Kat and Bear

Welcome to Kat and Bear Jewelry. I've been designing jewelry since 2003. Inspired by the beautiful store windows I pass on the streets of New York City, I taught myself how to craft wearable art and convinced a few kind shop owners to sell my work. I specialize in making jewelry that is strong and delicate. I love very tiny beads, thin chains and unique details. Kat and Bear designs can be purchased at Shine32 at 32 East 32nd Street New York, and on Etsy at http://www.katandbear.etsy.com var _gaq = _gaq || []; _gaq.push(['_setAccount', 'UA-22649844-2']); _gaq.push(['_trackPageview']); (function() { var ga = document.createElement('script'); ga.type = 'text/javascript'; ga.async = true; ga.src = ('https:' == document.location.protocol ? 'https://ssl' : 'http://www') + '.google-analytics.com/ga.js'; var s = document.getElementsByTagName('script')[0]; s.parentNode.insertBefore(ga, s); })();

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May 1974: Guffaws all around as President Richard Nixon was handed a plastic alligator, among other items, by some of the midshipmen receiving his congratulations at the Naval Academy’s graduation proceedings. President Nixon’s speech was more sober: He declared that his policy of “détente precluded interference by the United States in the domestic affairs of other nations.” “We cannot gear our foreign policy to the transformation of other societies,” he said. “In the nuclear age, our first responsibility must be the prevention of a war that could destroy all societies.” Photo: Mike Lien/The New York Times

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Dec. 13, 1948: The buck — and the fowl — stops here: Turkeys destined for President Truman’s Christmas dinner in Independence, Mo., were presented to him by the National Turkey Federation and the Poultry and Egg National Board. Though the presentation of Thanksgiving turkeys to sitting presidents began with Truman, the first President Bush made the “turkey pardon” an official presidential act. “As a result of being bred to be much larger than a normal turkey,” The New York Times wrote in 2013, “pardoned birds are better suited for being eaten than they are for surviving: Only one of the birds pardoned by President Obama has lived to see the next Thanksgiving.” Photo: Bruce Hoertel/The New York Times

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1964: The launch area at Cape Kennedy, where Telstar communications satellites and Tiros weather satellites were launched into space, and where, in this frame, a Saturn rocket blasted off in the distance. A second, newer launch area was to replace this array. “It is difficult for a visitor to Cape Kennedy to grasp the immensity and technical sophistication of the work going into Apollo,” The Times magazine reported. “He is told of plans to assemble rockets in the world’s largest building, now going up in an improbable setting of sand, water and scrub growth; of preparations to move the rockets, erect, two-thirds as tall as the Washington Monument, along a causeway three and a half miles long to the pads; of the vision, beyond Apollo itself, of this place as ‘Spaceport, U.S.A.,’ a permanent facility for traffic in ships of space — a role for Cape Kennedy roughly comparable to that of Kennedy International Airport in another kind of travel.” Photo: George Tames/The New York Times

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October 1955: A series of photos in The Times magazine — Page 265 in this issue — showed how the “Corporal,” a ballistic missile that could carry a nuclear warhead, was loaded up and fired. It was a lengthy and complicated process. Later that year, ominous headlines warned of Soviet advances in making intercontinental ballistic missiles capable of carrying bombs 600 to 800 miles, with reports that the United States was ramping up its own lagging program. “We’re not so much worried about today, as we are about the period 1959 to 1961,” said one “informed observer.” Photo: George Tames/The New York Times

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Sept. 30, 1940: President Franklin Roosevelt got a tour of “defense operations clustered in Maryland,” including the Aberdeen Proving Ground (currently the oldest active proving ground — where military weapons and tactics are tested — established in 1917). “The President seemed to be particularly impressed by his visit to Aberdeen, where he drove past all types of mobile artillery, ranging from 8-inch railway guns down to the small anti-tank cannon, and saw a demonstration of the fire-power of the new Garand automatic rifle and of a new type howitzer,” The Times wrote. Photo: The New York Times

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May 1974: Guffaws all around as President Richard Nixon was handed a plastic alligator, among other items, by some of the midshipmen receiving his congratulations at the Naval Academy’s graduation proceedings. President Nixon’s speech was more sober: He declared that his policy of “détente precluded interference by the United States in the domestic affairs of other nations.” “We cannot gear our foreign policy to the transformation of other societies,” he said. “In the nuclear age, our first responsibility must be the prevention of a war that could destroy all societies.” Photo: Mike Lien/The New York Times

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Oct. 8, 1952: “Two thousand patients made a figurative and wholly delightful hour’s escape from their beds at Bellevue Hospital yesterday,” wrote The Times. The rodeo, an annual event, began with the players riding their horses from Madison Square Garden to the field behind the hospital. “Robert Payne, 10, who has been at the hospital two years with muscular dystrophy, was seeing his second rodeo,” according to the article, which noted that this was the 28th such rodeo. Photo: Eddie Hausner/The New York Times

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July 12, 1950: The zookeeper Robert Montana cited diet as a key to the longevity of Peter the Great — or, as The Times called him on his 47th birthday at the Bronx Zoo, “Peter the Wondrous Ancient.” A special cocktail of oats, yeast, water, linseed oil meal and other ingredients helped Pete avoid “a long overdue appointment with his ancestors.” He was the oldest hippo in captivity in the world at the time, and his “life has been exemplary. He never has had a girl friend. He was born in Central Park, and the only other hippo with whom has had even a nodding acquaintance was his mother.” Photo: Arthur Brower/The New York Times

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Long Silver Crystal Lariat with Weighted Snow Ball Endings

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Ombre Necklace Long Orange Brown and Yellow Toned Multi Strand Glass Bead Necklace with Gold Toned Brass Findings

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Big Orange Necklace with Resin and Brass Beads and Silver Clasp

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Long Multi Strand Necklace with Yellow and Brown Tones Glass Metal Crystal and Wood Beads

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Statement Necklace with Lucite Plastic Acrylic and Glass Beads

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Clear Lucite Choker Necklace

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Flowing Long Silver Chain Choker Necklace

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Blue Mystic Quartz Earrings

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Big Lucite Statement Necklace