Love tokens. (Jewellery in general)

Member Name: mumsymary

Product:	Jewellery in general
Date:	21/07/04 (119 review reads)
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Jewellery.

I have written this as part of the jewelery write ups. I think I have read everyone elses. and look forward to reading youer contribution Mary

I have an old wooden jewellery box to keep my treasures in. It was my dead grandma’s she would be 102 now. Lets pry inside you are not the first strangers to pry into my jewellery box We were burgled about 5 yrs ago and my jewellery was ransacked. Very little was stolen, that, that was of little monetary or sentimental value. I still have the silver pendants I was given that were my great aunts not that they are worth much; I have an assortment of silver jewellery I prefer silver to gold. My wedding ring is white gold, so is my husbands.

Looking in my jewellery box I found one of my most treasured items …………A wooden Snoopy badge. This was purchased in 1972 .In fact the one I have now is not the original one I had but one my boyfriend bought me after I was distressed when I lost the first one he gave me only after I had had it a short while.
Let me tell you the story of my Snoopy badge.

In 1972 I met and fell in love with the boy of my dreams, long hair, crooked shy smile, he loved wildlife and me. We were head over heels in love noticing no one else spending as much time as we could together. We both liked the Charlie brown cartoons and the character snoopy. One day before he left to go to university he presented me with my snoopy badge, a love token.
Snoopy is cut out of wood he is white with his red collar on and measures about 5 cm tall 3 or 4 cm wide.

I lovingly pinned Snoopy on the collar of my black velvet jacket. I wore my black velvet jacket a lot either with my purple pann velvet maxi skirt or with my Yellow loons (to you young things loons were a trousers with wide leg hems) or I wore my jacket with snoopy on over my black and white checked mini skirt. I was/am tall, slim (not quite so slim these days) with long
brown hair (still long but with a few grey streaks) Boy friend left for uni we saw each other when we could wrote everyday. Me treasuring snoopy keeping snoopy cl

ose to me and hoping this would keep Nick my boyfriend close to me too.

Then one-day horrors of horrors I lost Snoopy. I was distraught, tearful (I was only 18 felt sad dreamt I lost Snoopy and boyfriend. Told Nick how I was upset. He managed to find and buy me another one. I was happy again. Snoopy was like an omen to me this piece of jewellery an omen of our continued love so as long as I have Snoopy badge I know our love is safe and constant.
Ok I no longer wear Snoopy, my black velvet jacket long gone to that place in the sky where treasured clothes go when they die and no longer fit. But I still have snoopy and the memories of the days of first love the intense feelings that went with it.

This Snoopy badge was bought from a boutique in Peterborough probably for under a pound I expect about 50 p many of these badges were around as were badges of the other peanuts character.

A lot of you have written about your wedding rings.
Yes the boyfriend who gave me this Snoopy badge was the boy who on our wedding day gave me a wedding ring I also gave him a wedding ring. I think the snoopy badge meant as much if not more than the wedding ring to me when it was given to me.

I got married in 1975 in a registry office the ring we had chosen together exchanged with love. We has chosen white gold rings with bark effect on they were not expensive about £20 each from a high street jeweller. I wanted him to wear a ring as well as I as not only did I see the ring as a love token but a symbol of ownership, belonging. Yes I wanted to get married but did not want to be his possession and felt a little that wearing his ring was a symbol that I was owned by someone someone’s possession. Yes I did/do love him probably if it were not that my parents would find
out we were living together and be upset if we did not get married and were open about moving in together (I had a separate postal address (a friends)) we might not hav
e got
married but continued to live together. However we wanted children and being married makes life easier.

So we got married Nick wearing a white pair of trousers and a jacket a white tie over his cream with blue flowers shirt. I in the long layered skirt and smock top in a cream fabric with images of a face with a blue hat printed on it that I made using old lace of my aunts to trim it with. The ceremony nerve racking as we stammered our words and placed the rings on each others fingers, his a wide ring simple white gold with a bark effect, mine a white gold slimmer with a dimpled effect quite plain and simple. After the ceremony we celebrated with a meal at the village hall in the village I grew up in, after the meal we all went to my parents house a thatched cottage on the village green where we sat on the lawn and drank tea in the sun received everyone’s good wishes and everyone admired the rings. White gold rings were not common then, we had to be different. We then changed in to our jeans and cheesecloth shirts to begin our married life together we stood by the side of the road and hitched a lift to the start of our honeymoon. Ok we got a lift into London to sleep on the floor (Nick)/ sofa (me) at our friends house on our wedding night before we left to spend our honeymoon hitchhiking around France. Our wedding reception was perfect a real country wedding perfect setting , simple just food a little wine tea conversation oh and we had a pink wedding cake. (as I said I had to be different :-)

Neither of us wear our wedding rings now Husbands too mall difficult to put over his arthritic finger, mine a bit small for my wedding finger so they sit together in a silver ring box. We do not need rings to proclaim our love for each other. Yes they are nice rings a
nd we love each other but they are not so special to us that we feel we need to get them stretched to fit our fingers, one day we might but may be not. So I still have the t
wo treasur
ed pieces of my jewellery collection safe, both given to me with love by the man I love
Thanks for reading sorry if I rambled, xxx Mary

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