Singleton Jewels
March 11, 2008 by Tracee Sioux
Filed under Parenting
I keep these earrings – without their match – because . . .
After several years and a move to a new house in a new city I’m hoping to find it’s pair.
Because it’s dear to me and extremely expensive? (It’s mostly cheap crap from Claire’s Boutique.)
There’s one lapis earring up there that I liked so much I actually wore it (at least twice) with a different earring hoping to bring back that asymmetrical fashion of the 80s. I lost its pair around 2001.
Perhaps I’ve internalized my grandparents’ depression-era “waste not, want not” philosophy a little to deeply?
I wonder if Joshua over at Junk Creation can do something cool with a bunch of broken and matchless jewelry.
Tracee, a while back I was trying to ‘get organized
” and I was putting all my earrings into an ice cube tray (great tip from the internet) and I found I had the exact same thing – so many mismatches that I’m STILL hanging onto! And only like half of them are sentimental! What am I doing? Will I keep them so long that the other half become sentimental?
i do the exact same thing! i have a bunch of earrings with no mate. i’ve moved twice, once from a different state, and i keep hoping that both earrings are still somewhere in all my stuff and that they are anxious to reunite:)
It just seems wrong to throw away a handful of jewelry..
I really like that broken off peice of barette!
Of course, it’s always the ones you love and wear all the time that seem to lose a mate. I never seem to lose the ones I don’t care much about.
I have a jewelry box full of other crap too like necklaces that came unstrung, an ugly ring I found on the street and my personal progress bracelet I got as a Beehive in Young Women’s (remember those, mormon girls?)
I made some of my single earrings into charms for my charm bracelet though.
that’s a good idea Violet. I don’t really care about some of this stuff – it just feels ungrateful and gratuitous to throw it away.
I did that ice thing too – now I have those at the top of a shelf and never wear them! But, they are organized.
I like the charm bracelet idea. I have a bag of recently divorced earrings. I just recently started attaching them as decorations on demin handbags, jackets, whatever they look good on. I still love them even though their mate took off.
see I knew if I put it out there someone would have a great reason for me to hang onto my cheap jewels. great idea with the handbag, jackets, etc.
i’m a one-of-a-kind jewelry designer in CT and can often take single items and turn them into necklaces, or make a matching earring. check out my website at:
http://www.fiascojewelry.com
thanks!
steph