A Very MSE Advent

weenancyinAmerica

@Wanna_Bee_Free - I still talk to my parents and it has been 16 years since my mother died and 18 for my father. It still helps.

Have you ever considered making a tiny Christmas tree and using the remaining earrings to decorate it. We used the clip-on earrings we couldn't sell at the library yet to decorate a tree - and sold some of them that way - as decorations for packages and trees.

Sun_Addict

I’ve been to the pantomime today in a Christmas jumper and Christmas tree earrings 🎄🎄 Followed by a Christmas gin in the theatre bar. So a very festive day for me 🧑‍🎄 

Blackcats

we are are all having lots of festive fun!

I wore cheapy cheap pink bead earrings today (in contrast to @Sun_Addict's diamond bracelet)
I wanted to wear a pretty pastel jumper to fend off a drab December day.  I often wear the earrings in the summer but they certainly helped brighten the day,

anyone else find themselves planning the next day's sparkles at about this time?

KajiKita

@WannabeFree, don’t give up on finding pairs of earrings … I had a pair that I really liked and lost one of for about 5 years. I couldn’t bring myself to get rid of the remaining one and was even vaguely thinking of getting one made to match … It turned up c. 2 months ago 😊❤️

Advent jewellery….
Had a good rummage through boxes and drawers and bags last night and realised something …

I have consciously toned myself down in recent years and in work … Actually looking at the jewellery that means something to me and what I actually wear, I have ‘muted’ myself. Much of it is too powerful to wear in work, but I will be wearing it over Christmas… 😉😊 I will also be aiming to wearing it at weekends. 

For today though, as my quiet, calm professional persona 😉, I wore a rose quartz pendant and clear moss agate chips earrings with lime green and rich rose streaks in them 😊

KK

shandyclover

Wearing a new to me red and navy striped jumper today with navy jeans. The jumper has gold buttons on the shoulder so quite festive. All my own jewellery is silver so I dug out some gold dangly earrings that I've never worn. These were my grandmother's and came to me in a box of costume jewellery I can't part with as its all I have of her. I've no idea if they are real gold, but very delicate and pretty. Matched all this with a navy and red tartan scarf my daughter left at our house for the charity shop - knew she wouldn't mind.

EssexHebridean

Rudolph earrings for me today - the final set I'd not yet worn from the christmas multipack! 

The conversation about what jewellery we wear, and when, is interesting. I would never bother putting any on beyond my usual rings and occasionally my favourite chain with the little cowrie shell pendant at weekends, and that's not likely to change. I often find necklaces in particular a bit annoying - and bracelets drive me mad more often than not (I have small wrists and so tend to find they spend too much time hanging out around the top of my hand!) so although I'd cheerfully wear bits and pieces if going out, or even to work as I have been, I'd not go out of my way to put anything much on in "my own time" if you know what I mean! 

PennysIntoPounds

Advent jewellery today is a green glass pendant that's very pretty and I never wear because it doesn't have its own chain- it was of course the work of seconds to just put it on another chain! 

Blackcats

Coppery coloured square shape drop earrings today.  I remember buying these on impulse at Oliver Bonas at Reading Station on my way home from a work meeting.  I didn't need them but my train was delayed so I had a mooch round the shop ... you can guess the rest! 

badmemory

Well yesterday was a green bracelet from a "mine" in North Wales a few years ago bought for me by a "friend".  Todays is a gold bracelet, well it has a safety chain so it must be gold right, bought for me for my birthday over 50 years ago.  Yes you guessed it, by the boyfriend of the time.  Reading this has made me realise that virtually all my jewellery was bought for me by some man.

KajiKita

Wearing a mid sized red pendant - might be carnellian? It’s picking up the red-maroon in the top I am wearing today. Had this pendant for a while but never really wear it 😊
Paired with the moss agate earrings I wore yesterday as they have a touch of red in as well.

KK