If you are like most of us, on Monday this week you woke up cursing  daylight savings time for stealing an hour of sleep from your life.  After staring incredulously at your alarm clock, you crawled reluctantly out of bed in the dark  and consoled yourself with a hot cup of coffee and a mental countdown to spring break.  
Of course not everyone is among the elite who enjoy the rewards of a random week off in the spring, but if you are a student or, like me, an extremely weary teacher, the prospect of this week tides you over like an unchecked Powerball ticket.
On a relaxing week off of work, the last thing you need to do is have any sort of knowledge of the time.  Let the hours and days blend together.  Sleep and eat whenever your want.  Don't even think about wearing your wristwatch.  This is the perfect time to wear jewelry with vintage watch faces!  They allow you to enjoy the beauty of a watch face without being hampered by the knowledge that you are eating breakfast at 5 in the afternoon.  This telephone dial vintage watch face eases any I-just-slept- for-13- hours-guilt while evoking images of film noir with Barbara Stanwyck lounging by the phone and classic moments such as this:
DOUBLE INDEMNITY (1944)
Phyllis Dietrichson (Barbara Stanwyck), at their first meeting: "There's a speed limit in this state, Mr. Neff. Forty-five miles an hour."
Walter Neff (Fred MacMurray): "How fast was I going, officer?"
Stanwyck: "I'd say around 90."
Neff: "Suppose you get down off your motorcycle and give me a ticket."
Phyllis: "Suppose I let you off with a warning this time"
Neff: "Suppose it doesn't take."
Phyllis: "Suppose I have to whack you over the knuckles."
Neff: "Suppose I bust out crying and put my head on your shoulder."
Phyllis: "Suppose you try putting it on my husband's shoulder."
Neff: "That tears it."

But if you are a college student plunging into spring break, you will need an entirely different kind of watch for your wrist!  When you are crushed in a throng of fellow partiers dancing at Pineapple Willy's in Panama Beach, how will you know what time it is?  How will you know if you are getting a text or phone call?  The answer lies in one high-tech, modern wrist watch.  It's a watch that looks like a bracelet, vibrates when you have a phone call and plays music from your iPod long after the band has stopped and the DJ has called it night.  In fact, you can even answer the phone from this watch!   

If you are a retro kind of girl sporting this state-of-the art bluetooth watch, you can offset your modern bling with a vintage watch face necklace or soothe your need for the past by acting out an I'm-just-like-David-Hasselhoff-talking-to-his-car moment the next time you chat on the phone via your watch.   

So let's move past our lost hour and look forward to losing time on our own terms this spring break.  Whether you are lounging around a pool or curled up with a Knight Rider marathon, you can relish your vacation secure in the knowledge that there is a watch perfect for the moment. But if perchance you do start to feel some wispy tendrils of boredom,  please spend your week figuring out why Michael is talking to KITT via his watch in this picture when KITT is clearly right there under his butt.

I admit it.  I watch X-Factor.  I have also been know to follow The Voice, American Idol, and America's Got Talent.  Although my favorite part is always finding some unknown person from an unknown town with a population of 500 who turns out to be an amazing talent, now I'm looking for something other than unique vocals.  I've got my eye on their necklaces! The X-Factor lost a great bringer of necklaces when Paige Thomas got eliminated.  Although I wasn't particularly enamored by her voice, I did enjoy her jewelry style.  

This chunky piece has a lot of interesting flower features.  Is it just me, or is it practically begging for a vintage watch face to be added to it?  Overall, she wears it well because she's a performer and it doesn't hurt that she is also beautiful with a nice long necklace neck.  Could a normal person get away this in the real world?  I doubt it!

This necklace has more understated look for such a large piece.  It's probably quite heavy, but it manages to look more feminine than simply wrapping some chain link around your neck.  Could this be worn by an average person on the street?  Yes, I think the right person could pull this one off!

I've been having a Bones marathon on Netflix lately.  In case you aren't familiar with this TV show, it stars Emily Deschanel and David Boreanaz.  According to IMDb, the show can be summed up as "A forensic anthropologist and a cocky FBI agent build a team to investigate death causes."  I would go one step further and say it can be summed up as "A forensic anthropologist who must have the world's biggest jewelry box because she wears at least one new necklace every episode and a cocky FBI agent build a team to investigate death causes."   It's true.  Every time I watch it I eagerly check out Dr. Brennan for her new piece of bling.  After watching 3 episodes in a row the other day, I took a break to do what every bored person with a computer does, Google search random thoughts and observations.  In this instance I ran "Bones necklaces" through the  webbed think tank and now I have way more information about said topic than I really needed.  The two highlights of my search were 1) a site that has a photograph of every necklace anyone ever wore on the show (and I thought I was bored!) and 2) the following comment to an in-depth look at the jewelry of Bones. "Weird taste although who am I to judge I hate almost all jewelry."  THEN WHY WERE YOU READING, WATCHING VIDEO FROM, AND COMMENTING ON AN ARTICLE ALL ABOUT VERY SPECIFIC JEWELRY??  Okay, maybe all caps was overkill.  Here is the video The Neck With the Necklace about the jewelry artist for Bones. Also check out the photos from the site mentioned above. I do admire all the work that went into compiling this photo collection!  http://bonesnecklaces.tumblr.com