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I have simplified my jewelry. Here is what I currently own:
1. Wedding ring set
2. Small diamond studs
3. Watch
4. Leather cuff
5. Metal turquoise cuff
6. Silver necklace with son's name and one pearl... this one... http://www.lisaleonardonline.com/single-tag-necklace-P401.aspx
7. Silver dangle earrings
8. Gold dangle earrings
9. Silver cross on chain
It makes getting ready very easy.
Isn't it cute? I was able to get it 20% off and it's quite nice. :)
I wear the same jewelry everyday - my wedding ring, anniversary band, sapphire ring, and small diamond stud earrings. Sometimes I wear small hoop earrings instead. I have a couple necklaces that I often wear when I go out, but other than that I don't own much more but a few things I inherited from my mother and grandmother. All fits in a small tidy jewelry box.
While I adore seeing jewelry on other people, I've never been much of a jewelry lover myself. Aside from my wedding ring/engagement band, I don't wear anything else. I have a nice dress watch (for special occasions), along with a few other additions, but nothing that I wear regularly.
P.S. The silver necklace is pretty.
I used to be a jewelry whore. Wasted way to much of my precious life energy on working for it, acquiring it and then finding new homes when I got bored with it.
Now I am owning and wearing: one pair of silver earrings.
I do not promise that I will not buy anymore ever again. But for right now this is the perfect amount.
With my arthritis, I can't wear anything confining. Tight, bulky necklaces can send me over the edge quickly. LOL I really have enjoyed the simplicity and I get a lot of compliments. I like that I can wear what I have with jeans and a t-shirt and flip flops to a suit at work. :)
I have 3 nice rings in gold & platinum plus 1 set of family victorian gold earrings that I never wear. The rest is costume jewelry that comes and goes, it doesn't clutter my life because I don't care much about it.
At any one time I've got a favorite pair of earrings, but that changes from month to month.
I just, last weekend, sold to a jeweler an old ruby and gold ring that was cheap to begin with and now it just looks outdated and cheap. Got $55 for it.
Blackdog Lin
3-6-13, 12:22pm
I'm with Mrs. M: I enjoy seeing women who can really "wear" a lot of jewelry - all the mix-n-matching they do, the clunkiness, the way it can sometimes really pull an outfit together.
But alas, I just look ridiculous when I try. Daily I wear my wedding band, another silver ring on the other hand, and if I'm leaving the house I might put on one of 5 pairs of earrings. For dress-up occasions, I have a quality silver chain I might add.
I own more jewelry than that (mostly costume), but I never wear it.
I have wedding ring and watch I wear every day. Otherwise I have only one necklace. It's mainly turquoise and was designed and made for me by a friend who was 12 at the time. I told him the only requirement was that he had to make what he felt was beautiful. Then he and I had difficulty figuring out a price until I asked him what his mother's partner would charge and he instantly said $65--I think he must have asked the partner. Anyway, this boy was the only one of five sons who wanted to go into the family's work of jewelry-making. They are in Santo Domingo pueblo--known for the best heishi jewelry anywhere. This necklace is not heishi and is very unusual/creative. I never wear it except when I'm going to see him (and I always see him spying to see if I have it on) because jewelry distracts me, but I love it for his and its own sake.
I wish I knew how to put pictures here so you could see it.
I like jewelry, and have some nice pieces...mainly bracelets my ex gave me. My favorite is made with about 14 opals mounted in silver and I wear it much of the time.
I also have some junk I've held onto for no reason whatsoever and I need to do a purge. I'd like to have a simple list like MamaM's.
I hate necklaces, I feel choked when wearing them, I feel like my grandmother.
One of my friends has the same attitude about ties: he feels choked, he feels like his father. Fortunately he is a college prof and can get by with never a tie.
The only jewelry I can tolerate is small earrings and my wedding band. Other jewelry weighs me down, gives me a headache, makes me feel stifled and as though I'm sitting properly for the queen. I cant stand it.
