Colored Gold has Officially Jumped the Shark

After watching Lisa present some Barney-the-Dinosaur, purple-colored gold on QVC last night, I'm officially declaring that colored gold has Jumped the Shark.

The original and natural yellow color is perfect. White and rose are simply beautiful and they are classics. Even a little chocolate, black, and green can be enjoyable in small doses or as accents. But purple? And it's not even a nice, soft understated tanzanite purple.

The classic Byzantine bracelet presented last night in purple was just the last straw for me. This is getting ridiculous. As expensive as gold is right now, why would anyone pay for a 14k gold bracelet coated in Crayola Crayon Purple?

I don't get it.

For the Forbidden Love of Fake Diamonds

Oh, how I loves me some fake diamonds! QVC is kicking off Diamonique Week with a big ol' blingy bang. Wow! If this bracelet wasn't $300--yes, you read that right,Three.Hundred.Dollars.--I would be all over it.

*Sigh* I think I'll just be crying on me keyboard all day.

Creede Rocks the Bracelets!

It's Creede Silver Strike Day on the Q!!! I love jewelry and I love silver, so I certainly have no problem with an entire day dedicated to silver jewelry!

After looking through all the Creede pieces, I was most struck with the bracelets (and I'm not just talking about the TSV either). Normally I'm much more of a ring and earring kind of a girl, but the bracelets were clearly the stars of the day.

The TSV is an Arte d'Argento Sterling Multi-gemstone Charm Bracelet. I love just about anything Arte d'Argento, but I'm sure we'll soon be hearing stories of beads falling off the bracelet (or arriving already broken). I always worry when a manufacturer has to make enough of something for it to be a TSV. If you have to make 10-20,000 bracelets (I have no idea how many they have), I'm guessing that the quality is naturally going to slip a little. Although I have to admit, it does look like it would be fun to wear and jingle.

There's also some great Artisan Crafted items, like this Sterling & Brass Bead Scroll Design Cuff:

And this Artisan Crafted Sterling Bold Woven Bracelet:

There's even some designer jewelry like this RLM Studio Sterling "Molten Wrist" Couture Cuff (be still my beating heart ...)

And some designer knock-off stuff like this Sterling Twisted Cuff Bracelet w/Decorative End Caps:

Today's Blue Plate Specials ... Magic Eight Ball Madness!

The ShopNBC OTV is a Charles Winston Women's Swarovski® Crystal Accent Charm Bracelet Watch. If I liked hearts, this would be kinda cute--a nice trendy piece for the fall. The strap is leather and comes in red, black, and white (well, the black is already sold out).

I love the quote from Charles Winston about this: "Here is the perfect gift for any woman, from the very young, to the very sophisticated.”

Remember chickadees, we aren't old, we're sophisticated ... or very sophisticated ... possibly more sophisticated than dirt. :-)


The QVC TSV is a Modern Soul NewStretch Shawl Collar Jacket & Wide Leg Pants. I like the idea of this--a comfy pant suit that looks more dressed up than it feels. However, the pants have an elastic waist (no thank you) and the pants also only come in one length. Being vertically challenged, I know this would not work for me. But the worst part is that you have to hand wash and dry flat. Queen Bea doesn't hand wash or dry flat!!!

The Q is going 8/8/08 nuts today! There is easy pay on all kitchen clearance here. And there's Crazy Eights Offers all day here. And easy pay on all home theater systems here (do NOT tell Mr. Queen Bea! Ugh!)




The HSN TS is a Lexmark Photo Printer, Copier, Scanner and Fax with 1GB SD Card. From what I saw on Google, $88.08 (the 8/8/08 madness will never end!!!) seems to be a good price. If you're considering buying this, check out the reviews for this here.


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JTV Clearance on Wonder Woman Cuff!

Wide Textured Sterling Silver Cuff Bracelet
(Item: MCH057B)

This cuff is a rockin' deal, chickadees. If you like big, chunky silver items, you have got to take a look at this. It's 49.4 grams of silver for only $55.99 ... that's a little over a dollar a gram ... that's practically free! OMG, I'm morphing into Lisa R. as I type.

Anyway, I love big, bold cuffs--mainly because I like to think that I'm Wonder Woman. If I only had the Lasso of Truth ... *sigh*

Not only is a really good deal in and of itself, but there are also all sorts of 10% off, 20% off, and free shipping coupon codes that you could use with this.

I think I'm feeling faint.

Just click the Coupon link on the right side of the blog and scroll to the end of the comments for the latest JTV coupon codes. (Thank you MK!!!)

Today's Blue Plate Specials ... Oompa-Loompa Strikes Back!

The QVC TSV is a Sterling Turquoise Nugget Stretch Bracelet with Heart Charm. Considering that I don't much care for turquoise, hearts, or stretch bracelets, this isn't really the piece for me.

