What's in My Jewelry Box

So, generally, I'm pretty picky when it comes to jewelry.  I'm not into diamonds or bling much, and for awhile whenever I hit up my local F21, all I kept seeing as a lot of EXCESS stuff.  Do you guys know what I mean?  Just like, a lot, piled on, that it sort of became this irrelevant, artless hoarding of all the random stuff you could possibly put on a necklace.  I imagine it's like fishing, and then pulling up your net to see all of this seaweed and trash and some fish.  That is how I imagine how they brainstormed those necklaces.

Anyway, so this is what I have, necklace-wise.  They're pretty minimalist, for the most part.  For the bone/horn necklace (H&M), I just added on an extra tassel I had lying around for some extra pizzazz, and the crystal necklace lying to the right of it is DIY (I am so proud of that thing, it's crazy), made from a gnarly little rock I found in a little beachfront boutique in Maine and some copper wire. 

I am really keen on the idea of having a few go-to necklace chains and then having a bunch of pendants you can switch out whenever you feel like it.  Thus, the extra pendants I have lying around.  Some are made -- like the blue button + feather pendant, which I made from -- you guessed it -- a button and a feather, just bound together with some hot glue and a wire, as well as the red fan, which is a bead I just twisted some wire into.  The scissor pendant is a button from the local fabric store, and the dream catcher is from an old key chain of my grandmother's.

Which brings me to my next point: pliers.  Pliers!  Such a great tool to have, seriously, to have in your personal DIY kit, along with a hot glue gun (and some bullets, of course), super glue, fabric glue, fabric chalk/pencils, and needle + thread.  With those items you can never go wrong.

stone cold fox

I am a sucker for forest animals on clothes, and ever since Alexa Chung popped up in this rad fox jumpsuit, I have had a little bit of a fox fever!

Although I am not entirely fox-less:

A pair of tres mignon fox earrings from claire's!  I can't believe it either.  I was walking by their window on the way to work, I saw these beauties, and rushed out 2 minutes later with these in my purse.  Bought, of course.  Not shoplifted.  The last time I shoplifted was when I was 4, and it was a little teacup sharpener, and I wasn't very sly about it and got caught later on at home.  The shame was enough to carry me through, 16 years later, without another shoplifting incident.

I also have a fox ring from H&M that came in a set of woodland creature rings (forgive the lousy pic quality):

And in keeping with the fox theme, here's one of my favorite songs from one of my favorite bands, Fleet Foxes (who I am going to see in May, by the way!):

Fleet Foxes - White Winter Hymnal by subpop