I got this ring today at the thrift store. It's 10k, and it was only $28. Besides that, I am an absolute lunatic for antique jewelry. I can't actually afford antique jewelry, but I love it anyway. I get lucky every now and then at the thrift store.
(I got my sapphire band at the thrift store too. I had wanted one since we were married to go with my wedding set. I perused Ebay, looked at jewelry stores and decided that I would never be able to afford a band of sapphires. Last year, I was at the Alabaster Galleria, and saw a band of sapphires. It was too big and set in yellow gold, but they were real and it cost $60. I was beside myself. I love the thrift...)
Anyway, I spotted this ring at the thrift, and I just fell in love with it. I reminded me of my great grandmother. It was only $28, and I had a secret stash, so it was perfect. On the way home, I realized that I am truly an antique.
I took this http://www.magatsu.net/maritaltest/index.php quiz this morning. I scored a 99. Um, 1930's here I come.
I've always wanted to live in a different era. The roaring 20's. Oh me. I think I was the only one in honor's English that flew through Hemingway. And read more than they were supposed to. Or the 40's. Oh the fashion. I love the 50's with the perfectly dressed housewives who vacuumed in their high heels. They played bridge and worried about ring around the collar. That's about as far as I'd want to go. As much as I am still a little bit of a hippie, the 60's and 70's don't do a lot for me.
I'm an antique at heart. So that's why my sweet little ring just made me a happy camper today. I look at it and think that it's okay to be antiquated. My role as a wife and a mother were created by God, and He knows best. (Father knows best, you know...) I love that He created these sweet roles for women to embrace, knowing that it provided them with fulfillment and peace.
I've noticed so much lately a disdain for those roles. As a result, women are trying to be women and men, and are suffering because of it. It's just not how God created the family to be, and it makes me sad to see the further breakdown of the family unit in this country.
Ah well, never mind all that. My little ring reminds me that it's okay to love just being a wife and a mom. And it's okay to be a throw back to simpler times. That's where my heart is. Those simple times. Those antique times.
(I got my sapphire band at the thrift store too. I had wanted one since we were married to go with my wedding set. I perused Ebay, looked at jewelry stores and decided that I would never be able to afford a band of sapphires. Last year, I was at the Alabaster Galleria, and saw a band of sapphires. It was too big and set in yellow gold, but they were real and it cost $60. I was beside myself. I love the thrift...)
Anyway, I spotted this ring at the thrift, and I just fell in love with it. I reminded me of my great grandmother. It was only $28, and I had a secret stash, so it was perfect. On the way home, I realized that I am truly an antique.
I took this http://www.magatsu.net/maritaltest/index.php quiz this morning. I scored a 99. Um, 1930's here I come.
I've always wanted to live in a different era. The roaring 20's. Oh me. I think I was the only one in honor's English that flew through Hemingway. And read more than they were supposed to. Or the 40's. Oh the fashion. I love the 50's with the perfectly dressed housewives who vacuumed in their high heels. They played bridge and worried about ring around the collar. That's about as far as I'd want to go. As much as I am still a little bit of a hippie, the 60's and 70's don't do a lot for me.
I'm an antique at heart. So that's why my sweet little ring just made me a happy camper today. I look at it and think that it's okay to be antiquated. My role as a wife and a mother were created by God, and He knows best. (Father knows best, you know...) I love that He created these sweet roles for women to embrace, knowing that it provided them with fulfillment and peace.
I've noticed so much lately a disdain for those roles. As a result, women are trying to be women and men, and are suffering because of it. It's just not how God created the family to be, and it makes me sad to see the further breakdown of the family unit in this country.
Ah well, never mind all that. My little ring reminds me that it's okay to love just being a wife and a mom. And it's okay to be a throw back to simpler times. That's where my heart is. Those simple times. Those antique times.
3 comments:
dear iris, you are truly quite the antique! from your thrift finds to your love of old jewelry~you are a girl after my own heart.
i'm sure if we had lived in the 40's together, we would have taken a trolley ride to downtown b'ham & seen a movie!
the heart ring is amazing! i love it~it is so you.
i'll have to try the quiz soon...
what a sweet message in your post! i ditto you.
& (don't roll your eyes, jenn v) i also agree about Fatherly Love~He knows you best of all, so what a sweet gift He gave you.
That ring is amazing. I have never seen it!! I love you, antique-y friend.
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