I am at that age where I have to ask what a blog is. The kids today know all that, I think they must be born knowing all this techno stuff, most of it goes right over my head like a 747 but this is the start of a new adventure for me, so here goes.
I have to say I LOVE jewelry. I love looking at it, buying it, collecting it and making it. I have been attracted to sparkley things for as long as I can remember. As a child of about six or seven years old I had a little box and in it I kept several large cut crystal beads, I had a ruby red one, an emerald green, a royal blue and a clear one which when held up to the eye looked like a prism with a rainbow inside. I'm not sure where I got these beads but feel sure they must have come from my Grandma who also loved jewelry.
These beads where very precious to me, the odd time I was home from school and sick in bed these beads gave me hours of facination. I would lay in bed looking through these beads with their beautiful colors and they had an almost hypnotic effect on me. Occasionally now, I will glimpse a moment from the past when I look into my Swarovski crystals and I will go back to a wonderful childhood.
Saturday mornings were my time to go and visit my Grandma in the hopes of talking her into getting out her jewelry box so I could look at all her wonderful collection. It wasnt very often she would actually get them out but it was always exciting when she did. sometimes she would let me hold things in my hands, always with a warning to "dont break it". Grandma had some wonderful things that of course today would be worth a lot of money. Three things I remember so well, the first was a big black oval shaped locket, the front of which had beautifully carved raised roses on it, it hung from a big link black chain, all this I found out many years later was refered to as Victorian Mourning jewelry. The second piece was all stone carved beads with a large hanging pendant in a rather unususal orange color, at that time I had never heard of Egypt but later on I realised I had been looking at a very popular style of jewelry from the late twenties, of course it was Hyroglyphics that were carved on the beads. I have had a facination for Egypt since my teenage years and it is one of the places I would love to visit before I leave this earth. The last and most impresive piece was the Tiara, as a child I thought you had to be Royalty to own one of those, little did I know at that time that I was going to wear the Tiara on my wedding day, I definately felt like a Queen that day and even wore the matching earrings which I still have and which will be passed to one of my girls one day.
My Mother also loved shiney things and used to tell me she thought she must have been a blackbird or raven or maybe it was a crow in her last life, her and I loved to go shopping for anything that glittered.
