If so, you are continuing a tradition that is at least 30,000 years old. Jewelry has been worn since ancient time by all cultures. Our ancestors made the first jewelry from natural materials, such as seeds, nuts, feathers, shells, and bones, that could be easily worked.
Archeologists think the oldest kind of jewelry is the pendant.
Early Stone Age people strung materials like animal bones on plant fibers to make the first pendants. Near the end of the Stone Age, about 17,000 years ago, humans learned how to bore holes through stone. They also mastered the the technique of surface polishing. Although people carved bone and ivory long before then, the objects they fashioned were not worn. Historians say drilling and polishing stones to make beads was the first major alteration of raw materials to make jewelry.