What's in your Treasure Chest?

[lululoves]

Hi, I'm soooooo happy because I just found one of my most treasured object again after like 3months of grief, I'm am just ;D and I'm just such in a crazy daze and wanted to know what you guys kept close to your heart.

It's quite silly but my object is a ring with a nice big blue diamondy-jewel thing ( i dont know my rocks) set in the middle. Its not that pretty or attractive, it's definately not real {I got it for £3} but its special because its like the mascot of my friendship group. We often talk about relationships and other problems when we wear it..it's just like this thing we have. I just adore it.
Totally relieved.
{Maybe will post a picture on but who photographs rings?}

[oldgregg]

Your ring sounds really pretty. Glad you found it.
I have a box of jewellery I like to think of as a treasure chest, but because I'm very picky about jewellery it's only got like two things in - a gold and ruby locket my Dad bought me when I was 8 and a bangle from convent garden made out of stained glass. I wwould be devastated if I lost either one, so I totally empathise.

[Rhiflect]

I bought a gorgeous 1930s brown beret-type hat in an Amsterdam flea market last year. I absolutley ADORED it but i lost it. It's one of the things i've lost that i miss most. Along with a bronze-y plate with a picture of a camel on and my name in Arabic (actually, i think it said Ryan instead of Rhianne but oh well) enscribed on it which i think fell out of my window. Gutted. I also had a necklace with like an aztec blue heart on with little metal feathers on, but i lost the heart and two feathers at a school disco, which i am sooo sad about since i love that necklace and i thought of it as a kinda guardian angel thing. Sad

[tesla]

A ring (once featured as my avatar) that my mother gave me; silver with a dangling jewel encased in a heart-shaped frame,
A bracelet that my sister gave me; colored gold and held together with flat, round beads (close-up, they look like someone etched flowers into them.),
A scrapbook with a photo of my mom on the front, and her letters taped to the inside. To be honest, I have too many things that are valuable to me to list them all..

[lazy poet]

i have a silver ring that my mum gave me a while ago. it's nothing much, just a simple silver ring wihtout any marks or stones etc, but it's the first ring that my dad made
but one of my friends was going through my room the other day and lost it
it's like trying to find a needle in a haystack

[mimicry]

A little brown stone mouse.

[mynameisHughGrant]

sometimes i'll be tidying (ahaha note SOMEIMES0 or emptying schoolbags and find letters written to me by friends. i love reading them so i suppose maybe if i had a treasure chest they'd be in it

[bluearrangements]

Grizzly the bear is my most prized possession- a rather strange looking bear given to me on my day of birth. I left him for a year in a box in my pa's garage when I went away for a year. Last week I went to get him back and after about half an hour of cuddling it like a 3yr old I noticed a disgusting maggoty type thing on my skirt..eurrrghhhhhh...and although the bear has been inspected and washed and everything I still have a niggling feeling that there are horrible insects wiggling about in my poor bear's tummy

All the jewelry I've ever loved I have lost, there have been a few things that induced incredible amounts of guilt and now I just say tell people to not buy me nice stuff smaller than an average sized dog, in the hope it won't disappear so easily. The other possession I adore is a stunning carving my Dad did me for my birthday. It's a dolphin and I think it's his best work yet. There's a story behind my Dad and his carving which makes me so happy and grateful that he's here. (even if he's hardly ever actually here)

And then there's my guitars. Once I lost my favourite and most expensive (and brand new at the time) guitar in my small study bedroom. I stepped on it by accident and the neck broke in two. Ooops. Although none of my guitars (yet) have the same sentimental value as the bear or the carving. They were more guitars I could afford rather than instruments I fell in love with. Like if I got an orange gretsch. That's the ultimate.

In general I really love stuff and things which used to make me really ashamed. Now I just go and buy more stuff and more things to get over it.

[lazy poet]

i forgot to add; i have an old book in french from 1937 which i do drawings and things in
i'd be devistated if i lost that
i take it everywhere with me

and patrick wolf's braces i always treasure

there's too many things i treasure probably

[Lawrence]

I have one of russell lissack's guitar picks, I treasure it, but I don't have a treasure chest

[minda]

a necklace i think my dad gave to my mom, and then ended up in my possession after it had belonged to all my siblings, and old drawings and random silly stuff that my friends and i used to make, even now, a couple of years later we still laugh ourselves to tears if we look at them... <.)

[Rhiflect]

Oh yeah, my teddy given to me at age 3 months, bought from the top of a Woolies sweet counter Still can't sleep without him.

[allison]

Bunny, a stuffed animal. Mostly bald now but used to be white and brown, completely floppy, s/hes like a triagular blob with a tail on one end, four legs sticking out, a head, and two super long ears. S/he still sleeps on my bed. S/he used to go everywhere with me, any picture of me before age 4 has Bunny in it, I'm amazed s/he never got lost. My dog got to Bunny once and chewed a nice little hole in him/her.

I've inherited alot of jewelery from dead relatives but my mother always takes it to "keep it safe." My favorite one was this sapphire ring from my great-grandmother, she had two and gave one to each of her great-granddaughters. It's silver and all around it are little square sapphires. My mother wears it with her wedding ring and I'll probably never get it back.

[mynameisHughGrant]

lozb said:

I have one of russell lissack's guitar picks, I treasure it, but I don't have a treasure chest

i had one of them! it was really useful for playing fast notes. i guess i treasured it...til i lost it.
i don't even buy guitar picks anymore, i just pick them up when i see them lying onstage ;D

[Lawrence]

you lost it? I havent even used mine, it's too special to me. I bought a pack of the same type, theyre really good, not too thick, not too thin

[youhippy]

A limited edition vox bass, signed by joe strummer from the clash
my little metal necklace that cost like two pound fifty and which was given to me by a friend.
a cd a friend made me for my birthday
and this bronze napkin ring with a Chinese dragon on it that i wear as a bracelet,
baring the guitar its all really worthless but i'd be lost without them

[mynameisHughGrant]

lozb said:

you lost it? I havent even used mine, it's too special to me. I bought a pack of the same type, theyre really good, not too thick, not too thin

well...when i say lost, i mean it's been surrendered to the guitar pick rotation system. i use one exclusively for a while, it goes missing and i find another, same happens again and again until the first one turns up

[resurrectart]

I don't think I have a treasure chest. I do have a very expensive collector guitar though, if that counts.

[abolishconfusion]

My scrapbook. BEST THING EVER. I lose it all the time though.

[bridgetbegins]

My treasure chest is full of strange things... Most of the things live in a coffee can located in my dresser...

- My claddagh ring (a gift from my first real girlfriend- we had matching ones and we've broken up (almost a year past) and I still wear mine way too frequently...)
-A large selection of rocks and postcards and letters from places I've been and people I've met...
-The knitting project I started with my great grandmother at the young age of four or five...
-Pictures of me and my parents from when I was young...
-A sand dollar collected from a local beach on my 10th birthday... (a chilly February)
-Assorted ticket stubs and expired metro cards and other mementos...