Favourite jewellery

I have a lot of beautiful jewellery but wear some pieces much more than others, a favourite is a gold heart with three diamonds which hangs on a gold chain. DH also bought me the same necklace in platinum.
For our 50th anniversary DH bought a gold locket, so heavy that I feel like a mayor when I wear it.

Too many to list, all sorts, gold, silver and costume jewellery as well. I always wear ear-rings, a watch and either a bracelet or a necklace /pendent [but not both] and one or two rings.
I love them all.
DD1 bought me a gorgeous statement necklace this year in shades of green, it's heavy to wear but looks great.

I confess to loving jewellery on other people but never seem to find time to select a piece to wear when I go out !
I have some lovely rings bought as gifts for special occasions in my life, but my arthritic, swollen fingers just ruin the look.
I have a very elegant friend who, in her eighties, wears large spectacular rings on each (knarled) hand. She looks amazing.
My hands just look like a washerwoman's.

I don’t wear any of my jewellery apart from a Pandora bracelet my AC bought me picking a charm each and DH added one for my 70th, its my most precious piece and very special as they all chose their own favourite charm to add. None of my other pieces mean much to be honest and languishes in a drawer.

I wear only a few pieces these days.

A plain gold chain which my daughter gave me.
A pair of pearl earrings, my son's first gift to me when he got his first job.
A necklace with name in hyroglypics, bought when we were cruising down the Nile.
A simple band of diamonds , my wedding gift from DH on our wedding day 10 years ago.

I have a lot of costume jewellery but the one which is a bit special ( and cost the most money) is a strand of over lapping solid Amber little oval disc type beads bought in Prague on holiday. When we got home I priced a very similar in a jewellers which cost three times as much as I paid for it. Also have a lovely jade necklace and earrings bought in NZ again more expensive than I would usually buy but you can see both necklaces are more "classy" than my usual cheap ones.

The item I wear most is a 1.5 cm teardrop fake pearl on a leather shoe lace, but my favourite and only expensive piece took me weeks of passing the jeweller's shop and resisting before convincing myself that I deserved to spend the three figure sum it cost. It is this Baccarat pendant. The photo doesn't do it justice but the iridescence is lovely.

I rarely wear any of my jewellery. A beautiful ornate twenty four carat gold chain he bought in the Far East for me as a belated wedding present was stolen in a burglary and we did replace it with the nearest we could find, but I never wear it because all the meaning has gone out of it. However, he gave me a gold locket set with rubies for our fortieth and I do wear that. It contains two locks of GS’s hair. The only other piece I wear is a lovely modern blue john pendant that was a present from my Welsh sisters in law. But my out and out favourite has to be a string of tiny yellow beads on elastic thread that GS bought at a flea market with his pocket money while on his school trip to Paris! I wear it often, but wound round my wrist!
Bakelite brooches are very collectible now, NanKate. We see collections and single pieces come up at auctions here and they fetch decent prices. They are very attractive.

I’m not really “into” jewellery Nankate but I do have a special necklace that DH gave me about 20 years ago. We were on holiday (I remember them) in Cyprus and happened to pass a small jewellery shop which was closed but still lit up. DH stopped to look in the window (unusual because neither of us really bother with stuff like that) he pointed out a few bits and I nodded, smiled and we walked on. The holiday drew to an end and on our last night he presented me with a small box containing the most beautiful necklace I had ever seen, all the more special because he chose it and sneeked out to get it himself. I wear it often because it reminds me (and him) of happier times.