Earrings

Hammered Hoops

April 8, 2010

Piece #2 of 100 These look like earrings that I might have bought myself in the seventies. Very hippie, craftie, homemade looking. They are three inches in length, and although I’m pretty certain they are not silver, I don’t know what they are made of. Maybe nickel? These hippie-style earrings show of another side of [...]

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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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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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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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Fabulous Fakes!

March 9, 2010

What I remember most about my mother’s jewelry box was the glamour! When I was six years old, one of my favorite treats was sitting next to my mother and watching her sort through her jewelry. She would pick out individual pieces and tell me stories about where she bought them, or when my father [...]

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Ruby Red Facets

March 9, 2010

My mom’s jewelry always brings a huge smile to my face. She had the good luck to have beautiful features (a cross between Elizabeth Taylor and Judy Garland) and the smarts to buy lots of wonderful costume jewelry in the 1950′s. My most favorite piece is a stunning ruby red faceted necklace with three strings [...]

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I Haven’t Parted With It

March 7, 2010

My mother had lovely antic pieces among her jewelery collections. Among them, one particular pair of earrings would fascinate me as a child. The ear rings were made of rubies and pearls in a closed setting encased in gold. I was so much in awe of them that I would insist on wearing them on [...]

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Halloween

March 5, 2010

My mother had a vanity full of perfumes, costume jewelry and make-up and all sorts of beautiful whatzits and whatnots that to a nine-year old seemed amazing. But she had so much, you never thought she’d miss any of it. You’d have thought. Every year, our elementary school provided pumpkins to the students. The children [...]

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