Black Friday, Small Business Saturday, Cyber Monday

The Holidays are upon us! And while tomorrow we'll be enjoying the relative quiet with our families, Friday we'll be back at it getting into what surely will be a busy few days..

Memorial Day - Closed in Cambridge

Happy Memorial Day everyone! We will be open today in Northampton but closed in Cambridge for the holiday. Enjoy the beautiful day!

GRATITUDE

From all of us at Rebekah Brooks Jewelry we're wishing you & your families a happy & festive Thanksgiving Day! We're grateful for each other & you, and for all of the things we're fortunate enough to count as blessings. Thought we'd share an excerpt from an op-ed from Arthur Brooks in the NY Times that focuses on a lense of gratitutde & it's importance - good to be reminded of on this day of thanks. Excerpt below with link to the full essay here..

'Finally, be grateful for useless things. It is relatively easy to be thankful for the most important and obvious parts of life — a happy marriage, healthy kids or living in America. But truly happy people find ways to give thanks for the little, insignificant trifles. Ponder the impractical joy in Gerard Manley Hopkins’s poem “Pied Beauty”:

Glory be to God for dappled things —

For skies of couple-colour as a brinded cow;

For rose-moles all in stipple upon trout that swim;

Fresh-firecoal chestnut-falls; finches’ wings;

Landscape plotted and pieced — fold, fallow, and plough;

And all trades, their gear and tackle and trim.

Be honest: When was the last time you were grateful for the spots on a trout? More seriously, think of the small, useless things you experience — the smell of fall in the air, the fragment of a song that reminds you of when you were a kid. Give thanks.

This Thanksgiving, don’t express gratitude only when you feel it. Give thanks especially when you don’t feel it. Rebel against the emotional “authenticity” that holds you back from your bliss. As for me, I am taking my own advice and updating my gratitude list. It includes my family, faith, friends and work. But also the dappled complexion of my bread-packed bird. And it includes you, for reading this column.'

Snow Day / Web Sale

Another day, another blizzard here in the East. Both stores will be closed today due to weather but will re-open tomorrow for business as usual. If you're sitting around watching this beautiful snow globe of a day & want to do some shopping from the comfort of home - we're offering a one day flash sale - 15% off the entire webstore. Just punch in snowday as a promo code when you're checking out, good for today only. Happy sledding!

Pop Up Shop Boston

We are pleased to be partnering with American Express & The Boston Marriott Long Wharf as part of their "Shop Small' initiative which brings local, small businesses directly to their guests. We were one of 8 hand selected businesses from the greater Boston area to participate. Proud to be a part of it & worth checking alone to discover all the other cool stores involved. A really nice plug here as well from Boston Mamma's blog relating to this. Now thru Nov. 30th!

 

Vacation

The blog has gone quiet of late due to the oppressive heat melting our ambitions. That, and we also had company vacation the past couple weeks! So nice to un-plug & disconnect for a minute. Built an improvised brick oven in the woods of NH, swam alot & even hung out with baby goats. Now that we're back we are re-invigorated & over the next couple weeks will be moving into a bigger & better production studio. All very inspiring, so look for new posts coming shortly..

20% off Online Orders!

We hope everyone enjoyed a great Holiday with family & friends. After spending Wednesday & Thursday cooking, eating & drinking too much - we had a great weekend in both of our stores. To thank our customers we're extending our sale & offering 20% off any web orders both today & tomorrow. Enter MONDAYMONDAY in the discount code box & you will see the adjusted amount when you check out. Thanks & Happy Holidays!

Earring Give Away!

Join us for our sale this weekend, December 9th-11th and in addition to 15% all jewelry and 10% off antiques, receive a free pair of earrings with any purchase over $100! See you there!

Holiday Sale!

Join us this weekend, December 9th-11th, to receive 15% off any of our styles in store, and 10% off all antiques and home goods!

Shop Locally

This holiday season, consider supporting your local businesses. Here at Rebekah Brooks, we handcraft all of our jewelry locally. We also carry antique jewelry, home furnishings and accessories, which is a great way to shop "green." Happy Local Shopping!

Upcoming Sales and Events!

Thanks to everyone who made this Bag Day so great! If you didn't make it, don't fret! We have two exciting upcoming events- Black Friday, November 25th we will have a jewelry drawing/giveaway and December 9-10th is our Annual Holiday Sale and party! We hope to see you there!

Eco-Friendly Holiday Gifts

If you're looking for locally sourced, eco-friendly gifts this holiday season, come on in to Rebekah Brooks!

Season of Giving

Whether it be downtown carolers, a hot chocolate shared with friends, or glittering lights atop Main Street, Northampton comes alive with a special electricity during the Holidays. It has been truly lovely to see so many customers actively choosing local and handmade gifts. Family and friends picking jewelry with heartwarming care and diligence, knowing this a gift to last forever.

These are some of the items making it on my wish list this year...

The Victorian Angel necklace shown here with a sapphire perfectly blends a modern and vintage aesthetic.

A Circle-Cross bracelet is one of the best illustrations of quality craftsmanship that goes into our jewelry, each circle is handmade then linked creating this delicate pattern!

Sparkling Ruby's look amazing in the Lily Cap style earring, I can't help but smile looking at these delicate beauties!