I wear a watch at work cause Its part of my "equipment" ... and I take it iff and put it in my locker with my other supplies befoe leaving ork. So i wear the same tiny earrings every day, and when they break or get lost, I buy a new pair.
My current favorite piece is a 3-carat cushion cut CZ solitaire. Due to its size, it doesn't look remotely real but it's cool and clear and just sparkly enough to distract me. It doesn't see much daylight; I wear it for my own entertainment.
I love jewelry of every possible kind--from paper and plastic to platinum and precious gems and everything in between. I love looking at it, fondling it, and occasionally making it myself. I have files full of pictures of ancient ethnic amulets and torcs and earrings, as well as bakelite and polymer and natural opaque stones; I cruise Etsy and Pinterest for inspiration; I check out books on the subject (Africa Adorned and Read My Pins are favorites. I troll for treasures at thrift stores and often find them. I guess you could say jewelry is one of my (many) passions.
I'm like KayLRZ and JaneV2.0 in loving jewelry. I feel like I don't have the length - short arms and fingers - to really set it off, but I love it. Might have something to do with my artistic sensibilities. Especially since my wardrobe is basic, accessories can make the same pieces look different.
I love rings and bracelets best - especially cuff bracelets. I have a Wonder Woman cuff that looks just like the one the 1930's Wonder Woman wore in the early comics. It's not silver, just base metal, but it's fun and makes me feel powerful!
As a blonde pale person with invisible eyebrows, I disappear under silver or white gold unless there's a big old rock or interesting pendant attached to make the piece interesting. Oxidized silver has been fun in this respect. Black accessories like beaded necklaces and bracelets work well too.
So yes, I've got drawers of stuff, but I cycle through it pretty regularly. I do fantasize about chucking it all, though for, oh, maybe just one tennis bracelet, which I would never take off. But I'm an artist who loves color. It cheers me up just looking at my scads of accessories sometimes. And I do need cheer these days!
No jewelry here unless it's dangling or hoop ear rings when I go out. Otherwise nothing.
I'm like KayLRZ and JaneV2.0 in loving jewelry. I feel like I don't have the length - short arms and fingers - to really set it off, but I love it. Might have something to do with my artistic sensibilities. Especially since my wardrobe is basic, accessories can make the same pieces look different. ...
So yes, I've got drawers of stuff, but I cycle through it pretty regularly. I do fantasize about chucking it all, though for, oh, maybe just one tennis bracelet, which I would never take off. But I'm an artist who loves color. It cheers me up just looking at my scads of accessories sometimes. And I do need cheer these days!
The art angle of jewelry is huge with me. I love looking through the Lark 500 books and marveling at craftsmanship old and new. Color and line and texture, minerals nugget and faceted, shiny and matte... I have a hunk of rock crystal the color of mucus, cradled in fine black macrame netting on a long waxed cord that I adore. And a chicken pin painted on watercolor paper, lacquered, with seed bead feet I found at Value Village. I love it all.
http://www.simplelivingforum.net/attachment.php?attachmentid=1165&d=1362694096
So cute jane (took me a minute to figure out it was a chicken). I do love to look at jewery - especially funky stuff. I am a hobby rock hound myself (although I almost never keep the things I find but like to pound them out of rocks anyways) and enjoy the natural stuff like gems, minerals,and especially fossils I have dug out myself. Use to have a big rock and fossil collection before I gave in to my inner minimalist and gave it all away. had some fossils made into ear rings (trilobites are my favorite earrings but bugs in amber ear rings I have from the Baltic Sea are cool too). But now I'm more of a looker then wearer but nice to know others (you and Kitten) like those kinds of things too. I'm so use to my friends only liking "real" bling in all it's shiney costliest who diss my natural garnet or malacite stone earrings that i dug from the earth myself with my little rock hammer!
Really, the most expensive stuff--barring outstanding setting design--is the least interesting to me. I've seen a couple of $20,000 rubies up close and they don't look any better to me than lab-created ones. Good CZs outshine all but the most flawless diamonds, according to a jeweler I just saw on TV explaining how you can tell the difference (the diamonds have inclusions). Like you, I like the eclectic--natural stones, shrink art, upcycled pieces, pewter charms, hammered bronze or brass--especially with a nice patina, little felted medallions with beads and embroidery...but I yammer on. Here's a little sublimity:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/metalclay4u/sets/72157627859623426/
Not all of it is jewelry, but all of it is sublime.
