Coming Out!

It's not an infatuation, it's real, pure one-sided, material love. When you work for ShangBy.com and you're at the pearl markets every day putting a stop to a habit that has long been out-of-control is obviously and conspicuously difficult. Why fight it when you can embrace it. Bored with pretending, I'm leaping proudly out of my jewelry box and announcing to the online universe - My name is Claire and I am a jewelry addict! Welcome to my homage to jewels! 

It's 10:30am, and armed with coffee I'm off to the jewelry markets. I head into jewelry stores jammed with stones and pearls and unconsciously start surveying the selection - sorting out the old from the new, the lovelovelove from the just okay. The turn over in the markets is so high that most days I found something new that I adore. The week so far - 

Monday - watched MissJ make a baroque "fireball"  seawater pearl and tourmaline necklace and went crazy for the fireballs which look like dramatic dollops of lustrous white pearl tears. Attracted to the quirky, the shape of these pearls says wild, free and high end cool without the stuffy after taste. Thinking earrings - single dropping pearls (large size) with 14K gold hook settings. 

Tuesday - wandered into a store and saw bright blocks of color in my peripheral vision. I tried half-heartedly to avoid turning to see what was there. Ten chunky solid stone rings in different colors of agate, turquoise, onyx and coral started to beg me to try them on. Most of them were too big :( but fabulous all the same. It's for the best, let the bank account recover and then presto, the smaller sizes will have been ordered into the store. Very sensible result.

Riding my little bike off to my cobbler who's made me some silver Mary-Janes. Can't wait to see how they've turned out. Full report with photos to come tomorrow including a look at designs of mine I've had created in the past couple of weeks and design plans for the future.   

Mucho love and jewels,

XClaire