All things beautiful: Beautiful Vintage Brooches - Life is made up of a few moments all strung together like pearls. Each moment is a pearl. Joyce Hifler

sábado, 23 de janeiro de 2021

Beautiful Vintage Brooches - Life is made up of a few moments all strung together like pearls. Each moment is a pearl. Joyce Hifler

Diamond, pearl and gold brooch, France, circa 19th century.

An early 20th century pearl and diamond brooch. The baroque pearl set within a surround of diamond and seed pearl swags and laurels in platinum and gold

Baroque pearls are pearls with an irregular non-spherical shape. Shapes can range from minor aberrations to distinctly ovoid, curved, pinch, or lumpy shapes.

A Mabe pearl is a composite cultured blister pearl, a large half pearl of glorious nacre that is popularly used for making pearl pendants

BAROQUE PEARL, PLIQUE-À-JOUR ENAMEL AND DIAMOND BROOCH, MARCUS & CO., CIRCA 1900

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1) Never apologize for acting on your instincts.
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3) Never apologize for being smart.
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Every one of us casts a shadow.

There hangs about us, a sort of a strange, indefinable something, which we call personal influence--that has its effect on every other life on which it falls. It goes with us wherever we go. It is not something we can have when we want to have it--and then lay aside when we will, as we lay aside a garment. It is something that always pours out from our lives . . . as light from a lamp, as heat from flame, as perfume from a flower.

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~J. R. Miller, "The Shadows We Cast"