Girl with the pearl earring

During my christmas holidays - which were very restful and relaxing - I started to think about fables, stories, books and films that feature a lost earring as part of the plot.

Girl with the pearl earring was the first to spring to mind, but if you can think of any other stories,books or films please send them through?

Arianne's lost Tiffany & Co earrings...

My lost earrings read like a graveyard for treasured Tiffany & Co. collections. Sadly, I have kept one of each of the pair, to which I have unfortunately misplaced their mate. I’ve even considered buying fake Tiffany jewellery, just so I can wear them again! However, I know they would be fake and they probably wouldn’t match. One day, when I have a spare & lazy $1,500, I will buy them again.



These open heart earrings were given to me by three of my best girlfriends for my 30th birthday. I can’t remember when or where I lost it, but I’m now 35 and I still haven’t told them! I keep thinking I’m going to find it somewhere.



I was given the beans as a thank you for organising a big event at my former work. I just love them so much, and when I lost one, again, I couldn’t help but think I might find it again.



These X earrings were given to me as a farewell present from my former company. One day I wore them to work, when I got home, one was missing. Sigh.

Arianne
Sydney
Australia

Linde's story...

I love these jangly earrings but after a get-together with friends, a few bottles of sav blanc, good tunes and dancing on tables - god knows where the other one ended up???

Linde
Gisbourne
New Zealand

Jane's lost earring

This dangly little earring was the first 'adult' pair of earrings I was allowed to wear. Given as a gift by my mother, in some ways the earrings represented 'coming of age' - I loved wearing them and felt quite sophisticated. I guess this is why I have kept them in my jewellery box for so long.

My mother didn't like girls and young teenagers wearing big earrings - I guess in her conservative but sweet way she didn't want me to look like a tarty adolescent. At the time I might not have agreed with my mother's conservative ways but now as a mother myself it is easier to understand.

Jane
Brisbane
Australia

Another one bites the dust...

Who would have thought I would lose more single earrings during the one lost earring project??

I loved these little lavendar and white button studs...

Zara
Sydney
Australia

Michelle's lost earrings...

Both of these earrings were given to me for my 30th birthday by two of my closest friends.

The owl earring was made by my friend out of rose anodised aluminium. She chose the owl as a symbol of wisdom to make me feel good about my milestone. I took it out to do yoga and lost it somewhere on my journey home.

The silver earring was picked out by my other friend at a trade fair. It shows how much she knows me because the stone is my favourite colour (I often wear it) and the design is my style (small and delicate). It was lost while I was pashing a boy in the rain.

I don't own that many earrings, so I was happy to receive them and was proudly wearing them. They were versatile to wear with many outfits.

I was so disappointed when I lost them - both within a couple of weeks of my birthday! So annoyed by my carelessness and recklessness, I spent a long time trying to find them in the places where I knew they'd been lost.

They remind me of several lessons. To accept loss and let go. To forgive myself. To be careful. To treasure meaningful things. The kinds of things you finally realise in your 3rd decade.

They also remind me of my friends. They hang next to my bed so I often look at them and remember their thoughtfulness and times that we've shared together.

As I prepared this, I realised... They've become a pair with one another in my mind now - which is a nice ending! I like to think that they are not lonely.

Sydney
Australia

Cris' lost earring

Where did you get the earrings from?
My good friend Lucy knew I coveted some Tiffany earrings and that I wasn’t in a position to buy them. She found these great replicas that really summed up what I loved about the design and got them for me as a pressy.

When or how did you loose the earring?
About 2 years after she gave them to me I went for dinner with my boyfriend. When I got home I realised I only had one in. I was gutted as I loved them so much. The next night my boyfriend surprised me with buying the actual earrings from Tiffany’s. Until now I have not confessed that when she sees me wearing the earrings that are not the ones she got me.

Why did you keep the lost earring?
It was a present from a very good friend and I would never throw it away.

Cris
Sydney
Australia