Really, the most expensive stuff--barring outstanding setting design--is the least interesting to me. I've seen a couple of $20,000 rubies up close and they don't look any better to me than lab-created ones. Good CZs outshine all but the most flawless diamonds, according to a jeweler I just saw on TV explaining how you can tell the difference (the diamonds have inclusions). Like you, I like the eclectic--natural stones, shrink art, upcycled pieces, pewter charms, hammered bronze or brass--especially with a nice patina, little felted medallions with beads and embroidery...but I yammer on. Here's a little sublimity:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/metalclay4u/sets/72157627859623426/
Not all of it is jewelry, but all of it is sublime.
But that's why I now have yen for only natural rubies and emerald, 'specially emeralds--the real one are so flawed. They are individuals.
I love rocks and minerals, too. They are beautiful and interesting.
Normally I'm not much of a "fine" jewelry person, I just had a weird jag the past year. Maybe an alien took over my brain, I don't know. Anyway, I could spend 2 hours in a rock shop but can only shope in a mall jewelry chain store for about 8 minutes.
I like natural but flawed, but not enough to justify paying huge amounts of money. I eyed strands of mined emerald beads recently--little nuggets of lovely green--but so far haven't sprung for them. They weren't expensive.
http://www.etsy.com/search?q=natural%20emerald%20beads&view_type=gallery&ship_to=US&ref=auto4
Mall jewelry stores--not so much. We need to jet off to Vicenza and shop the showrooms. http://www.kolobok.us/smiles/artists/laie/Laie_43.gif
I like natural but flawed, but not enough to justify paying huge amounts of money. I eyed strands of mined emerald beads recently--little nuggets of lovely green--but so far haven't sprung for them. They weren't expensive.
http://www.etsy.com/search?q=natural%20emerald%20beads&view_type=gallery&ship_to=US&ref=auto4
Mall jewelry stores--not so much. We need to jet off to Vicenza and shop the showrooms. http://www.kolobok.us/smiles/artists/laie/Laie_43.gif
Some of those are really nice!
Wow, I am so simplistic. The only jewelry I wear is my engagement ring which will soon be paired with my wedding ring in 9 days. I also never take off the necklace my late fiance (aka the captain) gave me which is a gold replica of his fire department badge with his badge number (316). Quite fittingly, I am marrying my current fiance on 3/16 and he is also a firefighter. I do so love the number 316.
I also have a lovely charm bracelet (that I wear occasionally) which has solid silver and gold charms which are:
a solid gold "red bean" charm which a quintessential New Orleans symbol (from the captain)
a gold bell charm with a diamond on it (from the captain)
a silver FEMA trailer charm ( from the captain, as a memento of our time lived in a FEMA trailer after Katrina)
a silver miniature "engagement ring" charm (from the captain)
a silver pair of cowboy boots charm (from the captain as I love to wear sundresses and cowboy boots)
a silver kitty (from BayouBoy's daughter aka my stepdaughter)
a silver bookworm (from BayouBoy's other daughter, I love to read and am a former librarian)
a silver "Louisiana" shaped charm
a silver frog charm( one of my names mean frog in another language)
a miniature New Orleans manhole cover charm (oddly, manhole covers in New Orleans are often stolen because they are decorative and have become a symbol of New Orleans)
Iris Lily, I LOVE rocks and minerals too. The best vacation I ever went on was when we went mining for gemstones in Kentucky and Tennessee as a teen. I loved it. I also have a rock garden and collect fossils and shells. I would LOVE to go mining again!!
Charm bracelets have caught my fancy lately. So personal and such fun to build.
I love charm bracelets. They are a perfect gift to give a girl and you can add to them on special occasions. There are so many wonderful and unique charms out there.
