Unsigned Treasures: Brooches From My Closet

Written by Treasure Seeker Colleen

The CAFA Closet Challenge post  I wrote yesterday, really had me thinking about my closet! I have always been a believer and wearer of fabulous brooches, and have too many to count. Many of them have come from different stores throughout the years. These days, they often come from My Sister's Closet.

Here are a few of my favorites taken on a fossilized ammonite from Nevada (Thanks L. Tsoukalas for the prop and the help with these photos)!

What are you wearing these days? I have seen a real mix of outfits on social media, from casual, all the way to cocktail. Love to hear yours!

Art Deco Bird, big, simple lines, wore it to a Drawing Class at Emily Carr. I knew we would have to draw and figured I could copy this design. Japanese Heron with red dot on its head. Wings are fan like and make we want to dance. Greenish blue pin I wear with Kimono or scarves, from our Vancouver specialty store, @buttonl,button. Red winged stylized bird, that I like to think of as Canadian.

The ammonite is silver backed and can be worn as a necklace or as a brooch. An Aztec pattern overlays with pinks and turquoises shining through. Copper frog with ceramic oranges and greens was a gift from a student who said that I helped her learn that frogs just might turn into princes. Swallow, blue and white, makes me think of travel, flight and looking up.

Another bird pin, enamel colours over copper. Reminds me to wear colour. Wooden brooch with hand and flowers. Souvenir pin, likely West Coast, city, water and whale. I heard from a stylist, recently, that brooches are out and if you do wear them, wear them only on your scarves. I disagree. Did you see the Queen's fabulous one, gleaming from her shoulder, totally drawing your eye away from the pearls? Brooches, classic, vintage, modern, precious whether gold or not. Statement!