Itsy Bitsy

I wandered into this store the other day and I was quite pleasantly surprised! I found a little bit of everything. I was shopping for a little girls birthday and also a present for my girlfriend. Here I found both in a pleasant, homey type setting. If you are trying to avoid big box store b.s. this is a good place to stop.
The owner tells me her lease will not be renewed and everything is 30% off. Never too early to do some Christmas shopping

This is a great boutique for fabulous jewelry. Many unique pieces by designers and companies from all over the world. This is the BEST place to find a fabulous gift for that special someone or yourself! The staff and owner are all extremely knowledgeable and thoughtful with assistance and advice for just the right piece.
I usually shop here for the jewelry, but there is also a nice selections of tea sets, scarves, handbags, etc.
Today I heard the owner will be closing her doors next year for retirement. I will truly miss this lovely small business in Rockridge.

Itsy Bitsy is a gem of a shop with a wide selection of jewelry and accessories. Some of my favorite things have come from this shop, including a stylish hat that I wear all the time and it never fails to earn a compliment. The owner has lovely taste and the employees are friendly and helpful.

Itsy Bitsy has a wonderful selections of quality jewelry with a wide price range that won’t put a large dent in your pocket. The shop is one of the few businesses in the Rockridge area that have survived. The employees are very helpful and knowledgeable about what piece of jewelry might be the best fit for you. Zales and Kay have nothing on Itsy Bitsy.

I absolutely love this store. They have a wide selection of earrings, ranging from very affordable to splurge. They also have great pendants, necklaces, bracelets — all sorts of jewelry really. I came in recently to get a chain for a pendant and they were very helpful; as usual, I also ended up buying earrings! I can’t come in here without buying something — when I come in to buy for someone else, I always end up with something for myself as well.
The owner is very nice and helpful, as is the other woman who I think is her daughter.
Great vibe, great selection, great store

This is my FAVORITE art jewelry store. They have a fantastic selection, in really all price ranges. You can get earrings under $ 10, or up to $ 500 or more. She always has top craft artists, many you can also find at SFMOMA or other high end craft stores. She has a good selection of handbags, scarves and beautiful asian items for the dinning. I just love this store! Its an Oakland treasure!

Really nice, cool jewelry. Really helpful and friendly people. I love this place! I took my nine year old to Itsy Bitsy after her ears were pierced, and — with the kind help of the owner — found some very appropriate and affordable earrings for her. I’ve never bought anything beside earrings here, but they have purses, scarves, and gifty-​type things, too. Go there!

Great little place to buy a gift of jewelry or other trinkets. The owner is a very helpful and friendly woman. It is also a dog friendly place, so I often stop to browse while walking my canine friend. He loves stopping in because there is always a scratch and a treat coming from behind the counting.

This is where I go whenever I need a last minute gift. They’ve never disappointed me. Very cute stuff, often from small, local craftspeople. The owner is really sweet. Now if only I could stop her from offering me plastic packaging each time.

My new go to for gifts. They have jewelry, purses and more gift items than I can list. The owner is super nice and friendly.

interesting and inexpensive to moderately expensive asian gifty items as well as tons of jewelry from funky to artistic to elegant. Great mix of stuff to peruse. I hesitate going in because I know I will find something I must have!
Beware — if you are only window shopping… don’t bump your nose! ;)

Itsy-​Bitsy is great, that’s all I can say.
When I was a lot younger, I got my ears pierced here and the owner did it completely painlessly since she started a conversation with me as she pierced my ears. She told me all about caring for my ears and was super super helpful. Since then, I have purchased quite a few pairs of earrings and bracelets here for myself and as gifts, and none of their jewelry gas ever irritated my ears or broken. The employees are really nice, and overall, Itsy-​Bitsy is a five-​star kind of place!!!

3.5 stars. Cute little shop jam packed full of earrings, bracelets, hairclips, etc. Since my ears are no longer pierced, I can only adorn myself in rings & necklaces. Maybe I am secretly jealous of women who can wear earrings and since this shop has tons of cute earrings that I can never wear, I didn’t linger long.
They do have a wonderful Japanese tea ceremony room in here! I was amazed, it is on the small side, but an unexpected surprise. They also carry colorful, modern Japanese tea pots. They also have adornments for home butsudans (Buddhist altars).
Service is helpful and friendly. I could tell that locals keep this shop going as I overheard women coming in for the special watch or bracelet they ordered.

