Jolie

@joliekitsune

I do not auto follow back! Mostly lurking. Photographer, lover of books. Profile pic: a weeping angel statue from New Orleans, banner pic: wild fall cyclamen in bloom, surrounded by fallen cedar fronds

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Jolie@joliekitsune· 3d

@gateau.bsky.social This weekend’s cleanup jobs. Of the stones, I do suspect the flower mandala to be glass, but that blue dangle fluoresces just enough to make me think possible topaz. The purse took SO much cleaning, and there’s still a little more to do. But not a dent in sight!

5 sterling pendants. Clockwise from upper left, a simple mount with a black stone (onyx or obsidian?). A teardrop shaped mottled green and black serpentinite. A fancy teardrop with lots of small clear stones surrounding a blue stone dangle (possibly topaz). Flower mandala shape with many colored clear stones, probably glass. And a very cool oval of blue & white floral porcelain in an interesting angled silver mount.

An embossed silver or silverplate purse with a long, brailed silver strap coiled in front of it.

Jolie@joliekitsune· 11d

@hillarymonahan.bsky.social Question (possible favor): are you open to help rehome a 925 marked poison ring? Found this poor baby in my late husband’s stuff. Band has been flattened rather than properly resized. No idea of age, suspect it came to him from an antique shop. About 11g.

Lid to sterling poison ring features a large spider on a web.

Same ring on a table, showing how the back of the band has been flattened

Ring facing backward on the same ring sizer

Jolie@joliekitsune· 16d

@gateau.bsky.social My “I’ll know it when I see it” find. Moonstone and marcasite. Absolutely NOTHING like anything I’ve ever looked for, ever thought I’d wear. But when I came across it, could not stop going back to it!

Square white moonstone set in a white gold ring. A band of marcasite crosses the moonstone on a curved diagonal. Ring is pictured on a white woman’s hand.

Jolie@joliekitsune· 25d

@gateau.bsky.social OK, earring twin, here are the mates for our long lost earrings. Will DM with details Later, but wanted you to see them!

A pair of vintage sterling filigree heart earrings in a gift box, along with the vendor’s card and a sparkly bag.

Jolie@joliekitsune· 29d

I‘ve mostly stopped bottom feeding ebay auctions, but this one came in the mail today and I’m very pleased. Baltic amber in sterling settings, after first round of cleaning. Polishing the silver on the earrings is proving challenging, the cloth doesn’t fit well in all those crevices!

Coppery rust colored Baltic Amber oval cabochons set in vintage sterling silver earrings and matching pendant. All three pieces have a silver leaf shape to one side of the stone, and the earrings have a silver leaf on the ear wire above the dangle. The earrings still show more dull grey tarnish than the pendant after about an hour with a polishing cloth, they were really badly tarnished to start with.

Jolie@joliekitsune· Jul 14

Newest favorite rock is a piece of turritella agate with one polished side. Fossils inside are Elimia tenera, a freshwater snail. It was in a shop with a lot of more expensive specimens, but this small chunk kept drawing me back. It’s even more fascinating under a magnifying glass!

Turritells agate specimen rock, polished side. A brownish background of agate, with many cut specimens of long spiral shelled snails. You can see the many chambers that make up the shells.

The raw exterior of the same Turritella agate specimen. Greyish-brown rock with many whole & broken, white to grayish Elimia tenera shells exposed. The rock has a rough texture, and the different sized spiral shells are smoother.

Jolie@joliekitsune· Jul 11

Um…no judgment here… 🤣 Left is Wedgwood & clips onto your lipstick, right is old enough that it has its own refillable(?)tube, which…no, I haven’t used.

Two vintage brass lipstick holders with mirrors. Left is decorated with a Wedgwood cameo of the three Graces dancing, white on green; right is a flat brass oval with concentric grooves.

The same two vintage lipstick holders, now opened to show their mirrors. The left one clicks onto a plastic lipstick tube case; the right one comes apart to reveal a refillable brass casing (currently propping up the mirror) that you apparently stuff a stick of lipstick into? Sounds messy.

Jolie@joliekitsune· Jul 8

You mean this single heart earring that I also can’t find the mate to? 😂

Silver filigree heart earring from the 1980s

Jolie@joliekitsune· Jul 7

These two were a thrift find, at around $20 each. Both are marked; they were nearly black with tarnish when I bought them, but obviously they cleaned up pretty well. Purple appears to be charoite, blue is a little odd in that it’s dyed golden rutile quartz. At the price, I couldn’t resist!

Two sterling pendants with bezel mounted stones, next to a U.S. quarter for scale. One pendant has a purple stone with a swirly grain pattern, the other has a navy blue backed clear stone shot through with straight metallic gold threads of a second mineral.

Jolie@joliekitsune· Jun 29

Oh my galaxies… @peculiarityshop.bsky.social Impossible to catch the colors or fire of these aurora opals in just one pic, so here are four. @beckymew.bsky.social was right, no need to worry about the pendant matching! PURE JOY!!! The whistle was honestly a bright spot too on a crappy morning. 💕

On a purple tissue paper background, a pair of aurora opal teardrop earrings and matching rounded rectangle pendant, all bezel mounted in sterling. The opals are flashing in all colors of the rainbow. Also pictured, a 3d printed whistle in two shades of blue, a polishing cloth, and a business card for www.peculiarityshop.com.

Same opals, showing mostly yellow-green and plum colors with hints of pink.

Same opals from another angle, now mostly a dark fiery pink and more muted purple.

One more pic of the same opals, now showing more green and blue, but still some bold pink. The pendant has almost a striped look in this one.

Jolie@joliekitsune· Jun 27

Every time you say there’s more mail, I’m seeing this… “Thank you, Thing!” 😆

From the original, black and white TV series, Morticia Addams is thanking Thing, a hand in a box, for delivering the mail to her. Morticia is a white woman with long black hair, wearing a form fitting black dress.

Jolie@joliekitsune· Jun 18

Well, shit, those look familiar. *rummages through beads* Someone better save me quick!

Jolie@joliekitsune· Jun 18

A bit nervous how they’ll look together, but…I think they’ll be OK

Blue green aurora opal teardrop earrings

Jolie@joliekitsune· Jun 16

LOL I already have earrings from a QueerVC last month that I paired with a necklace I’ve had forever…and it’s a good thing they go with black, because I still haven’t found anything purple to wear them with!

Sterling & purple amethyst necklace & earrings

Jolie@joliekitsune· Oct 11

I miss Dave so much. But damn, what a game.

A embroidered patch memorializing Seattle Mariners’ broadcaster Dave Niehaus & his famous call of My Oh My.

Jolie@joliekitsune· Jan 20

This is what I saw in my feed over on Mastodon (using Ivory for iOS, in case that previews differently somehow). No idea if that’s the right image, since when I clicked through to your site, it gave me a ? where the image should be. Isn’t technology fun? 🙄