Charmed Life, Jewelry Forever

Wearing jewelry is more personal and imbued with more pleasure and sentiment than anything else we put on our bodies. Humans decorated themselves with beads of shell and bits of bone long before wearing clothing, and the meanings, symbols and reasons behind wearing jewelry still resonate today, more than 100,000 years later. To adorn oneself with jewelry can be a ritualistic act of creating beauty, like painting or composing, on an intimate scale. Jewelry carries love, culture, belief, protection, memory, accomplishment, worth, esteem and so many of the things that drive and connect us in our human existence. Whether knotted, beaded, metal, gemstone, bright, bold, rare, sculptural, discreet, expensive, costume, or purely sentimental, we can’t get enough of jewelry. Never have, never will.