Showing posts with label jewellery. Show all posts
Showing posts with label jewellery. Show all posts

Dec 30, 2010

My Little Spaces


As my home is full of various collections and hand-me-down furniture, (too sentimental to part with), my little spaces of special pieces are dotted around wherever I can fit them.
Here is a collection of vintage pieces in the softest of blue and pink colours. I just love the gentleness of the busts, it brings to mind, days of when time just lingered on. I love old jewellery too, what stories these pieces could tell!
Enjoy!

May 19, 2007

Marcasite

I love old jewellery, especially marcasite. It reminds me of my mother and my gran. As a child when we were feeling poorly, we were allowed to "play" with the jewellery box. This box was a blue padded empty chocolate box with a blue tassel. Inside was my mum's collection of jewellery, bits and pieces, mostly no longer worn, bits from her mum, many were marcasite. These were my favourite, their sparkle and intricate patterns fascinated me, they always looked so "rich" and I could imagine the ladies who would have worn them to fancy tea and dinner parties.
Today's Marcasite is inspired by the late Victorian era and early Edwardian/Art Noveau period.
Above is one of my first peices or Marcasite, with a mother of pearl watch face.