Day 3:
The box was my mother's, and shortly after she gave it to me I started collecting wooden boxes. Now I have ones from Poland, Italy, random areas around here, etc.
The jewelry was all my grandmother's. I'm still impressed that I've managed to keep up with her costume jewelry. She passed when I was 4, and her costume jewelry was given to my sister and I, along with many of her fancy dresses, as part of our dress-up collection as little girls. Most of the dresses are long gone now, along with the fake mink, the hats, the gloves, and the shoes, but I was able to hold onto much of the jewelry.
The teacup is from a very random trip I took with some friends a few years ago. My friend A. had never been abroad, but had always longed to travel, so my friend Jess and I planned a trip around the world via car (we didn't tell A this, we just told her we were kidnapping her for her birthday). We went to London, Glasgow, Port Royal, Milan, Brazil, Memphis, and Paris (along with a few other stops), and we had props for each place so we could take a theme picture. This whole trip took place in a mere two and a half days, so some places had us simply jumping out of the car, snapping a picture, and jumping back in to head to our next destination. All in all, it was a wonderfully crazy trip. The teacups were the most special of the props, as before we left we stopped at Goodwill and each chose a mismatched cup and saucer (A. still having no clue where we were going or what we were doing). They were our props for London.
Before I chose this shot, I had thought of doing another shot involving my Nana's jewelry, so here's that shot:
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