We (like everyone else on the planet with an email address, we’re guessing) get 90 million email messages every day, and most of them, we ignore, because it makes us tired to delete them. (Chinese firm offering iPad development services … zzzzgrrszzz.) One of the very very few we paid attention to was one from Sa Sa Jewelry, promoting the lovely pieces. They graciously offered us (all of us!) a 20% discount. And here we are! Internet success.

We love these Heartstring bracelets, above. Honestly, we are going to wear them immediately. This is exactly the sort of jewelry we want to wear right now. $12 – 20% = $9.60

Lil Bunny wrote us about this one: “Awesome!” She might not have used the exclamation point, but she meant to. Sa Sa Helm pendant, $40 – 20% = $32

And finally, the twisted heart pendant. Equal love. $30 – 20% discount = $24

Before we forget: Discount code BUNNYSHOP. Good until July 28 at the Sa Sa shop. Thank you so much, Sa Sa! We love discounts. Find their website here and their Facebook page here.

Soo Ihn Kim “is designed by photographer Kelly Bruggema and stylist Gisella Lemos,” according to Shopbop, which is the only place we’ve seen their pieces. Which we love! The gunmetals and grays, and the Art Deco stylings on the details. (“Rhinestone details,” Shopbop says.) We love this. We love dramatic necklaces that we can wear with casual tops, and this, we think, is among them. Zarya necklace, $200

And how pretty are these? Faina earrings (made of Swarovski crystals), $140

And this! The prettiness! It overwhelms. In a good way. Soo Ihn Kim Lara necklace, $195

In honor of her current, massive [35% off] sale [with discount code SUMMER], we decided to begin our “One Question For…” series with jewelry designer Maya Brenner. One question because—life is short! We’re thinking that one question is exactly what the doctor ordered. So we asked Maya this. It helps if you know that Maya’s most famous pieces are her awesome charms of all 50 states.

Our question: We love your state charms! But what is your favorite state?

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If there is one thing we swoon over, it is the entirety of Anthropologie’s necklace division. We want all of them. There are few things we want all of. Ice cream, maybe. Eh, not really. And some of the Anthro necklaces are lame. But loads of them are amazing, and some of them are not that expensive—like Forever 21-shirt level of expensiveness. And there are thirteen pages of them! These are a few of our favorites.

It’s like a bouquet. For the neckline! Crop of Purple necklace, $198

The Legend Has It necklace, $48. Okay, so we could do without the twee names, but they’re perfect otherwise.

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In today's Reader Mail:

Hi Bunnyshop,

My brother is coming to visit me in Brooklyn next week and wants to go engagement ring shopping for his lovely girlfriend of five year. He is looking to spend $500 – $1500 (max $2000) for a vintage ring (diamond or not). Do you have any store recommendations? Thanks so much!

L.

Of course we love the Brooklyn question. And: We do! We hope. First, we started with our favorite ring designer on the planet, Melissa Joy Manning. This is just one of the ones we like, and well within budget. MJM white diamond oval ring, $690

According to her website, she's sold at the Clay Pot in Park Slope (which we will forgive for passing us over for a copywriting job.) They definitely do stock this one:

which was just in Lucky. MJM opal ring, $350

Supposedly she's also stocked at Jumelle in Williamsburg (148 Bedford) but their website isn't giving up much info.

Bird has shops in Park Slope, Cobble Hill, and Williamsburg, and they have great jewelry lines. Speaking of, they actually did hire us to do their copywriting, a million years ago, and they traded us Diane von Furstenberg dresses, which was a more than perfect arrangement. Sarah McGuire sapphire ring, $595

Cog and Pearl (190 Fifth Ave) might be too casual but it's our neighborhood go-to for indie jewelry designers.

Hmm. We just re-read the question and see now that it specifies vintage. Mm. Hopefully this is not a complete fail. if it is, indeed, vintage-only, we would start with that weird (but awesome) vintage store in Park Slope that's just south of Flatbush on Sixth Avenue, on the west side of the street. (Sorry, those directions kind of suck—but it's there.) We also hear very good things about Dolly G's in Williamsburg. And the Hooti Couture people (conveniently, right around the corner from the mysterious Sixth Avenue shop above, at 321 Flatbush) could very likely offer valuable advice here. 

