Gems in Abandon: Tales of the Jewelry Armoire
August 15th, 2006 by Jackie
At some point a couple months ago, I looked around my apartment and felt the world closing in on me.
I hadn’t noticed before, I’d been blind. Everywhere I looked there were pieces of jewelry strewn about: CZ bracelet on TV, pearl earring on nightstand, refrigerator top bedazzled with aquamarine, opal, and amethyst. Garnet glinting off pots and pans, necklaces dangling on nails, hammered into green living room walls. And everywhere I looked there were bowls and vases and small boxes overflowing with gems and jewelry. I was mortified.
‘How long had my place been like this?’ I wondered.
‘Why didn’t anyone say anything?’
Something had to be done!
I remember my first jewelry purchase: a delicate little silver, rose quartz ring. I was 8 years old at the time. I saw it in the mall while shopping with my mother. It was the most beautiful thing I’d ever seen. I had to have it!
I remember slaving away at my lemonade stand for weeks to buy that damn ring, sweating in the heat of the summer, hands sticky with lemon-sugar, the casualties: lemon juice in eyes, lost sale, bad batch. I counted the booty every night, just waiting until I could afford the ring and turn in my badge; get out of the rat race.
When I finally bought my ring, after hours and hours of hard labor, I kept it in a little bowl (my homemade jewelry box). That was then. That was when I was 8. I was a kid, I was stupid then. At my age now though, well, there’s just no excuse for uncomely jewelry-keeping habits.
It came to my mind that I should get a jewelry box of some sort. It didn’t take long for me to realize that a jewelry box just wasn’t going to cut it. I was going to need a jewelry armoire and I wasn’t going to find the one I was looking for at the mall. I was going to have to go online.
Trudging back home with my mall purchases-of-whimsy, I thought hard about the style of armoire I would like, how many ring slots I would need, hooks to hand things on, drawers. Of course I had to allow for new jewelry as well because, well, there is always new jewelry isn’t there. By the time I got home and online, I knew exactly what to look for and I found it.
So if you find yourself looking about your place one day and realize you got gems and jewelry as far as the eye can see, you can’t find the jewelry you’re looking for when you need it, or you’re just losing those precious gems in the vacuum, sink, or unknown depths of your domicile, do what I did. Accessorizing has become so much easier!
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