Jewellery Tree

I used to store my jewellery in a box which wasn’t the most practical place for them. They would easily get tangled and it was hard to fish out the particular piece I needed without having to pour all of them out.

One day I came across a picture of a branch that was hung up on the wall and bracelets and necklaces were put on it. The whole composition was silver and still, it didn’t come across tacky at all. For a magpie like myself the thought of being able to stare at my whole jewellery collection any time was very inviting.

So I went out in the garden and collected willow twigs to give life to my own jewellery tree. I painted them with 2 layers of coppery acrylic paint and while they were drying I dug out an old pot from our shed and painted it with a very bright blueish acrylic paint. When the twigs have got dry, I placed them in the pot and filled it up with pebbles. I felt lucky that no one questioned me while stealing those from the park…

Then I put my earrings on it and philosophized a bit about the word ‘earring’ and how inaccurate and discriminative it is. Not every earring is a ring and the not-a-ring ones are just as perfect, okay? The inventor of words should figure something out already.