Funny Thing Happened While Cleaning the Studio

 

As I’ve been reorganizing the studio, I stumbled across a few pairs of earrings I’ve owned for more than thirty years.

One pair is a simple quartz teardrop on an elongated ear wire. Another features dangling amethyst crystals wrapped in silver. The third and fourth are pairs of earrings I bought at Grateful Dead shows sometime in the

The funny thing is, I still wear them.

Looking at them again, I realized my taste hasn’t changed nearly as much as I thought it had.

Long before Moonstruck Design existed, I was already drawn to sterling silver, genuine stones, natural textures, movement, and pieces with a sense of individuality. The details have evolved. The craftsmanship has certainly evolved. But the foundation was already there. 

Those earrings have outlasted more trend cycles than I can count. Tiny jewelry, giant jewelry, minimalist jewelry, maximalist jewelry, and everything in between.

And somehow, they still feel like me.

Maybe that’s one of the reasons I believe so strongly in creating jewelry that isn’t tied too tightly to a particular moment in fashion. Trends come and go. The pieces we keep reaching for year after year tell a different kind of story.

They become

Of places we’ve been. Concerts we’ve attended. People we’ve loved. Versions of ourselves we used to be. Chapters we didn’t know we were walking through until much

The red jasper earrings aren’t just earrings anymore. They’re a memory from another version of myself. The quartz teardrops carry their own quiet history too.

I often talk about jewelry as something that travels with us through life’s adventures. Looking at these old earrings, I realized I’ve been living that philosophy much longer than I’ve been talking about

Perhaps the best jewelry isn’t the piece that’s trending today.

Perhaps it’s the piece you’ll still be wearing thirty-five years from now.