IshbelRobertson
3-8-13, 6:25am
Lots of the stuff!
Some of which has to live in the bank, but are family pieces that I don't feel able to sell, but don't like enough to wear and is worth too much just to leave in the house.
My husband has bought me significant pieces on birthdays, wedding anniversaries, Christmas and child births. And yet, apart from ear rings and necklaces which I change with every outfit, I wear the same wedding, engagement and eterniy ring set, a silver bracelet and my watch. I have three other, more expensive watches, which are also inthe bank.
He's under strict instructions: NO MORE SPARKLY/SHINY THINGS. :D
What amazing things! I love that Thagomizer, the dinosaur, he's so cute! I wonder if there's a store attached to this?
omg, I come here trying to be simple, and now I'm getting triggered by droolworthy stuff again ;)
Really, the most expensive stuff--barring outstanding setting design--is the least interesting to me. I've seen a couple of $20,000 rubies up close and they don't look any better to me than lab-created ones. Good CZs outshine all but the most flawless diamonds, according to a jeweler I just saw on TV explaining how you can tell the difference (the diamonds have inclusions). Like you, I like the eclectic--natural stones, shrink art, upcycled pieces, pewter charms, hammered bronze or brass--especially with a nice patina, little felted medallions with beads and embroidery...but I yammer on. Here's a little sublimity:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/metalclay4u/sets/72157627859623426/
Not all of it is jewelry, but all of it is sublime.
Interesting about the rock thing - we found a store like this in town last weekend, and the displays are breathtaking - carved amethyst chest sets, onyx and quartz skulls - big ones! Tabletops made of geodes and agate and stuff, and bowls full of opalite marbles and jasper pendants and calcite obelisks and on and on. Gorgeous with the early morning sun making everything sparkle. Even if I had the dough to collect some of this stuff, though, I have nowhere to put it. And the cat would be constantly knocking it over.
Hubby did say he liked one of the end tables - topped with a big geode slice lined with tiny crystals. That was a revelation to me. I had no idea he ever thought of tables, lol
Trilobites rule!
So cute jane (took me a minute to figure out it was a chicken). I do love to look at jewery - especially funky stuff. I am a hobby rock hound myself (although I almost never keep the things I find but like to pound them out of rocks anyways) and enjoy the natural stuff like gems, minerals,and especially fossils I have dug out myself. Use to have a big rock and fossil collection before I gave in to my inner minimalist and gave it all away. had some fossils made into ear rings (trilobites are my favorite earrings but bugs in amber ear rings I have from the Baltic Sea are cool too). But now I'm more of a looker then wearer but nice to know others (you and Kitten) like those kinds of things too. I'm so use to my friends only liking "real" bling in all it's shiney costliest who diss my natural garnet or malacite stone earrings that i dug from the earth myself with my little rock hammer!
"Trilobites rule!"
I've always been partial to those armored squid--orthoceras--but I'm a fool for cephalopods. Uyehara's colorized cuttlefish practically makes me cry, it's so lovely.
"Trilobites rule!"
I've always been partial to those armored squid--orthoceras--but I'm a fool for cephalopods. Uyehara's colorized cuttlefish practically makes me cry, it's so lovely.
Cockroaches of the Mesozoic!! OK Can't remember what period they are from Jurrasic? Triasic? Crustacus? Cantspellic? When I get home I'll post some pics of my trilobite "jewels" for you to oogle :-)! I like the fact that I dug them up myself and they didn't cost me a thing - except to have them made into earrings. www.fireandice.com/sterling-silver-trilobite-dangle-earrings.html
Cambrian. I looked it up. But I love the Crustacus period--it's the one I was born in.
BTW: Gordon Uyehara offers on-line video classes (reasonably priced) through CraftArtEdu so you can make lovely metal clay creatures yourself. I took a metal clay class and all I left with was a handful of silver wads. But don't let that stop you.
This is turning into an amusing thread, I wonder that the OP thinks about the turn it has taken.
I think it's awesome. : )
I only own my wedding band. Everything else I sold years ago.
