Over years, tastes change, and nowhere shows that more than in my jewellery collection!
I’ve gathered together my favourite pieces from both sides of my jewellery style coin so that you can spot something you like, no matter what your taste. Let me know if you’ve changed your collection growing up and if there are any pieces you can’t bare part from.
Gold hoop earrings – Me & Zena / Silver circle ring – Magpie on the Run / Silver cross ring – Accessorize
Something curious has happened to my jewellery collection.
Where once I had overflowing boxes of beads, bows and bangles in every colour under the sun, I now have half the number of boxes with far finer chains and many more metals than 20 year old Lucy would ever have been interested in.
Giant gold triangle necklace – Oh My Clumsy Heart
Bar earrings – ASOS / Watch – Caravelle / Drop earrings – H&M
It struck me, a little while back, that I was no longer wearing rings on a daily basis, I’d forgotten to put on a necklace and I had but gold hoops in my ears.
Door knocker earrings sat waiting for a special occasion and my statement necklaces left for magpies. I became more drawn to strings with various ‘natural’ materials in geometric shapes (Oh My Clumsy Heart and Wolf and Moon are indies I’m into atm) that dangled off the end than in a piece of plastic in the shape of a food stuff. For someone famed as a plastic fanatic and colour obsessee, what the hell had happened?!
Acrylic, brass and wood necklace – Wolf & Moon
Whilst it may be in part the fact that fashion has moved away from the stuff-as-much-as-you-can-in-one-necklace days to Scandinavian-inspired minimalism, I fear it may be a reason more innate.
Like a good cheese, I can conclude that I have matured and I now exude a finer flavour, one of better taste and of higher price. I can now see that wearing every type of statement jewellery all at once isn’t very easy on the eye. I also know that £4 rings are likely to turn your finger green. And that ain’t pretty.
Then there’s the point of just not giving a ****. In a world of revolving weeks where making it out of the door fully dressed each morning is a triumph, I have little time for adornment. At school, college, uni and the first few years of work, I was out for making an impression. I was a spring chicken with all the energy to consider wild and wonderful outfit accessories but now, who really cares?
Posy necklace – Tatty Devine
Monstera leaf necklace – I love Crafty / Cactus necklace – Aubergine Fox / Earrings – Johnnie Loves Rosie
Now don’t worry, I haven’t totally gone to the dogs. It’s the nostalgia speaking. My heart still flutters when I see a great laser-cut necklace in Tatty Devine and I am LOVING all these brilliant hand painted bead necklaces coming out of Australia (Etsy’s Lucie Ellen does these in the UK) but I will wear them on their own, pride of place with a simple top underneath. Wearing a brilliantly garish print? I’ll grab the gold strands.
Acrylic and wood necklace – Boden / Painted geometric bead necklace – Kodes / Hand painted bead necklace – Lucie Ellen
Hello acrylic necklace – Rock Cakes
So there we go, I’m balancing. I’m growing up and refining. I might hold on to my cheese necklace though, just as a memento.
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