Tease

I'm a little like a proud mom.

I just can't seem to resist taking pictures of the jewelry all together.

So many tarnished pieces that I love---

seeing them all draped on my mannequin makes me rather giddy.

Thanks for looking at my babies :-)

The Evil Eye

I showed this piece on my last post, but I wanted to explain a little about it.

It's another one of those interesting Victorian stories 

(well, at least I think they're interesting).

The centerpiece of this necklace was a pin. Consisting of a cat's eye shell in the center of a heart made from tortoise shell. The Victorians believed these shells looked like eyes and used them frequently in jewelry to symbolize the evil eye and to ward off danger and misfortune. The shell is called an Operculum, which is the door to a snail shell.

I suspect this pin was given to a sweetheart to keep her safe while her loved one was away.

Thanks so much for visiting!

Moo.

Well, what do you know... 

I certainly didn't set out to find an old cow tag to use as a pendant.

But there it was, with its big, bold, industrial, "33".

Its crackly golden bronze colors screaming to live next to rhinestones and druzy quartz.

What a wonderfully unexpected combination.

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Red

                         I'm seeing red...

Little Red Riding hood.

Red beads from France.

Tiny red eyes.

Delicate red feathers.

Garnet red.

Sparkles of red.

A bowl-full of red.

Tick-tock, red.

Sisters with red.

And lovely red... ?

um?..

Oh, yes! 

Red, 

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Art Imitating Life...

Hmmmm... 

I made this necklace today... using a beautiful, antique, carved bone pendant.

Two little babies in a nest?

Yep, looks familiar.

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