Thanks, I like your thoughts on this! Your approach to shopping for jewelry is completely different from mine. For me, I really want to prioritize jewelry over everything else wardrobe related, because it's the area my collection needs the most work, but every time I try to safe up for a piece, something else catches my eye in the meantime (coat, bag, etc) and the money is spent elsewhere. Which leads to me using my old stuff that I don't like anymore, settling for something not perfect for me and buying too cheap items which look bad after two years. And I don't like that.
So having sert up a separate budget for jewelry works great so far. I'm saving up with a sinking fund right now. I'm not really sure what I want to get first, but high on my list currently are:
- replacement necklaces: one for rosegold pendant which broke on me (I'm not sure yet if I want to go gold or if high quality gold plated silver is good enough. It's a piece that I don't wear daily, so gold plated could be enough) and one for a silver pendant which is slightly too short for my liking.
- a second watch; I love my watch (it's a minimalistic style, small, black & silver, feminine), I just want to change it up every now and then; I haven't decided on the style yet
- small diamond (probably lab diamonds or moissanite) studs: I have a pair of CZ in silver bezel setting that I don't like on me at all so I'm currently looking into yellow and rose gold prong settings. I'm really tempted to not go for a traditional brilliant cut, but another kind of round cut like rose cut or portuguese cut, old european, we'll see...
