I Love Mother Jewelry
The two pieces that I have are fairly typical ‘mother jewelry’, but, I love them both. The first one I have is a necklace that my brother and his wife bought me when my youngest was only about a month old. And we all knew that I was done having children – not that more couldn’t have been added, were that not the case, but, anyway… Right, so I had my two boys and my girl. They are September, September, and November. So that’s two blues and an orange. (Not so good with birthstones, can you tell?)
Anyway, it’s a necklace with three cute little children on it and they each have their birthstones on their clothes. They are so adorable. One of them, I think the little girl, is missing a stone. They each have three stones, I believe. (I actually still have it put up from when I went out of town. Do you put your jewelry up when you go out of town? But I digress…) I really want to get that stone replaced, because, it’s one of my favorite necklaces!
Now, I said that my jewelry is ‘fairly’ typical, because my second piece seems to be part of the new wave of mother jewelry that came about not too long ago. It’s a mother’s ring. There are pieces that are far more sophisticated, but, this ring seems to me to be the first wave of people and jewelers getting a little bit ‘away from’ the “mommy jewelry” craze. But like I said, I like them all, so it’s all good. This ring is very pretty and I was very surprised when it was given to me. My parents, my brothers and their wives chipped in together and bought it for me, maybe about six years ago. It’s really pretty and it even has me on it, too. I thought that was a sweet touch.
I will try to get some pictures of my necklace and my ring so that I can show them to you here. I know they will be hard to photograph, but, I learned a neat photography trick that I will try and it will be a fun experiment!
It’s interesting to hear the variation of opinions on mother jewelry from moms and I found a good sampling of ideas here on this MomsLikeMe.com Beauty and Fashion message board thread. I even learned that some moms get what they call a ‘pushing prize’ or a ‘push prize’ – for working so hard to get that baby born! I’ve seen this referenced a few times now. Interesting.
Also interesting, is that it seems the mother’s jewelry tradition began with Helzberg’s Jewelers. If you look up Mother’s ring on Wikipedia, it links to a book by one of the Helzberg’s and he talks about when the tradition for mother jewelry got started – by their company. I wonder if there was anything at all like it prior to that.
Well, whoever started it, I’m so glad they did, because, it’s some of my very favorite jewelry!
I have SO. MUCH. TROUBLE. shopping there. I know, crazy, right? It is totally one of my fave online stores! LOL Well, I just like SO MUCH of their stuff that I have a hard time deciding what exactly to order! So I thought I’d show you a few cute things that I didn’t buy this time. 
