I’ve been thinking about doing a post featuring my paternal grandmother’s jewelry for awhile, and when I saw that this week’s IFB challenge was all about jewelry, it felt like perfect timing. My paternal grandmother passed away when I was quite young, but I remember how creative and artistic she was, and this included making her own jewelry. Most of her costume jewelry came to me, and I remember spending hours as a child going through her collection.
Happy memories. 
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I still have these delicate beaded necklaces with little rose and bird charms that she made me, and I was delighted when I realized these mirrored some of her own pieces!
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Some of my grandmother’s pieces are quite flamboyant (I’m talking chunky carved elephants and parrots here), so I never wore much of it as a teen or young woman. In fact, I never really wore much jewelry at all until I lived in the Middle East, where I was certainly influenced by the mix of cultures and styles. I also started wearing scarves regularly while living in the UAE, another great style byproduct and influence of my time there.
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So I started wearing more jewelry in general and slowly adding in some of my grandmother’s long necklaces and dangly earrings into my regular jewelry rotation.
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I’m still incorporating more and more of her pieces into my daily style (for more outfits featuring my grandmother’s jewelry, click here, here, here, here and here), and each time I go through her jewelry collection, it feels like a rediscovery of my grandmother’s creativity and personal style. ♥
Link ups: IFB Project #92
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