April 2021 - alcoveshome

I inherited my mom’s jewelry boxes a few years ago. These jewelry boxes contained a hodgepodge of jewelry and other trinkets. Each of these pieces are now vintage and represent a special slice of time. I decided never to buy jewelry again. I am in the process of documenting this collection of jewlery and call it Eleventeen Jewelry. I intend to wear many of the pieces. I love vintage jewelry.

Daisy clip-on earrings–one poor daisy is missing its rhinestone center

Some of these now vintage pieces had belonged to my grandma, my great grandma, and even great aunts. Small items passed down through generations. None of it is of high monetary value, but it is all of high nostalgia value.

As a hobby I started documenting each piece of jewelry and called my project Eleventeen Jewelry. Eleventeen was the secret code word I used with my kids when they were little. We adopted this word from one of my kids who always used to say “eleventeen” when learning to count to 20. When I was trying to think of a name for my Instagram account for the jewelry collection, the word Eleventeen just popped in my head and stuck.

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This banana bread is easy to make by using your over-ripe bananas and common ingredients in your kitchen. It is the simplest and best old fashioned banana bread recipe I have tried. It turns out moister and denser and with more banana taste than making it from a boxed mix. Plus, this banana bread gets that slight banana crispiness just on the edge of the crust that takes the whole loaf to the next level. The top of the loaf gets banana-y, moist, and slightly crispy all at the same time. It’s hard to explain. You’ll just have to taste it. This recipe is from my grandma. Our family has been eating this for almost 100 years! I consider this banana bread “retro comfort food.”

freshly baked loaf of banana bread on wood cutting board sliced on one end — Simply the best old fashioned banana bread ever

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