ita, your garnet ring sounds gorgeous. I love garnets. I have a garnet necklace that I bought in Florence that I love.

I don't like most smelly candles, but I do like Pacifica candles. Mmm. Burning Zanzibar Cinnamon Almond right now. My fave is their Mexican Chocolate.

I have a hematite ring as a toe ring and am shocked it hasn't broken yet. And I've been wearing it for years. Seven of them, in fact.

I don't really wear jewelry-- I wear scarves and a of of other color, and I think jewelry might be Too Much. ANd I tend to like cheap jewelry-- sterling silver, onyx, marcasite and rhinestones. I do still miss my grandma's onyx ring, which actually was torn off my finger when I worked in a grocery store and was dumping a giant barrel of returned pop cans into an even more giant container. And then it was in a giant container of pop cans, never to be found.

My fave is their Mexican Chocolate.

Ummm. I don't think I could deal with that. My sister gave me a pumpkin pie or somesuch candle a few years ago, and it took me weeks to figure out why I was so hungry all the time.

I wear earrings, always. And my rings and a watch. I have a ton of necklaces I don't wear, but wish I would but that requires more thought than I am able to put together. Besides, I'm weird about stuff resting on my neck (I can't wear normal tshirts, and turtlenecks are a necessary evil only when it is bloody cold), so it can be really irritating sometimes.

I have a ton of garnet jewelry, as befits a January baby. One of my favourites that I don't wear much is a garnet cord. It's just a long strand of small garnet beads, 60+ inches long, with antiqued silver (there might be a trend here) spacers. Doesn't fasten or anything. I just loop it around and pay attention to it all night.

In fact, I think most of my garnet jewelry is with antiqued silver, now that I think about it. I'm boring and/or easy to shop for.

Another black stone I like, that my mother introduced me to when I told her "black and silver jewelry for Christmas, please" was marcasite. I don't usually do the faceted stuff, but I love the really tiny light effects this stone has. It almost looks like super-antiqued silver in some settings. She got me some lovely stuff. She has a really good eye. My sister and I tend to fight Christmas mornings over who gets what.

See, I always have either a turtleneck or a scarf, no matter how hot the weather. I have no first chin and a large second chin. This makes necklaces impractical.

I wear necklaces probably a couple or three days a week. Never earrings, very occasionally rings and bracelets. If I had more rings I like I'd probably wear them more, but right now I've got my mom's engagement ring (white gold with a sapphire and a diamond) and some cheapy glass ones from World Market or somewhere.

Work party is tomorrow. They want us to dress up, but since I'm not going home to change and taking a cab back downtown, I don't know what I'm going to do. Walk around the party in my very unsexy snow boots, I guess?

before life with mac, I was in a phase of changing jewelry every 2-3 days and I loved coordinating necklaces and earrings and rings and sometimes broaches. Now it is all packed away because of the bugs. kinda can't wait to get it all back next fall and hopefully my life will be at a place where I can manage it again.