Online - September 29, 2005

Small Is the New Big

Sweet Little Things

Discretion is your middle name.

While others highlight, you go for a few depth-defining lowlights. Your basic black briefcase is lined with neon pink houndstooth. And information regarding your lacy leopard skivvies is provided on a need-to-know basis only.

So it’s likely you’ll appreciate Sweet Little Things, a collection of enamel earrings, pins, and bobbie pins that are incredibly tiny — a centimeter high and a centimeter wide. From afar they appear simply to be interesting shapes, but up close you see that each is a tiny masterpiece. Lots of flowers (some with mini crescent moons in the middle), hearts speckled with itty-bitty stars, as well as multicolored fruits, animals, insects, and butterflies.

And since each piece or pair costs between $4 and $8, you don’t have to be too hard on yourself at checkout time.

Proof that discretion is the better part of value.

Available online at sweetlittlethings.com.