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Posted on November 4, 2009 by Geano Su | Posted under Jewelry
Jewelry of My Great-Grandmother
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mittens and cushions and above all she collected jewelry, from fancy rings to cheap jewelry, enormous piles of wholesale jewelry that slid out of bags and across floors and out of cabinets. Her house was like a museum of jewelry fashions from the past forty years; I used to explore, run my fingers through them in shock and wonder. When I was a young thing, my great grandmother was ill, as great grandmothers unsurprisingly are. Every weekend we would visit her, like clockwork, take her wrinkled hands and her quiet humming out to dessert and a game of cards, clean her condo and shove the mess of wholesale jewelry into smaller piles. One month she didn't answer the knock on the door and I understood, even then, what had happened. I waited in the car and hummed Amazing Grace to myself while the doctors came to remove the great-grandmother. She was ninety-six:96 years old and she had lived lonely for 20 years in the home she grew up in, unrelentingly independent, completely unwilling to move to a nursing home. They went through her possessions, weeks later, argued over the lace fabrics and sorted through the unfortunate pictures and cheap sculptures, made large stacks of things too tasteless to keep, meant to be given to someone, anyone who might like a bag of dented wax apples with their red skins scraping away to reveal cool greyish flesh. They gave me a pile of her wholesale jewelry to keep my small hands out of trouble; there was a rope of peach peeling artificial pearls, enormous enough to wrap around my waist twice, and a junky gold ring with a enormous fuscia stone the size of a grape, the setting molded to look like miniature sphinxes, unique and somewhat chipped. There was a filigree pin and a plastic bracelet and, nestled at the bottom of the box with a cheap goldtone chain looped through it, a diamond wedding ring. It sparkled like a firework before they stole it away from me and handed me a artificial banana to love instead. About The Author: Anna Su has been in the wholesale business since 2001. She became one of the largestwholesale jewelry importers in China. |
Tags: WHOLESALE JEWELRY, WHOLESALE JEWELLERY, WHOLESALE BEADS, WHOLESALE RINGS, WHOLESALE FASHION JEWELRY, WHOLESALE SILVER JEWELRY, WHOLESALE COSTUME JEW
