feeling is mutual-- the blog!

8/25/2006

( via Something old, Something new)The work ofkhW Jewelry is exactly the style of jewelry I was looking for to wear on my wedding day. Ethereal and organic at the same time without looking too prissy.

These were the pieces I had intended on wearing to the wedding. A carnelian chokerand matching earings by a Thai artist named Busarin, featured on Novica.com. After all, if you can't buy from an independent craftswoman... buy freetrade!

yet more from Busarin...

As I said, I intended on wearing these pieces, but Chris had other plans. Right before the picture taking began, Chris gave me a special gift. When Chris and I first began dating he had given me a pearl that he had bought when he was a little boy. The story goes that he asked his parents to buy the pearl so that he could someday give it the girl he was going to marry... because evidently those are the kinds of things that nine year old Chris thought about. While the necklace was beautiful, the setting was in yellow gold so I rarely wore it (gold snob, that's me). As my wedding gift, Chris had the setting rhodium plated and replaced the chain. So what's a girl to do? Forget carnelian and go it sentimental style, that's what.

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