Thursday, November 19, 2009

Like Hidden Treasures

I’ve never been much into wearing jewelry unless it was unique and special. I recently came across an extraordinary website that sells very unique gifts such as vintage lockets and other jewelry items you just don’t find at your normal jewelry store. When I started looking at all the lovely items they had for sale it reminded me of the jewelry that my mother used to wear. This site was going to get a lot of business from me as it was getting close to Christmas time and I had quite a few special gifts to buy.

I bought my mother two beautiful cameo lockets that looked a great deal like ones she used to have. I remember her wearing them when she would dress up for church or special occasions. I knew she would love these; I put little pictures of me in each of them. Buying gifts for my mother is always difficult because she has just about everything she could ever need or want. I felt this was something she could treasure and then pass on to her granddaughters and keep them in the family as heirlooms.

I bought my daughter three cameo rings to begin her collection. I decided I would start a tradition with her and buy her a new piece of vintage jewelry every year. She enjoys having different types of jewelry to go with her outfits for work and I knew these would be something she would really treasure all the rest of her life.

I bought my father and sons pocket watches that I had engraved. These are not watches they would want to carry every day; these are show pieces to be displayed in a case and I planned to keep adding to their collection every year. They were exquisitely made and I knew they would make excellent collector gifts that they can hold on to and pass down to their kids when the time is right.

I was very excited about getting most of my Christmas shopping done from this one website. No more running around town and facing the mass of people at the mall. I could get my shopping done from the comfort of my desk at home; they even gift wrapped them for free and would ship them to any address I wanted. These are perfect Christmas gifts that I know they will all be thrilled with for many years to come.


Sunday, November 8, 2009

Beautiful Jewelry for Gift-Giving

Since Christmas is just around the corner again and many of us wait until the last minute to go shopping. I usually am a very organized person and pride myself on this until a few years ago when my job increased my hours. I was so busy with work that I did not have time to do any holiday shopping for my friends and family until the last minute. This was a horrible experience looking for certain gifts that were out of stock and driving from store to store in bad weather. I quickly promised myself that this would never happen again.
For the past few years since that miserable shopping experience, I decided to do my shopping online. It was fast and easy. I could now shop for holiday gifts on my lunch break without even having to leave my office.
While shopping for jewelry online one day, I found this great site. The jewelry that was offered was gorgeous and priced right. With the vast variety of wholesale gifts it was hard to choose just one for each person on my holiday shopping list. That has been my only problem holiday shopping online to date.
My four daughters have always loved the look of antique jewelry and I was quite thrilled to see that many of the pieces on the site were inspired by antique jewelry from the Soho area of New York. I knew whatever I chose my four daughters would love to receive as christmas gifts that they would treasure. The only problem was deciding on a lockets or rings.
A co-worker of mine came up with a great idea to solve this problem. She told me to ask each daughter what the other one would like to receive as a gift. This was perfect! Not only would my daughters not be suspicious, I could get them exactly what they wanted. I quickly called each one to find out. My plan worked! They sang like birds telling me which one would like a lockets and which one would like cameo rings.
When each of my daughters opened up their gifts, they were all surprised that I knew exactly what to get them. The jewelry was a big hit and my daughters could not wait to wear them. All of them were so thrilled, that I knew the jewelry would be cherished keepsakes for years to come.