You might remember that I mentioned Osier in my post about the Unwrapped markets - I bought a little black pistol brooch. I recently looked up her Etsy shop and it's all so cute, like it was custom designed specifically to Gin in a Teacup taste! Here's my picks.

How cute is this little bunny ring? For some reason it makes me think of Em from Lick My Cupcakes, maybe because she and this ring are both adorable? I would wear it with a Chanel-inspired mint green manicure, a white lace dress and tan heels.

One of my favourite books is Love is a Mix Tape by Rob Sheffield, and as a child of the 90's I feel very nostalgic about cassettes. To be honest the first mix tape I ever made was for Boy when we started dating and that was well out of the 90's, but rest assured, many mix tapes have been made in honour of unreciprocated crushes. I have a metal mix tape necklace but I've never seen one made out of an actual cassette before... this one is definitely the coolest I've seen!

As I think I've mentioned before, my dad collects owl figurines and it has definitely influenced my sartorial choices. So it seems strange that this brooch shares the same name as him (and Boy, incidentally!). As you may have picked up on, I have been seriously into brooches recently, after years of buying them and then never finding anything that they looked good with - I think all my years of wearing pinback badges as a tween scarred me for life (not literally, although those pins do hurt). Anyway, if you are so owl-y inclined, you can purchase Christopher the Owl as a brooch, ring or a number of other formats.

So if you get a chance check out the Osier Etsy store. I was lucky to talk to the designer for a bit at the markets and not only is she super sweet, but she also has her own blog!

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I was reading through Em's blog the other day (creepy? Discuss), and she mentioned a necklace from Etsy shop CuteAbility. It was an adorable necklace, so I thought I would go and have a look. This stuff is pretty much MADE for me. It has teacups! And features food as jewellery a lot of the time! Eeee!

Cupcake ring from Honeypop Jewellery

I was trawling through Etsy a few nights back, and while searching for "cupcake rings" I found the irresistably cute jewlery by Honeypop Jewellery. Even the name screams adorable! If Claudia Kishi was a real person, I think that she would spend all her BSC money on these babies. It was extremely hard to narrow down 17 pages of items to six or seven favourites, but here they are...

Um. I NEED THIS RING. I am actually going to a vinyl record fair in a couple of weeks. I would wear this with a cute tartan skirt, sparkly gold stockings, a cardigan and a massive pair of headphones. I'm sure that it would help me charm the sellers into giving me $5 off The Beatles' White Album.

My dinosaur friend (I have named him Steven) would be infintely helpful in uni exams. I would wear him with a little black sweater dress, jeans that are so ripped they're almost falling apart, and an inexcusably loud pair of pink Doc Martens. I have a feeling he would know a lot about anthropology.

This skeleton hands necklace is deliciously creepy and a nice contrast to lots of the overly girly stuff on the site. I think these would look fantastic worn somewhere unexpected, like to the ballet, and worn with something innocent enough to offset the creepiness. A floral dress with a cardigan and delightfully whimiscal shoes would match these perfectly.

I don't know why, but I LOVE when jewellery is made to look like food. These pizza slice earrings are some of my favourites. These would look scrumptious worn on a quiet night in with your lover, watching Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind and eating a big bowl of popcorn. You could be wearing a pair of scummy old PJ's but at least your ears will look cute!

Since I read Sparkle and Glitter's most recent Sparkle Shopping article, I have been obsessed with the idea of a big plastic diamond necklace. I'm kind of uneasy about owning a real one after watching Blood Diamond, and I think that having such a huge, gaudy, plastic diamond necklace is kind of hilarious. Anyway, I would wear this one out with friends at an intimate Chinese restuarant, with a sequinned tuxedo jacket, skinny black jeans, and dominatrix-esque heels. Pearly fingernails would complete the look.

I think I actually HAD these Barbie shoes. How adorable that they're turned into earrings! I think the only way to wear these would be to a girly movie with your best friends, paired with a spotted pencil skirt, singlet and matching pumps to the ones in the earrings.

Finally, this adorable soda pop ring would be perfect worn to the birthday party of anyone you love. Wear it with a dress that would make Betsey Johnson jealous and a tiara in your hair, and be sure to use erratic and dramatic hand gestures so that everybody notices this slice of gorgeousness sitting prettily on your hand. Make sure to wear a baby pink manicure to complement it!

A long post, but I had fun putting it together! All the pieces here are VERY reasonably priced, so get in quick!

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I'm sure most of you already know about the wonderful Indygrrrl, but I thought that I would feature my favourite pieces from her Etsy store!

This is also one of my favourites. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory was one of my favourite books as a kid, and the original movie is also high on my list! If I saw anyone wearing this I would pretty much beg them to marry me. It is awesome.

All of these plus more drool-inducing pieces can be found at Indygrrrl's Etsy store. I really hope you check it out, she seems spectacularly nice and makes pretty pieces as well, what more could you want?

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