As we converse’s featured jewelry collector is Mia of Fare Properly Large Jewelry. She relies out of Nashville, TN – equivalent to me! Her personal assortment is stuffed with extraordinarily beautiful objects and lots of sparkle. Let’s hear additional about it and the best way it received right here to be:
“I’ve been drawn to jewelry since I was a toddler (my family owned and operated a pleasant jewelry retailer in Hawaii for over 25 years) and I was gifted some gold objects, nevertheless I didn’t severely collect good jewelry until spherical 4 years previously. Some classic motifs in jewelry that I’m really drawn to is like quite a lot of imagery that I moreover collect spherical the house/ in numerous sides of my life. I really feel love tokens are beautiful, figured animals, celestial Victorian objects like crescents and stars, the question marks, one thing enjoying related, and as well as good luck charms like horseshoes and clovers.”
“I really feel one thing that consumes most of your waking concepts might be thought-about a passion! I merely really benefit from coping with jewelry, sporting it, selling it, and sourcing it. And naturally typically even designing it. I merely type of view it as miniature sculptures fabricated from really invaluable supplies. It’s always so spectacular to me the extent of merely how lots aspect you’re going to get so terribly small!”
“I am going to protect most of my sources secret, as I am moreover a vendor, BUT I can say that as far as areas go, the northeast has always been my favorite provide for ANY antiques and traditional even previous jewelry. For classic jewelry I purchase for myself, I like to help my mates and their small corporations. So I actually like buying with Elizabeth at @themoonstoned for personal objects, I’ve moreover sourced some very good classic rings from @knoxjewels as properly. @chelseagirlnyc has insanely good rings. The itemizing is intensive of web websites and instagrams with a ravishing classic alternative.”
“I really feel the piece that started all of it was actually current in Franklin, TN all through a go to proper right here from Honolulu in spherical 2006. It was a traditional sterling silver and malachite pendant with seed pearls, on a silver rope chain, and it really sparked one factor in me… lots so that I began making/ assembling jewelry as an adolescent once more in Hawaii spherical 2006-2007 and had just some trunk reveals (none of it was good jewelry, merely semi worthwhile stones and quite a lot of gold crammed objects). I took a number of bench programs specializing in silver moreover. I steadily on account of more and more interested by jewelry and that type of started my assortment. Lastly I traded up, all my sterling change into my assortment of gold over time.”
“My most sentimental piece is my grandmother’s watch (my mom has an equivalent one) that I inherited when my grandmother handed away.”