My name is Allyssa and I own The Locket Sisters. I started it with my eldest sister (I have four siblings) but it's just me (and my co-worker Mandy) now. I was voted Class Clown in HS and studied Spanish and Journalism in college. I studied abroad in Ecuador and then returned a decade later when my husband and I bought one-way tickets to Buenos Aires. I used to work in the non-profit world but lea…
I went to a live concert in May and wept for the beauty of the performance, the art, the sound, for the connection I felt with the strangers I didn't even know I missed, and for the release of something I must have been holding onto really tightly without realizing it. There was a moment when Davina and the Vegabonds repeated a verse a capella about sunny days ahead, and stared out into the s…
It's sunny and bright in the studio where we make your lockets. There's an entire wall of south-facing windows that beam sunshine and shadows inside this big space, sometimes so bright that we can't even sit facing outside. What a lovely problem to have, right?This space started out as a studio space exclusively for my sister and I with our photography business. We moved here in the Fall of 2015 b…
WHAT DOES 2020 WANT FROM US?In like a lion, out like...two lions? Three? A whole pack maybe?I started this year with the decision that I was going to cut corn out of my diet, and that it would be all the earth-shattering change I’d need to go from wherever I was to wherever I was headed. Corn gives me headaches, makes me feel really achy, and I figured this would suffice as far as evolving for the…
Motherhood has propelled me in ways that I think only could have happened though the lens of mothering my two kids. It's broken me, healed me, wrecked me, brought me to my knees, lifted me up, held a mirror to myself, and ricocheted me forward.My son was born eight years ago, and I remember my first clear maternal instinct while pregnant with him was that I strongly avoided birthing books and birt…
