The macabrely decorated skeletons and skulls of Mexico’s Dia de los Muertos aren’t to scare, but to remind us to celebrate the present.  Families meet at ancestral gravesites for a party creating offerings of honor, clean their graves and picnic to tell stories about the departed.  It is a very human ability to transform our life into emotions.  Tell the stories about your jewelry.  In this way, regular jewelry transforms into “family jewels,” and a jewelry box becomes a treasure chest of the most meaningful kind.

Jewelry adornment is deeply encoded in our DNA…it is a gift handed down from the intelligence, skills, and rich emotional lives of our most ancient ancestors.