I always say that quality is more important than quantity, and that applies here too. Some items have family history or are antique and have been passed down through generations, and the brooches I am bringing you are more family heirlooms than my own personal possessions. Others have been gifts, and the badge was earned through merit.
I don't have a large collection of brooches or badges; in fact, it's not even my collection, except for the badge, but rather a family heirloom. When I heard about the initiative, I immediately told my mother, and she said she had some brooches. She found them for me, and I loved them so much that I decided to bring them. She also told me that many of them weren't hers, but had been passed down to her.
But before talking about the family brooches, I want to show you some that my friend gave me. I don't wear brooches, but my mother does, and she has found them very useful, especially with scarves.
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On this occasion, I used my own scarves to show you how they look. I especially like the one on the pink scarf.
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Then there's this shiny black brooch that looks like a flower. It's beautiful, and because it's shiny, it looks elegant on any garment and gives it a distinctive touch, a very beautiful detail.
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This brooch is a combination of a brooch and charms. It's very old and I think I've forgotten where it came from, but my mother keeps it. I like that it has such an old year engraved on it and I've always liked charms, especially on bracelets, because of the sound they make when they touch each other. I love the owl, it's beautiful, and I'll leave you with a question: what do you see in the other two?
This brooch is one of my favourites. It belonged to Mirta, my second cousin. She was going to be my godmother, but she died in a car accident a year before I was born. I've only seen her in photos, but her mother, who ended up being my godmother, told me about her. She gave me many of her daughter's things, including this pink brooch with little stones. I really love it.
The following are family brooches, family heirlooms.
This beautiful brooch belonged to my grandmother Esther, my maternal grandmother, and my mother turned it into a pendant, but it was originally a brooch. It has stones of various colours and a somewhat ornate style, reminiscent of the Baroque period. What my mother doesn't remember is whether my grandmother inherited it from her mother, but that may well be the case.
It looks simple, and it is, but it's also one of my favourites. This brooch belonged to Matilde, my great-grandmother, my maternal grandmother's mother. It's silver and it's a real beauty, at least to me. I've never liked very large or flashy details. This brooch is perfect and elegant. It goes perfectly with any outfit and gives it distinction.
Finally, I bring you a badge, the only one I have physically. The other badges I have are from Hive, and I will soon be celebrating three years here, which fills me with excitement.
This badge you see is not made of silver or any valuable material, but even though I never understood why it was a rhinoceros, it was given to me at my second job in Spain. I worked as a salesperson, selling phone plans to businesses. At one point, the manager decided that I was ready and met the requirements to be a team supervisor, and I was given this badge. From then on, I had my own team to lead, and we called ourselves The Lions.
What matters here is perhaps not the badge itself, but what it meant: a great achievement that came with great responsibility. And I was able to do it. My team became one of the largest and most productive, and I was very happy about that.
Perhaps my collection is not very large, but it has history. Thank you very much for joining me today. Best regards. See you soon.
Amonet.
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