Does anyone else have suggestions? Or! More questions! We love them! Email them to: thumper-at-bunnyshop-dot-org.

These are just a few of the highlights from yesterday’s Me&Ro sale at Gilt. We’re torn: While we truly (truly) embrace anything that suggests the economy is not actually dead yet, and instead just a bit sniffly, this still freaks us out. We only hope (for the sake of our understanding of the world) that there was only one of each of these available, and Paris Hilton bought all of them.

Nominally for Valentine’s Day. We are so anti-that holiday. And not because we are a bitter harridan. When we were at Sundance a few weeks ago, we saw the world’s most annoying romantic comedy, and when we described it thusly to the guy sitting next to us, he was all, “Wow, [are you] just out a bad relationship?” And we were like, no, you douche, that movie just sucked. Like the only people who don’t like bad romantic comedies are harridans. Argh! February. Give us March. Or better: April. Even better: May!

Moving on from our seasonal affective disorder: Maya Brenner’s having a 25% off Valentine’s Day sale. It may be the best thing to emerge about the holiday, which we maintain is designed to make everyone—single and not—miserable and question-y about the status of their relationships. Gah! We hate it.

We keep getting sidetracked! Maya Brenner. We would buy this locket, because lockets are nice: Maya Brenner heart locket necklace, $185, with discount code MAYA it’s $138.75

Or this, a perennial favorite here at BS:

Maya Brenner NJ necklace, was $230 (in 14k gold), with discount code MAYA it’s $172.50

We’re just recently been converted to the idea of rings lately. Like cabs. Last night we took a cab home from Pen Station—this is after we were so jet-lagged we actually imagined we saw a 2 train coming, at which point we decided hallucinating was our official get-a-cab cut-off—anyway, touch screens! Extremely fabulous! We had no idea it was like 2078 in the back of cabs these days.

Anyway: equally fabulous, this ring. We love it. Girly rings, eh. Clever rings, yes. We believe this is the latter. Forget Me Knot ring, $50—minus 25% with discount code BUNNYSHOP.08, so $37.50!

In today’s reader mail:

Hey there Bunny,

So this question is about personal adornment. See, I am newly single and so have cast off the wedding and engagement rings that I have worn for the last few years. But, of course, now my fingers feel naked and I don’t feel very pretty overall, so I’m looking for a little present to myself. And yet, I don’t want to fall into that sad clichéd trap of either a) the “right-hand ring” forced down our throats by the DeBeers company or b) jewelry with messages about “the journey” or “strength” etched into it.

Do you have any suggestions for a beautiful ring that is worth a not-too-big investment, makes me appear like a stylish, confident girl and will also fit my freakishly small hands (the biggest ring size I can wear is a 5)?

E.

Oh dear! This sounds like a very stressful episode!

First, we will say: The best medicine we have ever provided to ourselves or anyone is travel. It is our favorite cliche, that travel is transformative, and in our opinion, one of the most accurate. It heals all wounds, if you will indulge us in another one.

That said: We also despise the marketing campaign known as the right-hand ring, and believe in a world without power-messages inscribed upon our jewelry. We are hoping that LB will chime in here (as well as anyone else with a suggestion, of course) but we love Melissa Joy Manning’s rings. We’re not sure if this qualifies as "not-too-big," but this ring definitely does come in a size 5 (or 4, or 4.5) and we just love it—the entire collection, but this one in particular. It completely sidesteps that ridiculous right-hand-ring stuff—it’s not a pathetic replacement for anything. It’s just gorgeous. Melissa Joy Manning druzy agate ring, $485

We also really like this one: You’re a star! It’s a better statement, in our opinion, than a whole shitload of other rings. We’re pretty sure it’s harder to be a star than it is to get some guy to hand over a ring. Adina Reyter star ring, $238