If you need to buy a gift for any woman of any age — and, really, doesn’t that include all of us? — then you absolutely must, must have Itsy Bitsy in your arsenal.
They haven’t failed me in decades, and I can’t tell you how many friends I’ve steered their way. All have fallen under the spell cast by Itsy Bitsy…

I read one of the reviews said that this shop could change hook earrings to the clips. So I went there today. I told the owner that I was looking for some cute clips which was under 10 dollars. She tried to find the earrings what I want and she did. Even though those earrings were hook style, she did change them to the clips. There are various earrings in the store and the prices of them are acceptable. Some earrings are 20 dollars and some earrings are 10 dollars.
If you are looking for clips, you should visit to this store.
By the way, I was so surprised that the owner can speak Chinese; moreover, she is very friendly. Another women who speaks Japanese is also friendly.

This is a great place to find unique gifts for friends and family. Their fashion jewelry selection is quite extensive and their prices run the gamut depending on how much you want to spend.
The women who run the store are very helpful as well as friendly. Stop in if you are looking for a gift for the person in your life who has everything.

This jewelry store sits conveniently along College Ave. and I am always tempted to stop by for a browse whenever I’m in the area!
My last visit found me take away an unique silver necklace with wings made of faux-​diamond studs. To this today it’s still my favorite necklace to wear.
It’s a great place to find jewelry and gifts for all the women in your life. They also have cute Japanese gifts, sushi plates, tea-​sets, and decorative nicknacks for around the house.

I bought my most favorite earrings here. They’re small, silver hoop earrings. The thing is, when I first saw them, I wasn’t instantly in love with them. I found them to be too shiny, and I told the owner that I would prefer them to have matte finish. When she said to me, «I can make them matte.» — I was surprised!
She took the shiny silver hoops, and proceeded to softly buff them down with a rough textured sponge. Within 5 minutes, she created a matte finish on the silver hoops! WOW, customized refinishing!
With customer service like that, I can’t help but sing their praises at Itsy Bitsy.

It’s been forever since I bought my wife jewelry (mea culpa), but this xmas I had a vision for a style of earrings that might be perfect for her. She looks great in a certain color of bright blue, and because she’s short, she has very few pendant earrings. I was ready to shell out $ 150 for a pair of *short* opal pendants seen online, but they wouldn’t have arrived from Israel on time.
Then a friend suggested Itsy Bitsy. It’s a small shop, comfortable, with an amazing diversity of attractive women stuff. I was greeted with a friendly, sales-​pitch free smile, asked what I was looking for, and shown some possible answers right away. Not sure, I said I’d just browse for a bit, and was left alone until I was ready with a decision. By the time I made my purchase, I’d seen every piece of opal they had in the place, and while there was only one pair of earrings that met my exact criteria, they met those criteria perfectly… and my wife loved them!
I’ve rated them as inexpensive, but please don’t get the idea that they don’t have some great, high-​quality jewelry. For example, I could only afford man-​made opal, but they’ve got the real deal, too.
I’ll definitely be back, as soon as inspiration for another gift hits me.

You know that scene in act 2 of a plethora of bad 80’s movies where the protagonist, feeling lost, is led somehow into a dark, cluttered, dusty old shop, often in the heart of china town*, where a mysterious and worldly but also quirky and pushy salesclerk leads him to the gem of understanding he didn’t know he was looking for?
That’s sort of like Itsy Bitsy. The sales clerks here will dig into cabinets and corners to find the exact piece that will complete the circle of your life. Give her the slightest hint of what you want and she will bring you piece after piece, watching your reactions carefully to narrow what you previously thought were carefully developed aesthetics down to a science. Before you know it, she’s handing you the piece of jewelery you always wanted but would have never picked out for yourself.
Buying a necklace here was at once pleasant, at once disconcerting. It’s not the sort of place you accidentally wander into more than once. However, if I have a present or special occasion to last minute shop for, I know where I will have success.
*lending to my love of this place is that its in bougie town Rockridge