Photographs are emotional, not logical. Nobody has to understand why you love it, why it tells the story of who someone was, someone is, what a person means to you. We’ve grabbed photos from long ago that we forgot about and been stopped in our tracks. Grabbed by the emotion. We’ve wondered how in the […]
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Two-Photo Lockets
We’re asked often which lockets can hold two photos, and it’s helpful to see them all in one spot with photos, right? So – here ya go! The Lillian (gold or silver), The Stacy (gold or silver), The Little Love, The Big Love, The Gold Heart, The Dorothy (gold or silver), The Little Circle (gold or silver),and The Little Oval (gold […]
Reconciling Yourself
Growing up as the fourth of five kids, I always knew I wanted a big family of my own, too. I love that you can either be surrounded by love and connection (and fighting) or you can quietly slip away and there’s still so much chaos that no one will miss you. And I like […]
Every Locket
On a Friday night during college – in a very “college town” type of community – I overheard another woman say, “What the heck is she thinking with those shoes?” I knew she was talking about…
Be Nice to You
You know how when you’re scrolling through social media or the news and theres all these bits of advice about how to get rid of toxic people, how to handle them, how to discard toxicity in your life, how to eat less toxic food, clean with less toxic cleaning supplies and on and on and […]
What the Gold Heart Locket Means to Us
About 12 years ago I was in a seminar for women that a friend was hosting as part of her new counseling business. They asked us that heavy albeit inspiring question, “What would you do if you knew you couldn’t fail?” That night I went home and made an online boutique to sell jewelry. Nothing […]
Care for you, too.
I remember when we were kids my Mom’s diamond earrings went missing. They were little diamond studs, and they meant so much to her – at least in my memory they did. Surely, one of us was playing in her jewelry box and lost them. Took them and misplaced them. Treated them as though they […]
Amy was a Supermodel
In elementary school I used to pay attention to when report cards were being sent home from school and I’d grab mine before my parents could get it from the mail. Sometimes it was ok, I was proud of my grades, not always though. They were none the wiser (and are probably finding out if […]
Hang On
About ten years ago I was working with a woman who had been robbed and experienced a close death in her family in a short period of time. “My god,” I said. “You’ve been through so much.” She replied with musings about how life is like a zebra, where sometimes you’re in the white stripes, […]
Stillborn, Still loved.
A month ago one of my closest friends labored her twin boys for nearly 24 hours, though Hudson and Harrison’s souls had already left their bodies. Her first babies, both gone in what felt like a sweep. I showed up the day before to tell her I love her and the day after to photograph […]
Marie Kondo + Jay-Z
A few years ago I read Marie Kondo’s book “The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up.” My mind moves 90mph 24/7 so seeing “stuff” all around me is like pressing on the gas when really I’m working hard on slowing down. At first her book was so weird that I almost didn’t pick it back up, […]
A Wedding Locket
It hadn’t occurred to us how meaningful a locket might be on a wedding day for a bride (or groom? or mother of the bride? mother of the groom?) until we had an inquiry about it. Of course, we thought. It’s one of the most important days in a person’s life, and when someone is […]
Still We Rise
It’s risky business to use our voice with our work. Our political voice. Our values voice. But our work is rooted in our voice. We make lockets to give your stories a voice, to keep what’s important to you close, and for us, silencing what’s important to us along the way seems impossible. Undoable. We […]
WE’RE ALL OVER THE INTERNET YO
It’s not like we’re gonna break the internet the way Kim Kardashian did/does but we’re excited to see our lockets spreading across the globe and into gift guides. We agree that they’re incredible gifts, too. We get emails and texts all the time about people bursting into tears when they open their locket. This one […]
Grief
Yesterday was an emotional day for us. In a good way. We’re ok with emotions and feelings. Hell, we’d even consider ourselves “deeply feeling women” and were even quoted as such in a recent article in MSP Mag. When we make your lockets we read what you share with us about the photo, think about […]
The Eliza Locket
My sister and I love hippie doctors. They’re not actually hippies, and they’re not actually doctors, but they lie somewhere in the grey between and they’re effective. They’ve helped so many people in my family through non-invasive interventions like herbs and cutting out sugar that I’m an unapologetic believer. They have a sense of what’s […]
Holiday Gifts that Give
Lush Charity Pot: A moisturizer that donates 100% of proceeds to environmental charities? Ummmm. Yeah. I’m on board with that. For sure. Straight from their website: “With every purchase of Charity Pot, we donate 100% of the price (minus the taxes) to small grassroots organizations working in the areas of environmental conservation, animal welfare and […]
Gratitude
A couple of weeks ago I bought a pack of playing cards from Target that has games like Memory, Crazy 8s, Old Maid. My kids are only four and six so finding something that levels the competitive playing field for them against my husband and I is hard. But then we found Memory. Every evening […]
The Henry
I made my son, my Dad, my husband and my father-in-law a pocket piece last year for Christmas with our lockets. It was kind of as a test to see if they’d hold up, and also because IT’S FUN TO GIVE LOCKETS! (Assume I’m yelling with excitement whenever you see writing in caps). The truth […]
The Two Yous
I remember driving away from the hospital after my first kid was born thinking, “How the hell does anyone ever recover from this?” Parenthood is a paradigm shift. You were facing East and now you’re going to…
Hong Kong: Rewritten
I realize that probably no one even reads this stuff we (read: I) write here, but my instincts are telling me to write, so I listen and do as I’m told. I wrote something last night, put my kids to bed, then came back to it this morning and was like WTF was that? and […]