My mom just called and asked me to make a 50th birthday cake for her neighbor. For Saturday. Thanks Mom, nothing like notice. She doesn't want the "Over the Hill", etc. theme. The neighbor loves to go to flea markets and yard sales, collects a bunch of costume jewelry, things like that. I'm having a total mind blank on this. Any ideas??

What if you were to make an old (antique) jewelry box; like one you might find at the flea market and then make a bunch of "costume" jewelry to put into the jewelry box. You could make them look like real treasures that might be "junk" to someone else. Kind of like, "one man's (woman's) junk is a is another one's treasures."