Tilly Types

New Earrings Designs

Object Earrings, from the mundane, to the... mundane? Yes: wooden pegs, pen nibs, shoes and even the humble screw. But aren't the most lowly objects often the most lovely? They certainly make for curious ear decor.

 

New Buttons!

Buttons, buttons everywhere. 15 new button designs, including Edgar the violin-playing Elephant, Bird Nest Bella, Prime Time and Rainy Monday. Choose any 5 buttons for $7, available here.

Golden Compass Brooch

This large and elegant brooch is inspired by Philip Pullman's 'The Golden Compass'. An elegant polar bear with gold leaf and parts from a dismantled vintage compass.

Limited Edition of 7.

Golden Compass Brooch @ TillyBloom.Etsy.com

New Anatomical Necklaces

I sold my first piece of anatomy jewelry over a year ago, an intricate hand-drawn brain. It was followed shortly by a tongue, a pelvis and a ribcage... I still love to use anatomical diagrams.
  Wear you heart of your sleeve, and a pelvis on your neck. "I love having a pelvis on my neck. How many people can say that?" I find in my feedback. Splendid!
My newest designs have brightly-colored, 3D touches... 

  Butterflies in the Stomach Necklace @ TillyBloom.Etsy.com

Smile Necklace @ TillyBloom.Etsy.com

Inside My Chest Necklace @ TillyBloom.Etsy.com

Pretty Eggs

Eggs, originally uploaded by Tilly Bloom.

I pilfered these from the nests of unsuspecting little tweeters ;-)

Bird Egg Trio Necklace @ TillyBloom.Etsy.com

Beth and Bob the Butterfly

Beth, originally uploaded by Tilly Bloom.

Beth, in her smart raincoat, hat and buttoned boots holds onto her pet butterfly.
With his bright, beautiful wings you'd think she'd of given him a more fitting name than Bob....

Beth Necklace @ TillyBloom.Etsy.com

Audubon Necklaces

A few of my favorite birds, the Cuckoo, the Silver Gyrfalcon and the silly little Quail.

Bird Necklaces @ TillyBloom.Etsy.com

Tea Cup & Faux Bois

Bella hiding in her teacup necklace...


Faux Bois, woodgrain brooch...

Made/Found

 

This 'business card' looks rather like a piece of found ephemera...

Wee Beasties

You see, I told you there would be more!

Beastie Cuff Links @ TillyBloom.Etsy.com

Auto Cuff Links

At last, something for the man-people.
Or, at least, the French-Shirt-People. Little automobiles from the early 20th Century to grace that crisp white shirt.
Keep your peepers open for many more cuff link designs.

Auto Cuff Links @ TillyBloom.Etsy.com

Finch Trio

Third Finch out!

This stunning 3-part necklace features 3 funny finches in a row.

Finch Necklace @ TillyBloom.Etsy.com

Fetish Earrings

Plump and charming little bird earrings, inspired by Zuni Fetishes.

A fetish is an object believed to have supernatural powers and the Zuni are a Native American people from the New Mexico area who make the most wonderful pottery and carvings.

They remind me of the wondrous creatures in Miyazaki's films...

Fetish Earrings @ TillyBloom.Etsy.com

Destroy Your Enemies

How do you destroy your enemies?
With a cannon of course!

Cannon Necklace @ TillyBloom.Etsy.com

Bunny Necklace

This lithe, lovely bunny will bound along your chest to the delight of all who see.

Le Lapin @ TillyBloom.Etsy.com

Gone Cuckoo

The face of this Bavarian Cuckoo Clock is Bella's. She's been feeling a little odd lately. A large, elegant and peculiar pendant.

Gone Cuckoo @ TillyBloom.Etsy.com

Reindeer

Just in time for Christmas, this charming Reindeer has wondrous antlers as long as his body, he is the wise old man of the tundra...
Reindeer Necklace @ TillyBloom.Etsy.com

New Things at Shop Tilly Bloom

Hello Fine Fellows, how are you this day?

  It is time for a little update, to let you know the latest from Shop Tilly Bloom.
  A new section has been created called 'Upgrade', it contains 3 special services:

  * Express Shipping Upgrade
  * Gift wrap and ship
  * Upgrade to an 18" chain

Gifts are nestled in a pretty hand-stamped box, wrapped in Japanese workbook paper and  tied with scarlet yarn, with a free 1" button in the middle.

There are peculiar new necklaces, encluding the Wonderlandesque 'Dodo Love'...

... 'Camera Nostalgia', 'The Outcasts' and 'Samsa'.

