what should i put in my locket?

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i recently inherited my great grandmothers locket. its a simple gold circle, with a tiny pearl in the middle of it, around which is a starburst pattern. im guessing it was made in the late 1800s or early 1900s.

any suggestions as to what i should put in it? i have no older photos of family, and i think new/color photos would look silly if placed in such a lovely antique...

― shh! (wide-eyed), Thursday, 14 July 2005 20:24 (twenty years ago)

You should put your heart in your locket, so you can take it off.

― Matthew C Perpetua (inca), Thursday, 14 July 2005 20:27 (twenty years ago)

Put an emergency valium in there.

I just bought a sweetheart a locket... an unusual rectangular shaped one, silver with a chain. Lockets are serious the best bang for your buck in the points game.

― andy --, Thursday, 14 July 2005 20:59 (twenty years ago)

the points game?

yeah, its too small to hold pills or any drugs, other than like a hit of acid or something, haha.

come on, people...ideas?

― shh! (wide-eyed), Thursday, 14 July 2005 21:30 (twenty years ago)

goatse

― s1ocki (slutsky), Thursday, 14 July 2005 21:34 (twenty years ago)

Lock of your sweetie's hair (or your baby's if you have one). And these days any photo can be altered to a sepia tone to make it look "antique". If no sweetie and no baby, how about nice pic of your grandmum? Enjoy your locket it sounds lovely.

― Wiggy (Wiggy), Thursday, 14 July 2005 21:35 (twenty years ago)

Yes, I was going to suggest a lock of hair, which is the traditional thing to be kept in lockets since before the days of photography.

(I have no idea whose hair I'd ever put in a locket, which is why my locket remains unworn in my jewelery box.)

― MIS Information (kate), Friday, 15 July 2005 06:37 (twenty years ago)

the thought of wearing someone's hair around seems a little ew to me. sorry! pic of your sweetheart, baby or grandmum sounds like good advice though. use a b&w one if the colour freaks you out.

― gem (trisk), Friday, 15 July 2005 06:39 (twenty years ago)

i need to get my hair cut, soon.

― hstencil (hstencil), Friday, 15 July 2005 06:39 (twenty years ago)

It has a strong flavour of sympathetic magic, but "ew"? It's only hair!

― MIS Information (kate), Friday, 15 July 2005 06:42 (twenty years ago)

well i did say sorry. yes i find hair that is unattached to a scalp a bit ew. just a thing. i think it has something to do with it being dead skin cells? i have some obsessive cleanliness tendencies (frenzies) and other people's old hair just seems dirty to me. i can't explain it.

― gem (trisk), Friday, 15 July 2005 06:58 (twenty years ago)

Fair enough. I have some odd phobias myself.

(I'm glad I didn't suggest "baby teeth" then, as well.)

― MIS Information (kate), Friday, 15 July 2005 07:04 (twenty years ago)

*shudders* me too! oh that sent shivers up my spine haha the thought of someone with baby teeth in their locket. my phobias are stupid.

― gem (trisk), Friday, 15 July 2005 07:08 (twenty years ago)

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