Thursday 22 December 2011

A Vintage Family Heirloom

If you've been reading my blog since the beginning, you'll know that I've always had a thing for dainty vintage inspired jewellery boutiques, like DollyBowBow or JunkJewels 
At a family get together over the weekend, in celebration of my Mums birthday, we were talking about past relatives and my Mum mentioned that my Dads mother had left me a locket when she died.  I was quite shocked that I hadn't heard about this before but also quite excited that I'd be getting a Family heirloom, to pass onto my daughter one day. 


To me, an heirloom is better than being left money as it's a part of my Nan to keep forever and cherish.  I know that if I'd been given money, it would have been wasted on things that in a few years would have no meaning whatsoever.  The locket is real gold, although we aren't sure of how many carats.  It features an embellishment of a bird and some flowers, hanging from an 18inch (there abouts) chain.  


I popped the locket into some gold jewellery cleaner which certainly brightened it up, but on the inside I found no pictures.  I'd like to put a couple of pictures inside, maybe of both my Nan's but I'm not entirely sure yet.  For now I'm happy that I have a piece of my late Nan to cherish.  

Have you been given any family heirlooms in the past? 






4 comments:

  1. oh this is lovely... when my nan died I was meant to be given her ring and sovereign necklace, sadly my grandad is a **** and sold it all :( i've been left totally gutted as I have nothing that was part of her. Treasure this <3

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  2. That's such a shame! My mums, mum who is still alive - her husband wasn't very nice, so I've been told. Maybe it's the generation they are from? xx

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  3. That is really lovely! Things like that are so precious and personal, its so nice x

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  4. I'm really pleased with it, thanks for commenting hun! x

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