If you’re having a day where you feel less than swanky, then consider a simple outfit in muted solid colours, drawing attention away from your beautiful belly. Instead try accessorizing with pieces you wouldn’t normally pick like an oversized bangle, several stacked bracelets, or even an elegant bejewelled headband.
The right accessories can add so much to an outfit, and since pregnancy can be a time when your fashion moods sway more than the tide why not ponder the revitalized art form of scrimshaw.
Scrimshaw is a traditional technique of painstakingly etching onto ivory or bone with ink rubbed into the scratches illuminating text or an image. It was essentially a leisure activity for whalers that began on whaling ships and survived until the ban on commercial whaling. While scrimshaw is rarely done on whale bone today, the art is still practiced by a few artists, and jewellry designer Jessica Cushman is one of them. Cushman originally learned scrimshaw from her father, who took up the craft in the 1960's – and is taking the art form to another level: “Creating scrimshawed antique ivory bracelets that lie somewhere between a tattoo and a bumper sticker”.
Cushman’s pre-ban, antique ivory bracelets and resin reproductions are all hand inked and hand finished with quotes and phrases, from movies, literature and in some cases, New York graffiti, taking a traditional craft and adding wry, modern wit.
http://www.jessicacushman.com/