If you're a gold girl, make sure you check out the Last Chance Eternagold. With gold getting more and more expensive, it's been a sad state of affairs lately for gold lovers. I'm guessing that since QVC has a policy of not raising the price past the QVC price, they have to retire a big chunk of the Eternagold line and bring in similar items at a higher price. This would be the time to grab them!



The HSN TS is TanTowels Tinted On the Glow. So I looked through the reviews for other TanTowel products and they were b-a-d. Really bad. Even people who used to like them, now say that the new ones are terrible. I don't think that we should encourage the hosts to get any more Oompa-Loompa anyway.

The ShopNBC TS is Invicta Women's Pro Diver Swiss Quartz Stainless Steel Watch. ANOTHER WATCH!!! How many watches does a person need? I refuse on principle to discuss another watch OTV. Hmph.

I will, however, mention that there is a big clearance on watches going on at Jewelry Televisio, which includes free shipping! Check it out here.

Today's Blue Plate Specials ... There's Gold in Them There Hills!

It's gold-is-really-freakin'-expensive-but-we-still-have-to-have Gold Rush Day! The already-gone TSV is Bold Triple Panther Link Bracelet 14K Gold, 10.1g (FYI ... that link will take you to a garden hose!!! That's the way it was on my TSV email, so that's the way I left it!).

I'm guessing they aren't ording huge quantities of anything gold these days, so there might be more sell-outs then usual for gold items. If the braeclet is $468.00 (not including S&H and tax), that comes out to $46.34/gram ... ouch! I'm soooo glad the Q prominantly displayed the gram weight. I wish they did this on everything! I just want to know what I'm paying for. It's not like I can reach through the TV to fell how heavy it is!




HSN has a Fiberbed with Removable Quilted Top as the TS. I don't have much to say about this other then, based on my experience as a mother, the removable top for washing seems to be a really good idea ... the real star of the day is SALE. It's clearance day so be sure to check it out. It'll probably be the last time you see certain collections on air *cough*lukastyle*cough*.

Oh! And make sure you sign up to win the HSN Sweepstakes! That $10,000 custom-made Jean Dousset ring belongs on my greedy little finger!




ShopNBC has the "The Elegance of Gisele" Table Lamp as their OTV. It looks pretty, but by the look on that Gisele lady's face, I think she's totally over holding up that damn lamp!

Today's Blue Plate Specials ... Diamonds and Rubies and Emeralds, Oh My!

It's Gem Day at the Q! You know, if they combined Gem Day with EZ Pay Day, there would be some sort of home shopping cosmic implosion. Anyway, the TSV is a big honkin' Sterling 23.00 ct tw Multi-gemstone Hinged Cuff.

And you know what? It's not half bad ... not Queen Bea's style (I'm not one for the multi-gem rainbow look), but it looks like it's well-made and the stones seem to be decent quality. I'm sooooooo glad that they didn't try to put "diamond accents" in the silver bead work because that would have really cheapened the whole thing.

It's going quick though--the small is already on wait list. Lisa "Madison Avenue" Robinson kicked it off last night and just blew it out of the water (Didn't she look devine in that blue dress? She just doesn't need to lose any more weight ... no sprinkles for Lisa!)

HSN has some Debbie Meyer GreenBoxes as their TS. I need something like this to keep my salad from rotting in one day (especially considering how much those little bags of pre-washed salad costs!), but it's not Lock & Lock! Queen Bea *hearts* Lock & Lock. If GreenBoxes and Lock & Lock had a baby, I'd be all over that.




ShopNBC has another ceramic watch as their OTV. They just did one not long ago--I wrote about it here. I guess the difference if that this one is Invicta and the last one was Croton? I don't know, seems a tad redundant to me.



And don't forget to pick up a pair of these totally awesome Invicta flip flops! WTH???

Tori Spelling's Delivers Baby

According to E! ,Tori Spelling "and hubby Dean McDermott welcomed their second child together, daughter Stella Doreen McDermott, today in Los Angeles, E! News confirms.
The baby was delivered via C-section at 3:13 p.m. at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, weighing in at 6 pounds, 8 ounces and measuring 19 and 3/4 inches long."

And according to Perez Hilton ,Tori used the same doctor that Angelina Jolie used. So not only do you have to be wearing the right shoes in Hollywood, you simply have to have the right gyno. Who knew?

I really wanted to hate Tori's fashion jewelry line at HSN when it first came out--another D-list celeb slapping their name on some lame products, but there are some really nice, trendy pieces.

Like this bracelet (item# 299-233), super cute and has great reviews across the board.

But unless she drops the prices dramatically, or I happen to catch a good clearance sale, I won't be buying anything. Waaaaaay too overpriced for fashion jewelry.

Congrats, Tori, Dean, and new big brother, Liam!