Archives for “Jewelry”
Thanks to everyone who dropped by today, commented, left reviews at amazon and ordered books! I appreciate all of you. Your names are in the cowboy hat, and the winner of the necklace is…. Donna Killian Donna, please send me your address at: SaintJohn@aol.com I’ll get your gift out to you asap! [...]
I can’t decide if the topic of this blog is interesting or just plain gross. My nose wrinkles when I think about it. I get itchy. My neck prickles. I don’t get this old Victorian practice at all, and it strikes me as too weird to explain. This fascination started during a chat with my [...]
My 96 ½ year old maternal grandmother is a pack rat. We discovered this when, at her insistence, the family began cleaning out her home and readying it to sell. After three days of sorting, my sister, mother and I sat down to go through her jewelry boxes. The memories were fun – [...]
I have always loved cameos. I received one as a birthday gift years ago, white carving on a brown background set in an antique gold broach, and it’s one of my favorite pieces of jewelry. Not because I wear it all the time, but because of the history of the [...]
