The assignment for the 3rd of May (I know, I'm a little behind on posting these, but hey, at least I'm taking the photos, right?) was something that I wore that day. My first thought was to photograph my ring, and not just because it's pretty, although that does help... :)

But I thought of this ring because it is special. The last year my family was in India my mom decided to get me something really nice as a souvenir for living there. I had seen this type of jewelry several places and had really wanted some of it, but with the necklaces having a price tag of upwards of $3,000, I decided I would have to scale it down... a LOT. I'm a small person though, so I think that was a good thing.

Anyway, we had seen a couple of rings around, but none of them were exactly right. They were round, instead of a tear drop, the band was a tiny little thing that looked as if it would break with the tiniest mistreatment (and we all know my luck with such delicate things), and so on. So my mom and I together designed a ring that was just right. The result was this ring... sort of...

I had been wearing the ring everyday for over a year (like I said, it was special to me! Of course I was going to wear it everyday!), when, on the way home one day while in Vienna, I looked down and noticed the whole face of the ring was gone. Such a huge bummer! Luckily my mom was still in touch with the jewelers who made it and when they heard what had happened they promised they would replace the ring free of charge if we could just get it back to India.

One must never doubt my mother's connections.

Long story short, a couple of weeks ago I finally got my ring back and it has since resided once again happily on my finger.

So that is the item I wore today.