Worn abroad

(I can't remember where I ganked the screen shot from but it isn't mine!)

One of the benefits of having such a meticulously crafty mother is that because I am the only daughter, I am often her beneficiary.  

When my mother first started making earrings, I would draw designs for her on paper.  She would then put them together with her usual trim neatness and care and voila!  A piece of jewellery no one else could possibly own.  

Recently, my parents have been devouring the second season of Downton Abbey and each time I sit with them, I'm floored by the costumes and witty writing.  Finally, I told my mother that I was going to start calling them Mama and Papa and getting a maid to dress me for dinner. 

"Really," I said in my poshest accent, swanning around the coffee table as if I were a dowager, "I don't see why we can't come down in gowns if the Granthams could do it before there was proper sanitation."

My parents chuckled, but when I pointed at the gorgeous jewellery that the Grantham girls wore to match, my mother sat bolt upright and really took notice.  I could see her mind whirring and clicking and I knew I was in luck.

Because see those amazing jet black earrings Sybil is wearing in the picture above?

I now have a pair of my very own.