Resin, Engraved or Loose? How Photos Live Inside a Locket Before a trip to visit extended family in Europe, Mandy tucked photos of her two grandmothers into a little gold locket we’d made as a sample years earlier and then set aside. When she came home and told us about them (one of them was named Doris), we knew that forgotten sample needed a name. Today it’s The Doris, and those two faces ar…
Permanent jewelry is a bracelet, anklet or necklace with no clasp. It’s closed with a tiny micro-weld, so it stays on through showers, swims, sleep and everything in between. We’ve been welding these chains in our Northeast Minneapolis studio since 2023, and the question we still hear most is the simplest one: what is it, exactly? Here’s the full answer, plus how it started for u…
