A few weeks after Emma was born, I went to the jewelry store and treated myself to a peridot necklace to celebrate her birth. I was totally convinced Charlotte would also be a late August baby and my peridot jewelry would work for both girls…but as you know by now, she held out until September instead! Still it works — I already have a sapphire necklace and earrings courtesy of Jose, who gave both to me in our first few years of dating.
(In case it wasn’t clear, peridot is August’s birthstone and sapphire is September’s.)
In the last few years, there’s been a big decrease in the variety of jewelry that I wear. Jose gave me diamond stud earrings for Christmas in 2011; I wear those 95% of the time and most of my other earrings go unused. I used to wear a lot of different necklaces too, but now I find myself returning to the same half dozen pieces and ignoring the rest.
But I still wanted something to celebrate Charlotte’s arrival, and decided to look for some sort of ring instead. I’ve never been much of a ring person (except for my engagement and wedding rings) but I thought something small and simple to fit my right hand would be nice. I took a look on Etsy and immediately found several options that were exactly what I had in mind! I ended up ordering two of these silver stacking rings — one with a small peridot stone and one with sapphire.
They arrived a little over a week ago and I love them! I don’t know if I’ll wear them every single day, but I’m happy to have this little sparkly reminder of my girls.
I think Elise showed some stackable rings once and it was an aha moment for me. Then I started researching and remembered seeing breastmilk jewelry and found the woman who made them but she had a year wait at that time. Now I think she’s stopped taking orders and sells kits. Not sure if I want to try it on my own.
I just checked James Avery, too, because I thought that might be nice. As my son is also a September baby it would be sapphire as well for me.
I’m like you, simple on the jewelry side of things usually. I had been wearing my Aggie ring up until sometime mid-pregnancy and when I was finally able to put my wedding band on like six months after F was born I decided I wasn’t in touch with my Aggie ring any longer. The mother’s ring idea would be a great replacement for that hand.
Ok, this rambled all too long!
Anyway, thanks for the link and reminding me to look into it once again.
These were so reasonably (only $30 each) that I couldn’t resist. Even if I don’t wear them often, it was worth it.
Love these! I have been wanting to get something to wear to symbolize my boys but haven’t decided on something, this might be it.