Thursday, January 20, 2011

Trinket #20 - Warming Up for Valentine's Day

Whether you think Valentine's Day is a significant cultural celebration of love or just a greedy commercial monster, you've got to admit that it's sort of fun to see all those sappy pink and red hearts for a few weeks each year. Personally, I've never been enamored (terrible pun, I know) with the holiday, but I enjoy seeing my kids get excited about sharing little tokens of love and friendship with their peers.

Today's trinket is a pair of Valentine-inspired earrings for my daughter. She went with me to the bead shop last week and wanted these lovely ruby glass hearts more than anything in the entire store! I traded her a couple of amber leaves for these two from her strand and set them aside for this secret project. They looked a little sad and plain until I introduced them to a couple of strands of silver chain with heart-shaped links. I think they look like they were made for each other - a perfect pair!

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3 comments:

  1. OH Beth, seriously... see now I want to copy those. I'd like to think that will be taken as a form of flattery. I love the color red (and I'm not a red fan-probably because they are ruby) and the heart loops.. and OMG what is that they are hanging on?

    What a wonderful post!

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  2. Pfft! Copy away :)

    The earrings are hanging on an tiny antique soup tureen that belonged to Paul's grandmother. Funny you should ask about it because I was thinking today how odd it was that everyone was getting an intimate look inside my house (and all the junk collected) with each trinket post.

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  3. Beautiful, Beth Brown. Daughter Brown is lucky to have such a creative mom!

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