{"title":"Bold Standard","description":"\u003cp\u003eArtist Kathleen Grebe founded Bold Standard after a career as design director for multiple well known brands, seeking artistic freedom without compromise. Armed with a laser cutter, she began creating contemporary art jewelry using bold color, contrast, and sometimes typography and the written word. She values sustainability and uses recycled materials whenever possible, including in shipping and packaging. Her work can be found in museum stores across the country. She is also our neighbor - both Kathleen and Harold \u0026amp; Hazel hail from Raleigh, North Carolina. We love Kathleen's work; she is a true artist who has chosen a very accessible medium so that anyone can wear art that makes a statement without taking out a second mortgage!\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"banned-books-hoop-earrings","title":"Banned Books Hoop Earrings ♻️","description":"\u003cp\u003eThere is a particular kind of defiance that lives on a library shelf. It's quiet — no marches, no megaphones — just a book that someone, somewhere, decided was too dangerous to exist. And yet it persists. \"To Kill a Mockingbird.\" \"The Color Purple.\" \"Beloved.\" Every attempt to silence a story only proves how much power it holds.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe history of banned books is, in many ways, the history of ideas that mattered most. From the Catholic Church's Index Librorum Prohibitorum in 1559 to modern-day school board challenges that spike higher every year, the impulse to suppress has always been a mirror — reflecting not what's dangerous in a text, but what's uncomfortable in a culture. The American Library Association has tracked these challenges for decades, and the pattern is consistent: the books that get banned are almost always the ones that give voice to someone who's been told to be quiet.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThese earrings wear that history.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBold Standard laser-cuts each pair from 100% recycled acrylic — vibrant, lightweight, and made from material that already had another life — then finishes them with hypoallergenic stainless steel hoops. At 2½ inches including the hoop and just 2 grams per pair, they're dramatically present without any drag or fatigue. The kind of piece you put on in the morning and forget you're wearing until someone asks you about it — and then you get to have the conversation.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHandcrafted by Bold Standard in North Carolina.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Bold Standard","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44152849924143,"sku":"022-E-10007","price":63.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0604\/1065\/8863\/files\/B9E1D500-C2E8-4E74-A5AC-3BDFA0304401.jpg?v=1754618261"},{"product_id":"women-of-history-earrings-♻️","title":"Women of History Earrings ♻️","description":"\u003cp\u003eConsider how many brilliant women were painted out of the picture. Not metaphorically — literally. Their contributions reattributed, their names omitted from papers they wrote, their faces absent from the murals and monuments that commemorated the very movements they built. History, for centuries, was a portrait gallery with half the subjects missing.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBold Standard, a woman-owned studio in North Carolina, decided to put some of them back. These earrings feature the silhouettes of women who shaped history — scientists, activists, artists, thinkers — rendered in vivid recycled acrylic with the kind of graphic clarity that recalls propaganda posters and protest art. There is something deliberately unapologetic about wearing a woman's profile as adornment. It is decorative and declarative at the same time.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEach pair is cut from 100% recycled acrylic, giving post-consumer material a second life as something worth keeping. The silver-plated ear wires are hypoallergenic, and at 2¾ inches from the top of the wire to the base of the silhouette, they have a confident, eye-catching swing. At just 3 grams, though, they carry that presence without any drag — light enough to forget you're wearing them, bold enough that no one else will.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEvery detail here is intentional: the recycled material, the woman-owned provenance, the choice to make history literally visible. It is jewelry that knows what it stands for.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHandcrafted by Bold Standard.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Bold Standard","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44152849989679,"sku":"022-E-10010","price":52.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0604\/1065\/8863\/files\/IMG-4734.jpg?v=1755398528"},{"product_id":"marie-curie-radium-earrings","title":"Marie Curie Radium Earrings","description":"\u003cp\u003eShe carried test tubes of radium in her pockets. She kept glowing samples in her desk drawer. Marie Curie was so intimate with her discovery that her personal notebooks, more than a century later, are still too radioactive to handle without protective clothing. That kind of devotion — reckless, obsessive, world-altering — doesn't fit neatly into a textbook. It belongs somewhere closer to the body.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCurie remains the only person in history to win Nobel Prizes in two different sciences. She isolated radium in a leaking shed in Paris, working with her bare hands in conditions that would horrify a modern chemist, and she did it at a time when the scientific establishment barely acknowledged women could think. The element she discovered glowed pale blue in the dark. She called it beautiful. It killed her, and she never stopped loving it. There is something in that — in the refusal to separate beauty from danger, knowledge from sacrifice — that feels essential to who she was.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThese earrings render the radium molecule in vivid, unapologetic color.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCut from recycled acrylic with clean precision, each pair hangs 1¼ inches from stainless steel ear wires in silver — hypoallergenic and nickel-free, so they're as considered in craft as they are in concept. At 5 grams per earring, they carry just enough weight to feel intentional without dragging. The acrylic holds bold, saturated color that reads like a vintage science poster, the kind you'd find pinned to the wall of a midcentury university lab.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHandcrafted in North Carolina by Bold Standard.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Bold Standard","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44894772920367,"sku":"022-E-10012","price":60.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0604\/1065\/8863\/files\/IMG-5539.jpg?v=1773008248"},{"product_id":"first-amendment-we-the-people-free-speech-earrings-♻️","title":"First Amendment 'We the People' Free Speech Earrings ♻️","description":"\u003cp\u003eBefore it was an amendment, it was an argument. A radical, contested, deeply personal argument about whether ordinary people had the right to say what they believed — out loud, in public, without permission from the powerful. In 1791, when those words were ratified into law, they didn't settle the debate. They formalized the fight. Every generation since has had to decide what free speech actually means, who it protects, and what it costs to defend.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBold Standard, a woman-owned studio in North Carolina, made these earrings from 100% recycled acrylic — material that already had one life and was given another. There's something fitting about that: the First Amendment itself is a living thing, reinterpreted and re-defended in every era, its meaning constantly remade. The text is rendered cleanly and legibly, the kind of design that doesn't shout but doesn't whisper either. It states. The way the amendment itself does.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eQuiet conviction, worn close to the face.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEach earring is cut from lightweight recycled acrylic and hangs from a stainless steel ear wire that is hypoallergenic and nickel-free. At 2¼ inches including the ear wire and just 2 grams per earring, they move with you — light enough to wear all day, visible enough to start a conversation you might actually want to have.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHandcrafted by Bold Standard.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Bold Standard","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44894772953135,"sku":"022-E-10011","price":50.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0604\/1065\/8863\/files\/IMG-5551.jpg?v=1773011098"}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0604\/1065\/8863\/collections\/B9E1D500-C2E8-4E74-A5AC-3BDFA0304401.jpg?v=1745278942","url":"https:\/\/haroldandhazel.live\/collections\/bold-standard.oembed","provider":"Harold \u0026 Hazel","version":"1.0","type":"link"}