{"id":13000,"date":"2018-06-26T22:28:26","date_gmt":"2018-06-27T02:28:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kimberlypearl.co\/blog\/?p=13000"},"modified":"2021-07-16T20:38:01","modified_gmt":"2021-07-17T03:38:01","slug":"the-last-line-delicious-delectable-diamonds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kimberlypearl.co\/blog\/the-last-line-delicious-delectable-diamonds\/","title":{"rendered":"The Last Line: Delicious, Delectable Diamonds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"13002\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/kimberlypearl.co\/blog\/the-last-line-delicious-delectable-diamonds\/a3e32de4-4eff-40b9-acc7-d932de121716\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/kimberlypearl.co\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/A3E32DE4-4EFF-40B9-ACC7-D932DE121716.jpg?fit=2000%2C1500&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"2000,1500\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" 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840px) 100vw, 840px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-13001\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">L-R: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thisisthelast.com\/products\/small-huggie-earring\/?Material=14k+Yellow+Gold&amp;Gemstone=White+Diamond\">Small 14K Gold Diamond Huggie<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thisisthelast.com\/products\/tiny-huggie-earring\/?Material=14K+YELLOW+GOLD&amp;Gemstone=White+Diamond\">Tiny 14K Gold Diamond Huggie<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thisisthelast.com\/products\/large-safety-pin-earring\/?Material=14k+Rose+Gold&amp;Gemstone=Plain\">Large 14K Rose Gold Safety Pin<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thisisthelast.com\/products\/small-seamless-hoop-earring\/?Material=14k+Rose+Gold&amp;Gemstone=Plain\">Small 14K Rose Gold Seamless Hoop Earring<\/a><\/p><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">I should&#8217;ve been more excited about the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thisisthelast.com\/products\/small-huggie-earring\/?Material=14k+Yellow+Gold&amp;Gemstone=White+Diamond\">gold and diamond huggies<\/a>\u2014I was, and still am; they&#8217;re the first of <a href=\"https:\/\/thisisthelast.com\/\">fine jewelry<\/a> I&#8217;ve independently purchased\u2014but the reality is that the <em>pi\u00e8ce de r\u00e9sistance<\/em>, the motivation behind this deliciously decadent and impulsive purchase, was the complimentary gift with purchase: a cream-colored jewelry box. Not just any kind, though, but a music box covered in rainbow symbols and lined in pink velvet. One with a ballerina in\u00a0<em>relev\u00e9\u00a0<\/em>that slowly twirled until it needed a generous wind again. Something I wanted as a child who loved fairy tales as much as she loved secrets, to keep the things I collected and treasured so dearly. <em>Little stones. Vintage buttons.<\/em> Jewelry I made and pieces I plucked from my mother&#8217;s collection.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">A box I wished for and loved to have, but was knew was too foolish to ask for.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">I find that all my purchases as an adult, aside from the practical stuff\u2014 gas, kombucha, Veganized brunches and post-practice lunches, fill the gaps of my childhood longings. (It&#8217;s important to me that I make clear that my parents gave me everything and more; I was always a girl who loved <em>things<\/em> but felt impossible guilt for wanting.Practicality was instilled in me at a young age, and therefore I so rarely asked my immigrant parents for frivolities.) Just a few weeks ago <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/Bjkyq9yh8EK\/?taken-by=kimberlypearl_\">I bought a Murakami Doraemon plush toy<\/a>, for Christ&#8217;s sake. Anyone in the reselling sphere will appreciate my swift\u00a0<em>click-to-purchase<\/em> of a now sold-out, limited edition collaboration sure to gain value in a few month&#8217;s time. (Or in this case, it only took a matter of days for this very plushie to pop up on eBay at a 50% markup.) It&#8217;s profitable desirability. This I knew, but I bought Doraemon with zero intention of flipping it. I purchased him in earnest because I loved, devoured, the Chinese-dubbed-Japanese series as a kid\u2014and I, the ever nostalgia-mourning millennial, wanted a piece of memorabilia that captured blissful, innocent youth.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In that same vein, I bought a new <a href=\"https:\/\/thisisthelast.com\/\">The Last Line<\/a> earrings just for the music box. To remember the girl that was\u2014and is\u2014inside.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">.\u00a0 \u00a0.\u00a0 \u00a0.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">xx<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I should&#8217;ve been more excited about the gold and diamond huggies\u2014I was, and still am; they&#8217;re the first of fine jewelry I&#8217;ve independently purchased\u2014but the reality is that the pi\u00e8ce de r\u00e9sistance, the motivation behind this deliciously decadent and impulsive purchase, was the complimentary gift with purchase: a cream-colored jewelry box. 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(It&#8217;s important to me that I make clear that my parents gave me everything and more; I was always a girl who loved things but felt impossible guilt for wanting.Practicality&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"full-width-content","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"The Last Line: Delicious, Delectable Diamonds","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[19,9],"tags":[366,343,1055],"class_list":["post-13000","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-kims-diary","category-style","tag-diary","tag-jewelry","tag-the-last-line","entry","has-post-thumbnail"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>The Last Line: Delicious, Delectable Diamonds &#8226; Soft Sensibilities<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/kimberlypearl.co\/blog\/the-last-line-delicious-delectable-diamonds\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"The Last Line: Delicious, Delectable Diamonds &#8226; Soft Sensibilities\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"I should&#8217;ve been more excited about the gold and diamond huggies\u2014I was, and still am; they&#8217;re the first of fine jewelry I&#8217;ve independently purchased\u2014but the reality is that the pi\u00e8ce de r\u00e9sistance, the motivation behind this deliciously decadent and impulsive purchase, was the complimentary gift with purchase: a cream-colored jewelry box. 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