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Aqua Pearl Leaves

May 6, 2010

Piece #9 of 100: Excuse me. Did your mother leave her pearl earrings in my mother’s jewelry box? Because I don’t know how these got here. Really. Never saw my mom wearing anything like this. No dangle at all. Ha rrumph! They’re beautiful though, aren’t they? With a Coco Chanel suit, or maybe one a [...]

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Navy Florentine Brooch

May 2, 2010

Piece #8 of 100: Over the last year, friends and family have inquired about Mom’s health (she’s fine, considering) and what’s new with me? Well, I answer, I’m going to blog about Mom’s jewelry. You mean you are going to sell it? No, I’m not going to sell it, I’m going to write about it. [...]

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Rhinestone Dangles

April 25, 2010

Piece #6 of 100 I first wore these beauties on New Year’s Eve, and have managed to find a few other opportunities since then! They are definitely conversation starters. At about 4″ inches long (shoulder dusters) I think of them of one of Mom’s most iconic pieces. They really represented her taste in bling and [...]

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Busted into Two Pieces

April 22, 2010

My mother’s jewelry box is in my closet, busted into two pieces. (I have five kids, and while no one confessed, I know it wasn’t me or the cat. We don’t have a cat.) I have coveted my mom’s jewelry box for years. It looks like a miniature Edwardian dresser with three felt-lined drawers and [...]

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Russian Onion Domes

April 22, 2010

Piece #5 of 100 Here’s another one I never saw Mom wear, but I love it. I googled “Russian spires” to get a bit of history of this type of architecture. Here’s what I learned from Wikipedia, loosely paraphrased as follows: Onion domes became a typical feature of Russian architecture starting with Byzantine churches. The [...]

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Rubies and Rhinestones

April 18, 2010

Piece #4 of 100 Okay, I fess up. These are not really rubies, but the rhinestones are real! These are the earrings that Shoey wore during our first photo shoot. I am now calling that our “first” photo shoot, because we are planning more. Woo hoo! These sparkly dangles are about two inches long, and [...]

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Tumultuous Relationship

April 16, 2010

God bless you for finding such a kind way to get past your relationship with your mom. My relationship with my mother was awful to put it kindly. I did everything to make her well that I could, including to wish I had her cancer. She was giving up and I told her we could [...]

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Alzheimer’s Symptoms

April 15, 2010

I admit that I’m scared to death that I’ll be following down Mom’s path to Alzheimer’s. And as I age, I am finding that sometimes a word or a name will just slip away from me, until I stop thinking about it, and then it pops back into my memory as quickly as it left! [...]

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Princess Necklace

April 14, 2010

When I was a little girl I loved to look inside my Mother’s jewelery box. My absolute favorite pieces were two necklaces I never saw her wear. I think she wore them in her younger years when she dressed for fancy dances. They were made of sparkly rhinestones. I thought they looked like diamonds, something [...]

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