Fancy Dress Friday: something old, something new, something you edition

Posted on August 24, 2012 by Aubin

This past week at Turtle Love Co. has been dedicated to weddings and modern twists on classic things.

We began the week with a guest post from August’s Vintage Style Council member of the month, Laura from sweeter salt. She showed us how to style a nautical themed outfit around our Classic Floating Pearl Necklace with Red Silk. To read Laura’s guest post, click here.

Turtle Love Co.’s Classic Floating Pearl Necklace with Red Silk

On Wednesday we shared another found vintage wedding photograph from our collection, which was labeled only “Marvin and Wanda” on the back. The post also included some late 1960s etiquette from Emily Post about the order in which the wedding and engagement rings should be worn. Click the photo below to be taken to the post:

A vintage wedding photo from Turtle Love Co.’s collection labeled only “Marvin and Wanda”

Thursday’s blog post was a trip down the memory lane of puppet popular culture with a post called “How to propose and get married Muppet style.” The post features videos of a wedding on Sesame Street with Elmo as the ringbearer, The Count trying to propose to his girlfriend but getting distracted by counting the things he loves about her, and this upbeat wedding preparation song from the 1984 movie The Muppets Take Manhatan:

The most important news of the week, however, is that we’re starting something new and exciting on our facebook page!

Post a picture on our facebook page of you wearing your Turtle Love Co. jewelry and you could be our cover photo for an entire week!

Our customers are very special to us and we love seeing the pictures we’re sent of people wearing and loving the jewelry they bought from Turtle Love Co. so we would love to share your joy with the world! Starting next week on Monday, August 27, we will choose one photo of our customers with their jewelry to be featured each week as the cover photo on our Facebook page. We can’t wait to see your pictures!

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That’s all for now from the team at Turtle Love Co.! One of our own, Miss Aubin (who is rocking the pilot’s hat in this picture) is off to become Mrs. Aubin as she gets married on Saturday. Are any of you getting married this weekend too?

Fancy Dress Friday: Farewell, Xander edition

Posted on August 17, 2012 by Aubin

Yesterday was a sad day at Turtle Love Co. because it was the last day of work for Xander, our awesome Smile Specialist and Product Pro. We wish her well and know she’ll be excellent at everything she does. To send her off in style, we all went bowling at Bayside Bowl in Portland and had a fun time trying to get the right spin on the ball (only a few of us managed to perfect the technique).

: Scenes from Xander’s goodbye party at Bayside Bowl

This past week was sort of an experimental one for the blog. We expanded beyond inspiration boards (although we did feature a style inspiration board about Bree Richey’s jewelry on Monday) and wrote about such varied topics as an auction this past week that included some unique pieces of jewelry owned by Elvis Presley and a new feature we’re trying out called “Drawn Together” that is about the sketches people do while planning their wedding. This week’s Drawn Together picture is from our TLC team member Aubin, who is getting married next Saturday and shared the drawing she’d done for her wedding announcements.

A vintage 1960s wedding photo from Turtle Love Co.’s collection

Another new feature introduced this past week involves vintage wedding photos paired with etiquette from the time when the picture was taken. Some of the vintage wedding photographs used are from Turtle Love Co.’s own collection of found photographs.

Our Elisabetta Vintage Diamond Engagement Ring (click the ring for more info)

In other vintage news, we have 12 new vintage engagement rings listed on our website! These antique engagement rings are the ones featured in our shoot at Little Ghost Vintage and are named after female fine artists throughout history.

That’s all for now from the fabulous team at Turtle Love Co.! We hope you have a fantastic weekend!

Fancy Dress Friday: gold branches, dinosaurs, and Little Ghosts edition

Posted on August 10, 2012 by Aubin

This week has been decidedly different, full of vintage rings, dinosaur necklaces, and gold branch jewelry. We’ve also been enjoying having our new team member Emily with us for the entire week. This is her first Fancy Dress Friday photo with us, the first of many!

The two Currently Loving posts from the past week, by Emily from Tales for Karina Marie and Ashley from Sweet William, offered a fresh take on styling two of our necklaces. Ashley paired Jivita Harris-Casey’s Branching Necklace with Michele Scholnick’s Gold Branches Ring for a pin board dedicated to the style of the type of girl who gets her fashion cues from nature. Emily, on the other hand, used her own modern style to incorporate our Triceratops Dinosaur Necklace into an outfit for the early fall.

