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Circle of Trees

by on 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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Grandma’s Jewelry Box

by on 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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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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The Pearl Earrings

March 4, 2010

My mother was never big on jewelry. She always said her kids were her most beautiful accessory, as she carted all six of us with her everywhere she went. Yet she wore the same pair of earrings every day, beautiful gold and pearl earrings. They were given to her by her mother. My three sisters [...]

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