Jeweler Born with No Fingers Creates Masterpieces Worth Thousands of Dollars
For a person born without fingers, 48-year-old Annette Gabbedey has the most unusual job – she is one of Britain’s most talented jewelry designers and an expert goldsmith. It is surprising that she doesn’t even use special tools to help her work around her condition. Instead, she adapts conventional crafting devices to make the most […]
English Artist Creates Expensive Broaches Inspired by Pigeon Droppings
Pigeon droppings may be smelly and disgusting, but did you know they could also be an inspiration for jewelry? Don’t worry, no one’s actually putting droppings in jewelry. But an English artist is making broaches that resemble the shape, size and color of pigeon poo. 30-year-old Frances Wadsworth-Jones, from Ealing, West London, has created a […]
French Artist Gives Insect Larvae the Chance to Make Their Own Jewelry
French artist Hubert Duprat supplies Caddisfly larvae with precious materials like gold flakes, opal, turquoise, rubies, and pearls which they use to build protective casings which can be strung and worn as unique pieces of jewelry. Caddisfly larvae live in rivers and streams, where they collect natural materials like gravel, sand, twigs and just about anything else they can […]
Designer Covers $500,000 Gold Ring with a Piece of His Own Skin
The Forget Me Knot gold ring created by Icelandic fashion designer Sruli Recht is not your usual piece of luxury jewelry. The artist had a strip of his own skin surgically removed and mounted on a 24-karat-gold band. We’ve featured some pretty bizarre jewelry on Oddity Central in the past, like the human-bone accessories of Columbine […]
Maquech Beetles – Mexico’s Controversial Living Breathing Jewelry
The Maquech Beetle can make any nature lover or animal rights activist scream in horror. Entomophobics (creepy-crawly-haters) would probably run as far away as possible from this kind of jewelry, and for good reason, as every Maquech is actually a live bejeweled insect. As hard as it may be to even conceive wearing bugs as […]
Gold and Jewelry Make World’s Cheapest Car One of the Most Expensive
A Tata Nano, which usually sells for $3,000 has been converted into one of the most expensive cars in the world, after it’s been plastered with $4.6 million worth of gold and jewelry. The Nano was a welcome innovation designed to bring affordable transportation to Indian masses, and though it may not have all the […]
Designer Makes Jewelry from Real Human Bones
Columbine Phoenix is a talented jeweler with a taste for the macabre. She makes unique jewelry from human bones collected from medical schools and museums. We’ve covered some pretty bizarre jewelry collections in the past, some were made from insects, others from nail clippings, and even human hair, but Columbine’s “Churchyard” line is the weirdest one […]
Jeweler Immortalizes Pet Snouts and Paws into Fashion Accessories
Jewel artist Jackie Kaufman has sniffed out a way to help pet owners keep they’re beloved companions close even after they’ve left this world. She creates beautiful sterling silver jewelry based on molds of animal snouts and paws. Jackie creates all kinds of beautiful accessories, all of which you can see at her Etsy shop, […]
Art Student Creates Hair Raising Necklaces from Human Hair
Kerry Howley, a creative art student, from Cambridge, England, is creating quite a buzz in the art world, with her collection of delicate necklaces made from human hair. The idea of creating jewelry from human hair was inspired by people’s aversion to cut hair. Hair is usually regarded as a very important part of the […]
Man Makes a Living Scraping the Sidewalk for Gold and Diamonds
Believe it or not, the streets of New York really are paved with gold, but you have to get down and dirty to get your hands on it. For urban prospector Raffi Stephanian this isn’t an issue, just a great way to pay the bills. Using only a Styrofoam cup, a butter knife and tweezers, […]
Pimple Popper Ring Is One Disgusting Piece of Jewelry
I’ve seen some pretty bizarre jewelry since I started writing for OC, from rings made from human teeth and hair, to insect accessories, but this Pimple Popper ring is the most disgusting one yet. For reasons I cannot understand, some people just love to pop pimples, and Etsy user Winona Johnson is one of these […]
Cancer Survivor Makes Drug Jewelry to Pay off Medical Debt
Susan Braig, a 61-year-old cancer survivor from Altadena, California, began making jewelry from medication as a form of therapy, but now sells her creations to pay her medical bills. Susan was diagnosed with breast cancer and started chemotherapy in 2004. She remembers she bought her first round of medicine our of her own pocket; it […]
Jewelry Collector Creates World’s Most Expensive Mona Lisa Painting
A Chinese jewelry collector, who probably had more money that he could spend, has created a replica of Leonardo da Vinci’s “Mona Lisa” with 100,000 carats of jewelry. Many artists have tried to replicate da Vinci’s masterpiece out all kinds of unusual materials, from coffee cups, to pieces of toast and even motherboard components, but […]
Artist Turns Insects into Fashionable Pieces of Jewelry
The “Living Jewels” created by Etsy artist aquakej are made from real colorful insects collected from all around the world. Insect art is definitely not for everyone, but if the mere thought of bugs doesn’t make your skin crawl, you might actually consider wearing one of these unusual accessories. The Insects come from various insect […]
Diamond Encrusted Baby Skull Sparks Controversy
Damien Hirst‘s latest artwork, a baby’s skull cast in platinum and encrusted with 8,000 diamonds, has caused quite an outrage among parenting groups who think it’s offensive and deeply disturbing. Hirst has made quite a name for himself, as a controversial artist who has previously dissected sheep and pickled a shark and showed them off […]