Necklaces

Busted into Two Pieces

by on 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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Princess Necklace

by on 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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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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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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