more composing, thinking of that I’m doing further newsletters to maintain up with breaking information, as well as keeping a working list of in-person Ukraine-supporting situations having place in New York Metropolis. So below I am, on the very last working day of the thirty day period, with a Jewel of the Thirty day period write-up, which is not even about the personalized structure I prepared to produce about. I’ve determined to help you save that for far more considerate therapy following month.

In its place, I want to reiterate what I’ve by now shared on Instagram: Any whole-value order of any of my jewelry from 1stdibs.com will final result in a generous donation to a person of the nonprofits supporting Ukraine.

As normally, when I make donations from revenue, I will supply receipts.

Anything I sell on 1stdibs is both 18K gold or platinum, so I’ll draw interest to two of the cheapest-priced products there. My Jewels of the Thirty day period are solitary stud earrings from my punk collection that are out there for $550 each. You can get my barbed wire stud in 18K gold with diamonds for that price tag …

… or my 18K gold and diamond pentagram stud. I assume some benevolent witchcraft would be a great idea, no?

I’ve also received a person silver piece to toss into the fund-elevating blend: My hard-performing Terrible necklace — which is frequently recruited to raise money for women’s leads to — is offered for $300 on my possess website.

If you purchase a Horrible necklace, you can select involving a $100 donation going to Razom for Ukraine or to Abortion Entry Front, mainly because the assault on reproductive legal rights is an escalating crisis here at property. Keep in mind, I’m just highlighting these individual models. Donations will be built for ANY full-value obtain on 1stdibs, so if you’re prepared to invest $40,000 on my a single-of-a-sort Empress Wu dragon earrings …

… you’ll get a museum-worthy piece of wearable artwork and make some Ukrainian fundraisers extremely content.

As often, I’m pleased to reply any issues about the jewellery, donations, or working with the web site. If you want some support, holla at me at info at wendybrandes.com. Also, you should ship thoughts and prayers for my turning over my new blogging leaf in April!