Gold-Plated Bronze Branching Necklace by Jivita Harris-Casey

Our most recent “Turtle Love Co. on location” adventure was a trip to the local Portland store Little Ghost Vintage. While there, we were joined by our Vintage Style Council Member of the Month Laura of sweeter salt for a vintage engagement ring photo shoot. We photographed 11 of our antique engagement rings using props from the store like ceramic figurines, purses, and vintage hats! Laura wrote a blog post about the shoot (as well as her thoughts about being our VSC Member of the Month) that you can read here. Below is a picture of Laura modeling our Lucia Vintage Diamond Engagement Ring. You can see the rest of the photos in our “Turtle Love Co. on location” blog post here.

Laura modeling our Lucia Vintage Diamond Engagement Ring

That’s all for now! Do you have any exciting plans for the weekend?

Fancy Dress Friday: new arrivals edition

Posted on August 3, 2012 by Aubin

This past week was one of new arrivals of both inventory and employees here at Turtle Love Co. To begin with, we got a new batch of vintage engagement rings, which is always exciting for us! After carefully naming them, Alicia wrote up an excellent blog post about how she names the rings and included some previews of our new rings, which she named after female fine artists throughout history.

The Louise Vintage Diamond Engagement Ring with its namesake the American sculptor Louise Nevelson.

We will be photographing these new antique rings at the local Portland, Maine store Little Ghost Vintage. We also recently did a photo shoot at another Portland business, The Green Hand book store, with some other old engagement rings from our collection. Part of Turtle Love Co.’s philosophy is to actively participate in the local community so we love the chance to collaborate with other local businesses!

The other exciting event this week is the arrival of Emily, our new Smile Specialist and Product Pro. Although she technically joins our staff on Monday she went out to lunch with us on Thursday to celebrate at a local diner. We’ve made a resolution to take more pictures to share with you when we have outings like this, but we only managed to take a handful of photos at lunch, including:

the fine provolone-topped burger and home fries that Alicia ordered

this fine provolone-topped burger and home fries

and this group picture with Emily, who somehow knew to wear a black shirt like the rest of us coincidentally did. She’ll fit in just fine here!

That’s all for now from the TLC team. Have you all been enjoying the Olympic games? I know we’ve already had one marriage proposal before the games even began, but I’m secretly hoping for another before they end on the 12th!

This week’s Fancy Dress Friday photo, with a graffiti smiley face standing in for Emily, who will be in next week’s picture and no doubt look better than the smiley face does.

Fancy Dress Friday: dogs and ring designs edition

Posted on July 27, 2012 by Aubin

We’re being visited in the office today by Xander’s fabulous and well behaved dog, Bea (seen here in our Fancy Dress Friday TLC family portrait). Bea’s visit is just the icing on the cake of a productive week here at Turtle Love Co., which included everything from social media conferences to officially announcing the winners of our first annual jewelry design contest!

On Monday we shared a photo from our vintage ring shoot at The Green Hand, a magnificent used book store in Portland, Maine. Michelle, the owner of The Green Hand, helped us choose a selection of beautiful antique hardcover books to photograph some of our vintage engagement rings on. Here is our Josephine Vintage Diamond Engagement Ring resting on the gorgeous green, blue, and gold cover of one of the books. Thanks again to Michelle for letting us explore her shop- it was the perfect backdrop for our antique engagement rings and we came away with some interesting books too!

Turtle Love Co Josephine Vintage Diamond Engagement Ring

Our Josephine vintage Diamond Engagement Ring

Our most popular blog post this week is Alicia’s ode to The Big Lebowski entitled “How finding my inner Dude helped me love my wedding day: 5 easy steps.” In it, she offers tips for de-stressing by taking cues from the movie’s hero like, among other things, enjoying a game of bowling.

Our Currently Loving guest posts for the week came from Carly from Miss Teacups and Laura of Fore Front Fashion, who chose our Sterling Silver Wide Vine Ring and Vintage Art Deco Style Diamond Necklace as their respective favorites. Carly’s Country-chic themed post can be found here and Laura’s 1920s flapper inspired post is here.

Now, as a bonus, enjoy this photo of Bea elegantly modeling our Classic Floating Pearl Necklace with Red Silk!

Bea modeling our Classic Floating Pearl Necklace with Red Silk