Ben-Amun Sample Sale Today

Five dollar earrings and stop-traffic trinkets at Ben-Amun sample sale where shoppers as eager to see the affable designer Issac Manevitz and his wife Regina as the art deco collection which was selling quickly.  Issac has his tool kit ready to shorten bracelets and necklaces. Get the same service as Ben-Amun fan Kate Moss today at 246 W. 38th Street 12A.
www.ben-amun.com

~nancy brenner

Report from the Front: Wendy Mink Sample Sale

Nancy Brenner brings GS back to life, post-vacay:

Confession: Rarely do I pay retail, but Wendy Mink is a purveyor of such delicately individualized pieces - bracelets, earrings and necklaces, that I even drop by the comfortable artsy boutique in between official sample sales succombing to irresistible retail wares.

I spied pieces starting at $15 and a gold cuff bracelet I coveted earlier in the season slashed to $50. Shoppers called all day in anticipation of the sample sale that started at noon.

Head there for first section of designs in striking shades of red or turquoise, bringing out the color of your eyes or the hue of your dress at prices that won't pop your purse.

Worst side effect: strangers will ask you where you bought your jewelry.  You can decide if you want to share the intel, keep it to yourself, or tell them you bagged it at Bergdorf.

72 Orchard Street
Friday March 19 12-8, Saturday 12-7, Sunday 12-6

Ike Designs: Special Offer on Earrings

April Showers bring May Flowers - AND LOTS OF COLOR! In honor of the gardens blooming day by day, Ike Designs is splashing color to your ears. Ike's May special sale is as colorful as the flowers coming to life each day. Earrings measuring about 1 and 1/4" in a myriad of gems are available for $22 each.

VISIT IKE DESIGNS BLOG AT: http://wwwikedesignsjewelry.blogspot.com//

Concentric Earrings

As promised, here are my new favorite earrings from Ike Designs jewelry. The original pair I laid my desirous eyes upon were almost exactly the same - except the bead in the middle was a black diamond.

Since I am the Guerilla Shopper, I figured my way out of spending that much on jewelry I was purchasing for myself and got something that looks almost the same, but for 40% less (i.e. it's not a black diamond).

Ike Designs Jewelry: I just can't get enough

So sue me. OK, please don't. But seriously I cannot get enough of Ike Designs Jewelry by Dori O'Dea. I went to a private showing on Sunday and flipped over the pieces you see pictured here. I have ordered earrings, which I will unveil once I receive them. But in the meantime, I debate over whether or not I should get the necklace with the 2 silver discs -- and what design I should get. She was showing the "D for Dori" sample. AH HA! Perhaps I should get a "G" on top and an "S" on the bottom.

Thank you for helping me work through this.

Otherwise, check out the chain on the one necklace with the stone pendant, and the design of the other necklace. She is planning to make earrings out of the series of discs, thus creating a set.

And the earrings pictured on top - especially the ones to the far left? Amazing. I want those too.

viv&ingrid stuff

I just lost one of my favorite earrings ever. I got them at Anna on E. 3rd. St. and in less than a week, POOF! Gone. Shit.

Well I found out that it was a viv&ingrid earring and that they still sell the lost earrings online! Yay! In three sizes! Yay! In silver and gold! Yay! For at least twice what I paid for them at Anna. BOO! These aren't even a photo of them, but I thought they were cool looking too.

And did you know that Paul Smith just opened a discount store in Williamsburg where prices are reduced by 30 percent. @80 Grand Street near Havermayer. Closed Monday.

Ike Designs Jewelry: COLORS OF SPRING

Relish the preview of Ike Designs' COLORS OF SPRING, which will be posted for sale through May AND June!

Prices for this collection range from $15 to $40 and include teeny-tiny turquoise, blue onyx, kyanite and lapis, fire opal, jade, pink opal, ruby, lavender jade, watermelon quartz, pink jade and more...

To access the sale items visit:
http://www.etsy.com/shop.php?user_id=5559110&section_id=5291373

IRIDESSE First-Ever Sample Sale - Apr. 28-30

This isn't my thing so much, but maybe for Mother's Day?

IRIDESSE First-Ever Sample Sale
Earrings • Necklaces • Strands • Rings • Bracelets

Cultured pearls of all kinds including: Freshwater • Akoya • South Sea • Tahitian

Exclusive Designs by:

IRIDESSE • Anthony Nak • Gabrielle Sanchez

Chrisse Coleman Douglas • Christian Tse

Prices are 50%-60% off retail at this 3 day event

Retail $250 to $9,000, now $100 to $4,500

Monday, April 28th, 11am to 7pm
Tuesday, April 29th, 9am to 7pm
Wednesday, April 30th9am to 6pm

The Warwich Hotel

65 West 54th Street in the Oxford Suite (Corner of 6th Avenue)

Mastercard, Visa and American Express and Cash accepted.

All sales final. No exchanges. No refunds.