I'm swimming in '70s nostalgia at the moment, fueled in part by the fact that my parents have been helping my grandmother, who is downsizing from her 3+ bedroom home of nearly 40 years to a 1-2 bedroom apartment. The clean-out effort has resulted in many treasures being sent home with her grandchildren. I have inherited some boxes of recipe cards, which I mean to sift through soon. Among the other items which have joined my home are several pieces of costume jewelry, which seem classically '60s and '70s to me. I think these pieces fit really nicely with current retro trends. My favorites:
This owl called to me - hooted to me? - from the box of cast-off jewelry my mother brought home. His body parts are articulated so that he shimmies a bit. I am not normally a big-pendant girl - he measures about 5" tall - but I think I can learn to accessorize more boldly. He fits in with my current (and trend-timely) love of bird paraphanalia. My Etsy favorites list is heavily populated with bird art. And speaking of Etsy, I was browsing through recently-listed items today and found this exact owl! No kidding. Further searching revealed at least two like mine, and one more that had some additional enamel embellishments. I wonder what his story is, where my grandmother found him, and who else had one like him.
I also wonder who out there has one of these daisy chains. Each flower has a rhinestone center, dainty and quirky and vintage and somehow also very modern. I think this one will see quite a bit of action this summer. There are matching, screw-back earrings. I will see what I can do with them.
