Since I haven’t had too many pressing things to do on my agenda, I’ve been searching for jewelry to go with my dress. Hey, there’s no better time than now to get it taken care of, right? Look, my thinking is, why wait until I have fifteen thousand other things on my plate to purchase my jewelry? I have the dress, so I’ll go ahead and buy the accessories to go with it.

Now, I had always wanted to wear pearls–either a necklace or earrings or both–, but now I’m wondering how feasible that is. My dress is so simple that pearls would just look boring on it, I think. The problem is, I’m not exactly the queen of accessorizing an outfit, so maybe what I’m doing is all wrong! But I think that an interesting pop of jewelry will be good.

My new favorite website is etsy.com, because everything is so amazingly unique and awesome and handcrafted, and most things are very reasonably priced. There’s even a special wedding category with suggestions! Here is the necklace that I found, from the user ellejewels.

Just a few weeks ago (have I written about this already?) I was in Borders with Jarrod, and I picked up a pencil case and admired the design on it. “You like birds, don’t you?” Jarrod asked, and I realized at that moment that I really do like designs with birds on them. I mean, I’m not like, a huge real-life bird fan. I don’t memorize bird calls or anything. But for some reason, I really like stylized birds. And so that’s a huge thing in this necklace.

Now the problem I face is, what do I put with it? I could get these lily earrings to match the necklace, but I feel like that would be too matchy. Maybe some sort of beaded pretty things? I don’t know. And would a necklace, earrings, and bracelet be overkill? I’m not planning on having a handbag at all. Hey, if you have any suggestions for me, by all means comment! I really like feedback on my ideas, mostly because I’m an indecisive person who weighs pros and cons of things, and then can’t make up her mind. Politically, I am a moderate–no surprise there!

Anyway, I’ve got time to ruminate. But we’re coming up on the halfway point to our engagement! That’s very exciting news to me. I’m ready to be married.