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Her Wedding Ring

March 28, 2010

My mom has never been a big wearer of jewelry, a pair of earrings here, a necklace there, but always wearing her wedding ring. This is a piece of jewelry that in 29 years I have never seen off of my mothers finger. She works in the garden with it, does dishes, gives the dogs [...]

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Something Blue Passed Down

March 27, 2010

As a child, my grandmother had this gorgeous sapphire ring. It was a stunning piece really, something antique you could not find anywhere. In fact, it was given to her by my grandfather’s mother in the 1930′s. Anyways, when we were at my grandparent’s house, I used to play around wearing all of my grandmother’s [...]

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Pretty Things for Little Girls

March 26, 2010

My mom seldom wore jewelry, but when she did it was big bold pieces that made a statement. I remember a snake wrap bracelet and a rather large lion’s head necklace too. My grandmother, on the other hand, had a little girl’s dream come true for a jewelry collection! She had beautiful diamond rings and [...]

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Mom Had The Funnest Stuff!

March 25, 2010

My mom was a nut for costume jewelry. She had all sorts of necklaces, earrings and pins that were always ‘over-the-top’! My favorite necklace was a huge assortment of ‘gems’, all about and inch wide and the entire necklace was as big around as a hula-hoop! I used it for Halloween one year when I [...]

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Trinkets from Around the World

March 24, 2010

When I was a kid, I used to poke around in my mom’s jewelry box when she wasn’t home. My dad had been in the Merchant Marines during WWII and traveled to North Africa. Some of the most interesting things in her jewelry box were a silver ring and brooch made to look like African [...]

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Circle of Trees

March 23, 2010

I remember sitting on my mom’s lap as a child, and her having a pin that she wore almost all the time. It was a silver circular pin, with two trees woven in the pin, and two deer standing among the trees. I love this silver pin, I remember sitting on her lap, and playing [...]

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The Pearl Necklace

March 22, 2010

Throughout my childhood I would always go through my mom’s jewelery box whenever I had the chance and was ready to dress up and play. My mom had a lot of jewelery to choose from, but the one piece I remember the most was her pearl necklace. She received it from her grandmother and eventually [...]

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The Emerald that Lasted Generations!

March 21, 2010

Hello, my name is Kimberly and I would like to share my story about a piece of jewelry that has been in my family since the late 1800s. It belonged to my great great great grandmother, and has been passed down ever since. My grandmother knows a lot about the ring, and says that it [...]

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Grandma’s Jewelry Box

March 20, 2010

As a child, I remember finding a old looking jewelry chest. When I had opened it it had cheap jewelry, but in my eyes at that age, it looked like expensive jewelry. A set of fake pearls, a pin to go on your jacket, gold colored earrings and necklaces. I thought it was the greatest [...]

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