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Bygone Beads

October 8th 2009 12:42
pink gold


In my usual manner of finding something with a history to make a part of my future, this season I have rediscovered the beauty of vintage costume jewellery. It's not hard to uncover, in fact I'm sure most of us have bits and pieces entiwined around each other at the bottom of our faithful old jewellery boxes. Now is the time to go and see what you have.

gold pink 2


These gorgeous pink/old gold beauties I found coincidentally at the same time as this pink ruffle top - charity shop of course. I think they shall be attending a drinks night together shortly.

flower brooch


Even my faithful old denim jacket has been given a treat - I picked up this mother of pearl and faux gold brooch to decorate her with for $3.99. The wonderful thing about vintage brooches is that you can add them to simple daytime handbags for some evenng sparkle.

blue plastics


These baby blue beads were just the ticket for a floaty cotton smock I'll be wearing a lot of soon. I even love the fact that the catch is tarnished - these beads obviously have a past. And what's more they work well with my ...

boden dress


Boden dress (which came courtesy of ebay UK for a steal). So there is definitely a theme going for me this Spring/Summer.

pretty little things


Talented Lori makes her own pieces (above) by dismantling or collecting vintage odds and ends and restringing them.

My plan is to pick up pieces as I see them and have a colour selection on hand to choose from. This is a very inexpensive way to build a nice little collection of jewels - that will last. My theory is, If a piece has made it to 2009, you can be pretty sure it has been linked-to-last (unlike chainstore costume bling that falls apart on the second outing).

Sometimes though, it is nice to own something because it is simply lovely to look at. Therefore, this is often one of my last glimpses at night - go find yourself some pretty stuff to glimpse at too.

dressing table









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