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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

I remember many years ago I was an inexperienced and fearful air traveler. I was flying across country and we ran into turbulence. The airplane and I were bouncing around and I was very nervous. My source of hope and comfort came from the pair of gold hoop earrings I was wearing. They had belonged […]

Well, we all know that old people need to be treated and cared for just like small children. I realized this only when my own parents started getting older and older and when they started needing help and support for almost all of their daily activities. They had started losing their teeth, their hair, their […]

I am very happy to recall my memories regarding my parents especially my mom. She is my god, not only god but everything,my friend, sister, everything. I have learned so much from my mom. She is a woman of good character. She taught me my first step to my life. Now I am settled and […]

My father is a diabetic patient, so it’s difficult for him to control his food and he sometimes eats tasty foods and sugar cookies and cakes when am not on my home, just like when I was a child and my parents would hide food items from me. Now the situation has reversed and that […]

When I was 15 years old, my mother took me to her friend’s son’s wedding. That day while she was making up, I took a glance inside her jewelry box and there was that little ring that is indeed the most pretty thing I had ever seen. She told me that her favorite ring and […]