There is only one piece (two if you want to be particular as they are separate but together, you know, well maybe you don’t but you will, read on) of jewelery that goes everywhere with me. That I love above all others. That means more to me than anything else in my collection. My wedding band and engagement ring. The killer combo. They are soooo me. Personalised. A perfect reflection of the moments in time that they arrived. A symbol beyond anything I thought I would buy in to. I guess I just didn’t get the power of the symbolism. I didn’t expect to feel any different.
But I did.
I felt loved, wanted, desired, captured, comforted, labelled and like I was a chapter in the history of someones life. In someone else’s family. That I mattered. And of course, my rings are pretty. Very pretty. Haha! Such a girl thing to say. You see I look down sometimes and my rings remind me of all those things. And of the look on my Hubby’s face the day I walked down the aisle. And the look he gave me just the day before in exasperation that I still, after all these years, refuse to start the mower myself. The entire world of our relationship is right there. It’s not the basis of it but they are a space keeper of sorts.
And I can be a little disloyal to my beloved. There. I said it. You see just the other day I looked at a friends brand new, sparkley (massive) engagement ring and was a little jealous. Who wouldn’t want a carat or two of diamond? And I joked with hubby that it certainly shows that we were barely twenty when we got engaged. My rings are beautiful. One of a kind. Unique. But two carats of diamond it is not. And you know what, I love that.
So there it is. An insight. My favourite piece of adornment.
The adornment experiment is the brain child of the lovely Rianna at The Last Doll Standing. If you don’t know this blog, then hustle your backside over there and check it out. It is jam packed with fashion and general fabulousness. And if you wanted to participate you could join me in the late submitter category and maybe, just maybe she’ll take pity on us.
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Updated 09/04/2010 with images of my rings. Completely embarrassing as they are filthy dirty and scratched up. Lovely though. Always lovely.
PLUS Rianna posted this at her blog. And has conceded that she will make the Adornment Experiment a weekly guest post..! Yay. Submit your entry now. Be the first.
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Updated 09/04/2010 with images of my rings. Completely embarrassing as they are filthy dirty and scratched up. Lovely though. Always lovely.
PLUS Rianna posted this at her blog. And has conceded that she will make the Adornment Experiment a weekly guest post..! Yay. Submit your entry now. Be the first.
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