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.

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.
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.
Creativity requires us to release our preconceived notions and let our innate abilities rise while traveling along the road less known. “Getting “lost” has been an integral part of developing my creative confidence. The magic is in the unexpected.”
How much of love is served by memory? I bet you all remember your first kiss – maybe even what your beloved was wearing when you met…
Today, the morning after, I walked to work letting my mind go roaming off leash. Fragile in some ways and durable in many others, that light reflects eternity…
Do you like surprises or pranks? I sure do and think of them as an alternative “I Love You” to my dear ones. To surprise my oldest last Sunday evening as she arrived home after weeks away, I turned all the house lights off…
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