This delicious little vicious has been advertised on Ectomo for quite a while, and I’ve only now gotten around to perusing the rest of the squid, octopi, cuttlefish and jellyfish jewelry at Noadi’s shop. It’s quite adept, very affordable, and extremely cute.

So on the off chance that ad-blindness has obscured these wee guys from your clicking fingers, do give them a look. Their ads have supported Ectomo for ages now, so I figured they deserved at least a mention.

Behold, the fearsome steamsquid, driven only by clockwork and the urge to strangle, sucker, and beak!

Noadi’s Shop [Etsy]

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For those with plenty of disposable income who wish to indulge their Gothiest desires, I suppose you could do worse than this piece by Delfina Delettrez Fendi. You’ll be the envy of just everyone as you sway to the strains of Sisters of Mercy, twenty-four thousand dollars of jewel encrusted carpals and silver metacarpals shining under the dim, dim lights.

Delfina Delettrez [Artist's Site] : bioephemera : Haute Macabre

For the cephalophile looking to fill the gaping hole in their collection of extremely gaudy jewelry Chuck Clemency presents this octopodal ring, from his Gem Treasures collection, for your consideration. Crafted from 14K gold it is bristling with 67 precious stones, 62 of which are diamonds. A must have for grandmothers or aspiring hip-hop artists hoping to encase themselves in pimpin’ ice.

14K Gold Multi-Gemstone & Diamond Octopus Ring [ShopNBC] : Thanks, Stacey!

Chocolate 2008

Melanie Bilenker makes jewelry from precious metals, resin, wood, and her own hair, arranging the strands into tiny snapshots of everyday life.

The Victorians kept lockets of hair and miniature portraits painted with ground hair and pigment to secure the memory of a lost love. In much the same way, I secure my memories through photographic images rendered in lines of my own hair, the physical remnants. I do not reproduce events, but quiet minutes, the mundane, the domestic, the ordinary moments.

I like the way she illustrates the figures in her pieces; they have a natural looseness and fluidity that works well with the intimate nature of what they depict.

melanie bilenker jewelry [Artist's Site] : Drawn!

The house in which I spent my formative years was a creaky, Victorian affair packed to the brim with a strange collection of dusty antiquities. All my attempts at affecting a rebellious minimalism resulted in a sense of mourning for my abandoned nest of detritus, and eventually I came to accept my magpie tendencies.

One such fellow magpie is Mr. A.R.M., the founder of The Secret Society of Odd Acquisition, a group who devote themselves to amassing a strange collection of wonders and learning their secrets. Mr. A.R.M.’s antiquated archive of macabre delights is framed in the age polished wood of Trundle Manor — a nefarious, and thus perfect, abode. Not content to simply collect, the members of the S.S.O.A. produce conglomerations of their strange googaws in the form of custom crafted jewelry, photos of which are viewable after the jump along with images of Trundle Manor itself.

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There is no argument among Ecthomites that the classic weaponized jewlery of yore is gorgeous. Yet owing to its antiquated nature, bits and bobs of the destructive ilk can be both difficult to acquire and fragile (once the former issue is overcome).

Jewelers Digby and Iona seek to skirt this problematic issue with their Fall line featuring the above piece. While inoperable as a weapon of elegant destruction the ring is none the less a fearsome addition to any finger.

If digit-weaponization isn’t your thing Digby and Iona also have a moustache pendant available (among other quaintly curious adornments) for all your moustache emergencies.

Digby and Iona [Catbird : CoolHunting]