Thursday, January 6, 2011



Buried Treasure........




Last week my beautiful friend Brenda asked me if I would like to look at her broken rhinestone jewelry she had buried somewhere in a tub. After I picked my jaw up off the ground I said yes!


I went to the Howard Rawlings Antique Mall in Mt. Juliet,Tn. where she has several cases of gorgeous rhinestone jewelry.


I was speechless when I saw all the colors of rhinestones that were in that tub. As I searched through that buried treasure, I found some great beauties for sure. The price was right so I went home with a box full.


If you have a minute, here are some photos of the colors and bling only vintage rhinestones have.....







I found this vintage jewelry box for now to keep this beautiful treasure of clear rhinestones. I`m on the lookout for a pink jewelry box. These make me so happy............







A beautiful Victorian box holds the blue baubles and broaches..........













Another vintage soap box works great to store the black and clear rhinestones.......
















A vintage powder box is perfect for my favorite color PINK rhinestones...........
























A vintage hinged top french labeled can is perfect for the rubies and emeralds. (red and green rhinestones in the real world).........

























A vintage french pharmacy box is perfect for bits and baubles. I love ballerina pins..........



























I saved this vintage blue tin for the darker rhinestones of orange and yellow.......
















A girl has to have a sweet Victorian chatelaine purse for her diamonds and pearls!.........


I enjoyed sharing my treasures with you. I`ll be putting some necklaces and bracelets in my etsy shop soon.
What a blessing to have a friend like Brenda.
One (wo)man`s junk is another (wo)man`s treasure....Now, I`m off to hunt for more buried treasure~

4 comments:

  1. Oh Kim.....you lucky girl!! What wonderful treasures! I adore vintage rhinestone jewelry. I don't have much of it but the few pieces I do have I am hoarding!

    xoxo

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  2. KIM Good Lord!! That is awesome!! I would love to be able to travel back in time when i hold vintage jewels, and see who it was that brought them, where they brought them from....what did they wear them with and what became of the women that wore them. You have an amazing collection there!

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  3. AHHH!!! I'm sitting here green with envy. Good thing I look good in green! HAHAHAHA!

    Jill

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  4. I just recently ran across your blog and was reading some of your older posts when saw this one. Wow - what a treasure trove. That is my kind of "eye candy". :D

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