What Would Venus Wear? Earrings!

Each new Beach Season I look forward to adding at least one new earring to my collection.

You would think this would be easy..... but I have certain requirements.  The earring must say, "Summer", and signal my boho-glam beach-combing-ethic. 

 As well I need a gold wire earring ( lever-back preferred ) which is easy and light-enough to wear for the travel, hold up to a weekend of activities, and be light-hearted and fun-enough for evening wear.

 The earring must be compelling in beauty but simple in concept.  Anything too glitzed-out just looks like too much make-up piled on under bad lighting.

I'm not looking for anything too expensive in case it is lost to ocean and sand, or would not hold up to the effects of such.

My choices seem to have the color white as a threading theme.  White jade, fresh water pearl, mother-of pearl, rock crystal all speak to that thrill of finding the just found conch shell!  The white color plays nicely off my Summer tan and seem to make my look a bit more crisp even if I'm melting from the humidity.

Venus says: go find your beauty!  Go find your Summer earrings!

Conquest Beach Outing

I must have my daily beach walk!  Beach-combing calls me!

Since last Summer, I am now a "Birder"!  Newbie- Birder!  Birds call me!

Conquest Beach was the destination....... just a few miles past Dewey Beach.  Despite the bleary rainy weather...... a nice time!

It was half-way between low and high tide....... I found 3-4 groups of 15-20 each of Sanderlings in their pre-breeding plumage, obsessively feeding.

A Laughing Gull dove and came up with a beautiful blue crab.  Sushi time!

Two sets of Willets did their serene-watch-the-ocean-thing.

One Osprey flew about the dunes picking up and letting go nest material.

A lovely conch was my beach combing cache of the day.

If I had not counted the dune-fence openings....... I would not have found my way back to my vehicle.  There were no "markers" to show me how far I walked and the same on the return!

Beach & Jewelry: What would Venus Wear?

Why does walking along the beach bring up thoughts of one's own jewelry style?

Venus, who was born from the froth of the ocean, must have emerged with necklace strands of pearls!

Beach-combing is the very activity of reaching for beauty! Adornment... making the object one's own is the next compulsion.

Thus: what is The Perfect Necklace to wear at the beach! 

WHAT WOULD VENUS WEAR in Dewey Beach :-)

It's got to be natural and of organic form and lines.

Venus and us Girls Just Want to Have Fun: so the necklace needs to be lighthearted and fun.  Add in a dose of clever too!

Considering the hot humid weather....needs to be comfortable and hold up to sweat and sea salt.

My daily pick is a sterling silver oxidized flower pendant, of idealized form, with a citrine center hung on a black leather cord.  The cord holds up to the beach life.

Night life.. what to wear?!  All out glitzy just looks awful and out of place.....not "beach-comby".  Just enough glamour is perfect...a necklace of simple forms and just enough flash to signal your Venus style.

My nightly pick ranges from a chain-and-enamel flower belt which I'll hang around my neck to my new found enameled and jointed fish dangling with pearls and peridot from a 30 inch light weight gold chain.  

Next time I'll muse on earrings and bracelets!

The pendant picture is by James Avery!  I LOVE their jewelry!!!!!