Some great things on this site, including just the earrings for Iris Lily:
http://www.etsy.com/listing/66546414/sterling-silver-pug-earrings-daisy?
Some great things on this site, including just the earrings for Iris Lily:
http://www.etsy.com/listing/66546414/sterling-silver-pug-earrings-daisy?
Those are funny, i love them!
I don't wear jewelry regularly anymore. I never liked bracelets. I used to wear necklaces to work just to dress things up. Always wore small gold hoops, but recently gave those up too. For one thing, I swim a lot and it's not simple to try and store them when I swim. Wearing them just tears the bathing cap. They get lost easily. I do various task around the house using power tools and wearing jewelry including a watch can be dangerous with those, since they may catch. The final nail in the coffin for me is that many of the things used in jewelry are mined/produced under horrible conditions in poor countries. These people are exploited. Plus environmentally destructive. I'm not trying to guilt trip anyone here, it's just my own decision. There are many horrid condition for clothing producers, too, and I still wear clothes, albeit mostly second hand ones. It's much simpler not to have to deal with jewelry on a daily basis. I'm planning to give much of it to charity since I'm now in decluttering mode.
However, I do have some family pieces. Not particularly valuable, but just things that help me remember those women from my family who are now gone. I will likely wear those if there is a special occasion, and pass them along to others in the family at some point. I think that those women were not flooded with cheap jewelry so they only had a few special pieces (great grandmothers, great aunts, grandmothers) I like to think about them and their lives.
I do like artistic jewelry made from everyday things. To appreciate, though not to wear. I do have one or two of those "Habitat for Humanity" pins that were gifts and have meaning. So, I guess, I like keepsakes. Actually wearing jewelry makes me feel odd, something extraneous, like a display case rather than a person. I think it always has.
I have a friend whose husband buys her expensive jewelry. When she shows it off, I always think, "If it were me, I'd rather have a really good shovel for the garden or a good power drill set, or even a table saw. But then, I'm a plain and practical woman who doesn't have a lot of money. Also, a big relief not to wear jewelry regularly anymore.
http://www.simplelivingforum.net/attachment.php?attachmentid=1183&d=1362851332
Speaking of "made from everyday things:"
Inner tube dog pin and leather butterflies, treasure from Value Village.
Cambrian. I looked it up. But I love the Crustacus period--it's the one I was born in.
BTW: Gordon Uyehara offers on-line video classes (reasonably priced) through CraftArtEdu so you can make lovely metal clay creatures yourself. I took a metal clay class and all I left with was a handful of silver wads. But don't let that stop you.Oh no - now you're making me work (that horride 4-letter word!!). Well I am probably more in the clutz dept than you when it comes to crafts so won't attempt anything like that - will just let Sven continue to buy me some pretty pretty things :-)! I just drilled little holes and put hooks on mine but I bet they would be very pretty wrapped in silver. www.fireandice.com/sterling-silver-trilobite-dangle-earrings.html
Ooooh--teeny little 'bites! I don't think I've ever seen them that small.
So adorable!
http://www.simplelivingforum.net/attachment.php?attachmentid=1183&d=1362851332
Speaking of "made from everyday things:"
Inner tube dog pin and leather butterflies, treasure from Value Village.
JaneV2.0, I'd love to see a photo of that cz ring you have...
JaneV2.0, I'd love to see a photo of that cz ring you have...
http://www.qvc.com/Epiphany-Diamonique-100-Facet-Cushion-Cut-Ring.product.J270377.html?sc=J270377-Zone&cm_scid=zone&cm_sp=MERCHZONE-_-Featured:+Best+Sellers-_-1
That is wonderful -100 facets, love it! :)
http://www.qvc.com/Epiphany-Diamonique-100-Facet-Cushion-Cut-Ring.product.J270377.html?sc=J270377-Zone&cm_scid=zone&cm_sp=MERCHZONE-_-Featured:+Best+Sellers-_-1
That is wonderful -100 facets, love it! :)
Yeah--sparkly and cheap. Brings our my Dolly Parton side. (Smiles, showing dimples.)
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