Original designs from Goth to Rockabilly, the Femme Metale look is fresh and a little bit edgy… Leslie Homan, a former model, Hollywood makeup artist and wardrobe stylist, is the creative force behind the sterling silver jewelry that’s flaunted by some of the biggest stars of the rock pop world and Hollywood. I’m totally charmed by her retro-glam vintage swizzle stick bracelets, like this silver Vegas showgirl.

Femme Metale jewelry has “graced the manicured hands” of Christina Aguilera, Kate Moss, Sheryl Crow, Kat Von D, Brittany Murphy, Avril Lavigne, Angelina Jolie, and the Divas of the WWE, just to name a few of the silver afficianadas, and has made a number of television appearances inlcuding a shine on America’s Next Top Model.

Here’s a question for the creative jewelry artists in the crowd: have you ever used model railroad supplies to make a $1400 necklace?

Some of the most astonishingly original pieces I’ve seen in ages (thanks to Di Overton for spotting the dangerously pretty rings) have turned up in Sarah Hood’s landscape jewellery collection — inspired and inspiring!

My personal favourite in Hood’s new line is the aforementioned one-of-a-kind Bush/ Branch Necklace, made of tiny sterling silver branches interpersed with those little fake “bushes” and “underbrush” you’d get to make a model railroad landscape.

It comes with a cherry wood and glass shadow box, so you can show it off on the sideboard or wall when it’s not sparking up your little black dress.

Sterling silver is always my first choice for earrings, and these Berenguela earrings top the list. A classic design is brought alive with tiny cups of silver, filled with hand-applied enamel in rich coordinating colours.

Hand-crafted in Northern Spain, where there’s a long and justifiably deserved reputation for jewelry-making, the pretty pair sells for $35 at Artesania Galpicos. Matching bracelet and necklace are available,too, if you can’t get enough of that gorgeous enamelling.