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Neighborhood Walks
Why not take your favorite friend for a meander around the neighborhood and find yourselves a corner to warm yourselves in together.
xo LeighStrolling Jewelry
How to Curate Your Ring Stack
What is Ring Stacking
What is a stacking ring, you ask? Well, we believe nearly any ring can be a stacking ring! Rings which are slender, with straight lines, are very easy to stack, one on top of the other, layered over time. And then there are open rings, signet rings, rings with curves and center stones, to help build a ring stack that is personal to you.
How to Stack Rings
Whether you're inclined towards a bright and shining jumbled mix, or in favor of a more pared-back look, Catbird stacking rings are the building blocks for a put them on, never take them off collection of rings, to ebb and flow as it suits you over time.
Essential Stackable Rings
From the poetic world of Catbird — designed in our Brooklyn studio and available only at Catbird. Sustainably made with over 95% recycled diamonds and recycled 14k gold.
How to Stack Gold & Silver Rings
How to stack gold rings and how to stack silver rings? Mix and match to create your unique combination, whether you prefer a minimalist or bolder statement. Explore the stacked ring look with our silver and gold stacking rings collection.
Tips for Styling Stackable Rings
With personalized bands and a large assortment of beautiful designs and sizes, you can create a unique and meaningful stack that reflects your personal style. All Catbird rings are designed with our trademark attention to detail—the perfect addition to any ring stack.
Different Ring Stack Designs
What is a Lab Grown Diamond?
We often are asked “what is a lab grown diamond?”, in addition to inquiries about our options in true sustainable diamonds.
When it comes to sourcing diamonds for our wedding & engagement and fine jewelry collections, we choose to go above standards set by the jewelry industry. Our long standing suppliers hold certification that assures the mines they work with adhere to internationally recognized standards for ethical, conflict-free diamond mining practices.We are committed to providing every sustainable option available, allowing you to choose the ring and stone that speaks to you. In addition to our ethically mined natural diamonds, our engagement ring line is created with 95% recycled diamonds. Recycled, or reclaimed, diamonds are extracted from fine jewelry with a previous life, and placed back into the diamond supply chain. They carry no new environmental or labor impact, and are GIA certified to meet the same cut, clarity, and color grading standards set for our newly mined diamonds.
Our lab grown diamonds are cultivated in controlled lab environments that mimic the process found in nature. The end result is a diamond that is both visually and molecularly the same as a natural diamond, with the same grading system that considers cut, color, clarity, and carat. We partner with labs certified in sustainable cultivation, using the lowest energy and emission footprint.
Explore Our Lab Grown Diamond Collection
The same brilliance found in every Catbird Diamond.
Our lab grown diamonds are a mining free, sustainable option. Catbird natural diamonds and lab diamonds are optically and molecularly the same, and our lab diamonds provide an excellent value for the highest quality clarity and color. Our newest lab grown milestone and engagement rings start at $1,900 and come with their own IGI or GCAL certification.
If you’d like to make an appointment for a complimentary (and pressure free) meeting with a Catbird ring expert, we offer both in-person and virtual appointments every week. You can book a solo spot, or bring a significant other or loved one with you. Find out more and reserve your spot.Photo Journal: Katie Merchant
How to Curate Your Earring Stack
How to Stack Earrings
The art of the ear stack is a personal pursuit — what best suits one’s style, aesthetic, piercings, and ear shapes. At Catbird, our preference is for the shining and the starry. We specialize in studs of shimmering opals, recycled diamonds to wear fairy style, luminous pearls and gold hoops in all shapes and sizes. From dainty black diamond stud earrings and mini hoops and huggies to sparkling drop earrings, find the perfect pieces to add to your collection.
How to Stack Hoop & Huggie Earrings
The Catbird Hoop Shop is full of gold hoops and gold huggies in a range of sizes, some with diamonds, some with texture. Try playing with scale! A gradient hoop stack is a forever favorite.
Different Stack Earrings Styles
Delicate Underpinnings
At home two weeks ago — heaped with bodega flowers for a photoshoot, mineral water, coffee, pastries on the table to eat as we did our jobs together. The part about sweets that I care for far more than the sweets themselves is the poring over them, the nibbling, the crumbs, the cutting and moving from one small plate to the next, the sharing.
xo LeighSweets Shop
What is Ethical Jewelry?
Since day 1 we have been committed to conscious manufacturing, working with long standing suppliers and partners who offer transparency into the origins of our recycled gold, recycled diamonds, and ethically sourced stones. Today, over 95% of the Catbird line is made using recycled precious materials with no new mining impact. At the heart of what we do is our dedication to preserving our Brooklyn based in-house studio – a centralized manufacturing hub where a majority of the Catbird line continues to be designed and produced.
