{"id":3392,"date":"2011-09-11T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2011-09-11T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christiebeaulac.com\/?p=3392"},"modified":"2011-09-11T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2011-09-11T00:00:00","slug":"to-me-from-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thelooksee.com\/to-me-from-me\/","title":{"rendered":"To me, from me."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well tomorrow is my birthday. This has been an especially rough year, hence the sparse posts, but it&#8217;s only getting better. Anyway, I found this ring on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.etsy.com\/shop\/magwildwoodscloset\" target=\"_blank\" onclick=\"javascript:urchinTracker('\/outbound\/www.etsy.com\/shop\/magwildwoodscloset');\">Etsy<\/a> and found myself thinking about it way too much&#8230; and then I bought it as a birthday present for myself. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.etsy.com\/shop\/magwildwoodscloset\" target=\"_blank\" onclick=\"javascript:urchinTracker('\/outbound\/www.etsy.com\/shop\/magwildwoodscloset');\">This seller<\/a> is so nice, by the way! I thought it&#8217;d be a nice way to celebrate another year of life, despite the fact that it&#8217;s a mourning ring.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a Civil War era mourning ring that is etched with a little daisy chain and zig-zag border on a round yellow gold disk mounted to the rose gold band. I really love how sweet and simple it is- and I like the way it looks with my signet ring (which I never take off). There is a place in back where a lock of hair would have been kept behind a protective covering, but which has worn away with time.\u00a0 I&#8217;ve been obsessed with antique mourning jewelry for a very long time, but this is my first purchase, as most of it is not attainable for me (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.etsy.com\/listing\/80696965\/emotional-memorial-antique-human-hair\" target=\"_blank\" onclick=\"javascript:urchinTracker('\/outbound\/www.etsy.com\/listing\/80696965\/emotional-memorial-antique-human-hair');\">$$$<\/a>!), nor is most of it <a href=\"http:\/\/www.etsy.com\/listing\/81472071\/antique-civil-war-era-buckle-mourning\" target=\"_blank\" onclick=\"javascript:urchinTracker('\/outbound\/www.etsy.com\/listing\/81472071\/antique-civil-war-era-buckle-mourning');\">practical for frequent wear<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thelooksee.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/civilwar_ring_1_copyweb.jpg\" title=\"civilwar_ring_1_copyweb.jpg\" onclick=\"javascript:urchinTracker('\/file\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/civilwar_ring_1_copyweb.jpg');\"><img src=\"http:\/\/thelooksee.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/civilwar_ring_1_copyweb.jpg\" title=\"ring, vintage, civil war, american, jewelry, adornment, etching, mourning, the look see\" alt=\"ring, vintage, civil war, american, jewelry, adornment, etching, mourning, the look see\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thelooksee.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/civilwar_ring_1_webcopy.jpg\" title=\"civilwar_ring_1_webcopy.jpg\" onclick=\"javascript:urchinTracker('\/file\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/civilwar_ring_1_webcopy.jpg');\"><img src=\"http:\/\/thelooksee.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/civilwar_ring_1_webcopy.jpg\" title=\"ring, vintage, civil war, american, jewelry, adornment, etching, mourning, the look see\" alt=\"ring, vintage, civil war, american, jewelry, adornment, etching, mourning, the look see\" \/><br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thelooksee.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/civilwar_ring_back_1webcopy.jpg\" title=\"civilwar_ring_back_1webcopy.jpg\" onclick=\"javascript:urchinTracker('\/file\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/civilwar_ring_back_1webcopy.jpg');\"><img src=\"http:\/\/thelooksee.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/civilwar_ring_back_1webcopy.jpg\" title=\"ring, vintage, civil war, american, jewelry, adornment, etching, mourning, the look see\" alt=\"ring, vintage, civil war, american, jewelry, adornment, etching, mourning, the look see\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well tomorrow is my birthday. This has been an especially rough year, hence the sparse posts, but it&#8217;s only getting better. Anyway, I found this ring on Etsy and found myself thinking about it way too much&#8230; and then I bought it as a birthday present for myself. This seller is so nice, by the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2,5,6,7,23],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelooksee.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3392"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelooksee.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelooksee.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelooksee.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelooksee.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3392"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelooksee.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3392\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelooksee.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3392"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelooksee.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3392"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelooksee.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3392"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}