I am a big sap when it comes to Victorian inspired anything. While I try to read the occasional contemporary novel, nothing beats sticking my nose in a good old Victorian novel, like something from the Brontes. Maybe that's why I like antique-style jewelry so much.

Sybil Shimazu, Jools' head designer, was thinking similar thoughts when she designed their Victorian Bohemian Collection.

Here's a little more from a company press release: The new
Victorian Bohemian Collection from Jools [...] was inspired by a fictional Victorian woman drawn into Bohemian life at the turn of the 20th century.

A fun and eclectic mix of handcrafted silver, 14-karat gold-fill, semi-precious and precious gemstones, Jools designs are all made by hand in Los Angeles . The pieces are au courant and on point with current trends, with one key difference: the price.

"When I designed these pieces, I kept imagining this Victorian woman discovering Paris in the late 1900s, drinking absinthe with poets and letting her hair down," says Sybil Shimazu, Jools' head designer. "The Jools Victorian Bohemian collection showcases designs that I visualized her wearing-delicate, lacy filigrees in dramatic black, accented with onyx and smoky quartz."