this love will never fade away [CoA 1]

song: you are the best thing – artist: ray lamontagne

I’m a little behind with the Week One entry. There’s been a head cold that’s made thinking, let alone writing, a somewhat unpleasant pastime, hence the delay. It finally broke on Sunday. And so here I am.

By this point in my life, I have some pretty ingrained sensibilities when it comes to style preferences, inclusive of jewelry. I like clean lines, simple adornments, with a preference for cool colors, both in metal and stones (and wardrobe tones). I don’t wear much jewelry at any one time. I’ve had a few pieces bought specifically for me over the years, but I’ve usually been consulted, in some way, on the matter. I love those pieces (and I still constantly wear the ring my dad got me for my 21st birthday, it’s one of my favorites – even more awesome because all I provided was that I still liked amethyst and what size it should be). That being said, several years ago, my maternal grandmother took to buying me jewelry all on her own. I usually wind up with a new piece every year, either between Christmas or my birthday. This year it was my birthday (Wednesday, the 5th).

She picked up this bracelet while she was out one day because she liked it and she thought of me when she saw it. Which, let’s face it, how sweet is that? The thing is, we have very different tastes when it comes to fashion and jewelry. But something really lovely has happened as I’ve been receiving these pieces of jewelry from her over the years, she’s clued into some aspect of my preferences, even though we haven’t ever lived in the same state or spent more than a week or two together at a time. And, yet, they aren’t entirely the sort of pieces I would buy for myself. Like this bracelet, it has a good deal more of… the whimsy to it than I would ordinarily go for, to the point I likely would’ve passed it by. But it has so grown on me since I opened the box. I adore all of the words on it. They wrap around the whole bracelet. I also really like that all of these gifted pieces of jewelry have this little something that makes them uniquely from my grandmother. They’re like these sweet, shiny hugs I get to wear.

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