Singer and songwriter Jewel has plenty to share when it comes to her accessories collection. For the latest episode of Precious Metals, the star walks us through her favorite pieces, from a necklace her son, Kase, made her to a diamond ring that her mother bought her. Most of the pieces that are special to Jewel, as she shares in the video above, are not “expensive”—rather, they hold an emotional connection for her.
One such piece is a rose necklace her grandmother gave her, which Jewel wore to the 2001 MTV Video Music Awards. The musician shares that because she was raised on a homestead in Alaska, she wasn’t used to getting all dressed up. While everyone was dressed to the nines, Jewel wore jeans and a vest—”I felt really authentic and I felt really good,” she says. “For me, the significance of the roses was about allowing myself to continually bloom in life.”