Ethical jewelry and diamond rings are a conscious choice for those seeking to make a positive impact through a fine jewelry purchase. To our team, what ethical jewelry truly means is treating everyone with respect and dignity — our staff, our customers, our community, the designers we work with, our material suppliers and the earth itself.
Through our code of conduct policy, every step of the supply chain, from our stone suppliers to manufacturing and distribution, adheres to strict standards in social responsibility. At our headquarters & studio, we seek to further minimize our impact by reducing carbon emissions in our packaging and shipping process, and by supporting sustainable alternatives like lab-grown diamonds in an expanding number of our styles.
As Catbird continue to grow, we’re proud to preserve our commitment to the highest quality ethical jewelry and diamonds
1. Conflict-free: The diamonds used in our jewelry, from everyday pieces to engagement rings, are sourced from areas free from involvement in human rights violations.
2. Environmental sustainability: We promote responsible mining practices and support sustainable alternatives like lab-grown and recycled diamonds, and recycled and ethically mined gold, to minimize our impact.
3. Fair labor practices: We prioritize fair wages, above industry standard benefits, safe working conditions, and opportunities for personal and professional growth
What are Conflict Free Diamonds
Conflict-free diamonds are a crucial part of ethical jewelry. We have long relationships with a select few of the most respected suppliers to ensure that every rose cut diamond we use goes above the standards enforced by the Kimberley Process and is guaranteed conflict-free. We work with our suppliers to ensure as much transparency as possible around stone origins, and, vitally important but often overlooked: cutting facilities that are safe and continually audited by a third party.
Are Lab Grown Diamonds Ethically Sourced?
Lab-grown diamonds offer an alternative to traditional mined diamonds. Our lab grown diamonds are created in a low emission environment using advanced technology, making them a more sustainable and ethical choice.
What Are Recycled Diamonds?
A recycled or reclaimed diamond is a diamond that was once mined and used in a jewelry setting, and is ready to be repurposed for another piece of jewelry. Diamonds are the hardest naturally occurring substance which makes them perfect candidates for recycling— they can be used more than once without any trace of wear, holding their original lasting value. 100% of the brilliant cut diamonds we design with are recycled, an industry leading commitment.
Our Recycled Edit!
Our signature Sweet Nothing gold choker necklace is a long standing best seller, and made to last in the finest recycled solid 14k gold. A majority of our signature chains and Forever Bracelet styles are also certified 100% recycled.
An early favorite (no piercing required!), the gold ear cuff earring is also crafted from 100% recycled solid 14k yellow gold, offering a sustainable addition to any earring stack.
Designed in house, our collection of tiny and shiny charms can be added to any of our hoop earrings, chains, charm clickers, and more – for a look truly personal, a subtle nod to you! Our charms and pendants are meticulously crafted with a 100% recycled solid 14k yellow gold chain.
Adorn yourself with a true classic, the tiny diamond stud earrings, featuring 100% recycled diamonds that add a subtle sparkle.
Mark something special with our line of engagement and milestone rings, The Swans. Expertly handcrafted with 100% recycled solid 14k and 18k gold, featuring conflict-free rose cut diamonds and 100% recycled brilliant cut diamonds. Each is made to shapeshift in mood and era.
Photo Journal: Lina Sun Park
Lina is our friend, neighbor, and one of our favorite artists! Everything she makes is moodboard-worthy.
Her dreamy style incorporates a mix of dollhouse miniatures, not-your-average food styling (you may know her from her pastry with bow series), and a nice dusting of magic!
We were excited to commission a photo series from her featuring our new Pastille Collection, a treasure trove of charms, and other favorite Catbird Classics.
Keep scrolling for a peek inside Lina's beautiful mind!
Shop Lina's Wishlist
Leith's World
To celebrate the one year anniversary of our second collection with stylist and editor
Leith Clark, we asked her to share some of her favorite things and current inspiration!
The new issue of Violet starring Greta Lee (of the most beautiful &
heart wrenching film of this year - Past Lives).
Crochet dress by Ceine & silver mary janes with perspex heel from
Emila Wickstead paired with the Daisies Stud.
The Other Side by Jennifer Higgie. The most astonishing, eye-opening, hauntingly beautiful of books.
My favourite of this year aboslutely.A Field Guide to Getting Lost by Rebecca Solnit ("the bible").
Emahoy Tsege Mariam Gebru on vinyl all the time.
Become (12" - the newest and maybe the most pure Victoria vocals of all - from Beach House).
This room at the Four Seasons in Florence (one of my most favourite cities)
Photo Journal: Mother's Day
For Mother's Day this year, we wanted to spotlight one of the women we have worked very closely with over the past year and a half - the very lovely, Tara!
She is Vito's grandniece, business partner, and caretaker. She is the mother to two beautiful boys, Archer & Jasper.
She is a kind, compassionate, fun, and talented woman, and a very dear friend to us.Here are a some of her favorite pieces!
