Custom Hand or Foot Print Charms

These next set of photos are our new Custom Handprint and Footprint Charms!  I was amazed to discover that I can use scans of h and or foot prints from hospital prints or just from homemade prints on white paper.  It is so gratifying to see these when they are done and to see how the detail of the prints gets transferred to the charms.  Shown here are our fine silver charms with h and stamped names curved under the feet.

I’ve done a few of these for people who have multiple children.  I have also done these from hospital prints for parents who have lost their babies.  Those are a little hard to make, simply because I know the parents have so little to remember their children by.  But it feels good to know I am helping to solidify that little token onto something permanent for them.  So I always say a little blessing while working on those.

Hand Stamped Names and Custom Feet Prints

These pedants are a little bit of work.  🙂  It’s all good – don’t me wrong!  But there are a lot of steps that you have to follow closely to get the best end result.  My favorite part is h and polishing these – that is when I get to see the final result and see all the work come to fruition.

Hand Print and Footprint Pendants

Custom Artwork Charms

Child's drawing on a pendant

I’m so excited to be able to unveil our new line of custom-made charms – seen here are our Artwork Charms, where we take a scan of your favorite piece of your child’s artwork and turn it into a sterling silver or fine silver charm.  There will be more information and photos to come, as we introduce this new line!

This is actually something I have been working on for a few years, so it wasn’t a light bulb idea one day and a jewelry line the next.   One of the reasons it took so long for me to come up with a good, repeatable process to get the artwork onto charms, is because I had many setbacks.  I had a vision in my head of how I wanted the final product to look, and it took a lot of trial and error and trying different techniques to get there.   The moment I finally had a charm that looked great, I did a little hoopty dance and instead of celebrating, just wanted to make more of them!  Stay tuned for more information on this jewelry line!

Child's Artwork Necklace
For Astrid

My Favorite Things About Summer

Heart On Your Wrist Mom Jewelry

My favorite things about summer…

  1. Evenings in our yard with the kids on the trampoline while Kevin and I grill up some dinner
  2. Eating outside
  3. Lots and lots of impromptu play dates with kids from the neighborhood
  4. Getting into work a bit later than usual, and leaving earlier than usual
  5. Warm days that just beg me to get on my bike and cruise around the neighborhood
  6. Outdoor movies in our yard with the kids in jammies and sleeping bags
  7. Seeing family and friends at various BBQ’s
  8. Vacation – this year we went to Hawaii to celebrate my parent’s 50th wedding anniversary (we usually go to Cape Cod every year but this year we chose Hawaii…but we miss the Cape and all the cousins!)
  9. The sun going down late and letting us play outside for longer
  10. Playing basketball with the kids in our driveway
  11. Swimming at my sister’s house
  12. Flip flops
  13. Beach excursions
  14. More beach excursions
  15. Staying up late
  16. Lots of time for cards games with the kids
  17. Having time to just chill and appreciate everything around me

What are your favorite things about summer?

Mixed Hand Stamped Charms Necklace

I love mixing charm types and sizes, and here are some recent customer orders that I thought pulled everything together so nicely!  These are good examples of ‘building your own’ necklace by selecting charms and beads throughout the site, adding a chain and having us put it all together for you.  The charms, beads and spacer beads are all removable so you can move things around, add charms, remove charms.  It’s up to you and your mood!  Some of our customers come up with the cutest combinations.   You can see the list of components below each photo if you like any of the charms you see here.

Dainty Rectangle, Disc with Genuine Birthstone, Puffed Heart Scroll, Cubic Zirconia on Fine Ball chain, Spacer Beads

Nana Charm, Tiny Stars Name Charms, Pearl Cluster on a Flat Cable chain, Spacer Beads

H and Stamped Sterling 1/2″ disc, Message In A Bottle, April Round Swarovski, Large Sterling Silver Cross, Ball Chain, Spacer Beads

 

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