And a special thank you to Design Sponge for featuring my 'Mythology of Beauty' Print!

Tilly on You Tube!

Some Splendid new items

Two New Prints

Pacifist, originally uploaded by Tilly Bloom.

I'm quite pleased with how these prints turned out, particularly the composition of 'Smoked Fish and Caviar' and the Chinese text background of 'Pacifist'.

Limited Edition Prints @ TillyBloom.Etsy.com $10 - $12

Disembodied

Eliza & Eye,

I've had an obsession of sorts, for many a year, with body parts. Not the body in whole, but it's parts, be they inside or out. The lungs, a spine, an arm.
Disembodied.
It was the original inspiration for my illustration jewelry, the fist thing I created, a year ago, was a Brain necklace.
Before then I had been making little "scenes" using dolls arms and heads and eyeballs.  This was back in autumn 2001 when 'body parts' and 'human remains' where words you couldn't escape.
It's time to go back there, to those arms and legs. They'll always have that dark connotation lingering in the background, but it's time to use them in a new way. In light-hearted, witty manner, with references to the absurdists and surrealists.

Eliza and Eye, $38

A Splendid Sale!

Sale

Time to make way for all of the wonderful new bracelets I've been working on. In with in the New, and that sort of thing.
The sale section of my shop now has bracelets at 50% off, only $10 (yes, ten bobs!) each. I will be sad to see them go, particularly the bright, happy 'Summer Corn' one, the peculiar 'Long View' one and the charming 'Audubon Dreaming' one.

Do take a peep, One-of-a-kind bracelets, $10 at TillyBloom.Etsy.com

My New Gocco Printed Business Cards

My New Gocco Printed Business Cards, originally uploaded by Tilly Bloom.

I printed this on lovely card stock in deep blood red, gold, lilac, avocado green and yellow. I think I like the gold (middle) one the most, though I'm partial to anything red. I like the lack of contract in the the red ones, your eyes glide over them and the 'hiddenness' of the image make you look back, more closely.

Hitchcock Bracelets

Hitchcock Bracelets,

Just finished a very nice batch of Hitchcock bracelets. I love the bright blue behind the black and white stills, one is backed in dark Walnut woodgrain, which also looks great, but I think I like the red ones the most.
I will be doing many more movie bracelets, including a series on film from the '70s. After that, I plan on doing movies from the golden age of Hollywood in the '40s & '50s. I'd love to do a series on silent movies, but I'm afraid they sadly wouldn't have much appeal.

Hitchcock bracelets on sale at TillyBloom.Etsy.com

Making many bracelets...

Making many bracelets,

I'm working on many new bracelets which will be up on my Etsy shop soon.
This one is 'Wispy Blue Alien Girls of Venus'...

Fresh Batch of Necklaces

Typewriter,

  A Black Swan, a Chest X-ray, another Brain... these are a few of the new necklace designs now on sale in my Etsy shop.
I'm particularly fond of the 'Fellow in the Stocks' necklace, nothing like adorning yourself with a bit of medieval public humiliation!

See them at TillyBloom.Etsy.com

Mythology of Beauty

Mythology of Beauty,

Bella as a chimera, two-headed and griffin-like. She holds in her claws a scepter and shapes, her mien and expression noble....

I'm dead chuffed with this print, I love the symmetry of Bella's feathered body and the asymmetry of the symbolic items she hold in her claws. I'm still most attracted to the black and white, with just a suggestion of red in the seal.

I also printed this illustration on pages of an antique book in German, which came out splendidly.

Mythology of Beauty Print, $12
Chimera Print, $10

Bird Nest Bella - My first gocco print!

A family of Chickadee birds have made the home in poor, bewildered Bella's hair. A mama tends her 3 tiny chicks and the noble papa looks on.
Bella's Mona Lisa smile is ambiguous, is she amused, annoyed, proud?

I created this image in a mixture of hand drawing by pencil and digital fussing; to bring together multiple antique illustrations, creating something new, charming and slightly odd.

This print, which is a limited edition of 200, is signed and numbered on the back.

Look out for Bella in many more strange and charming art prints to come.

$12 at TillyBloom.etsy.com

Strange and Lovely Illustration Necklaces

I've been working on these illustrations for some time and they are finally ready to be made into these necklaces. I'm very interested in using vintage illustrations in simple, clean collages. Putting things together to make a new an peculiar new image, like the Snowy Owl on and Antique Stripe Sofa or the decorative keyhole on a beautiful face.

$19 - $25 at TillyBloom.Etsy.com