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So usually my blog posts are more about fashion, design or a Mother’s Day Gift Guide. That’s how it should be. I’m a jewelry designer and jewelry is all about fun and happiness, right? I’m not only a jewelry designer, I’m a mother. I’m not only a mother, I’m a mother who has lost a [...]
Upcoming Trunk Shows!
On the Road Again! Get ready Huntsville and Nashville! I am headed your way with some gorgeous jewelry! So thankful for some really gracious hostesses in both cities who have invited me to come and share their love of ExVoto Vintage with their friends. YA’LL COME TOO!! Bring a friend and head over for some [...]
Mother’s Day Gift Guide 2013
Mother’s Day is right around the corner and, as we know, sometimes our Mother’s Day shopping elves need a little help getting pointed in the right direction. Therefore, I asked some of my favorite tastemakers and bloggers to give us their personal picks from the ExVoto collection. I gathered their choices together here in a [...]
Memphis Trunk Shows
If you are in the Memphis area, you will not want to miss the upcoming trunk shows there. All of the advantages of shopping in our showroom can be found at our trunk shows. Not only can your custom create your necklace or bracelet, you can also shop many of the one-of-a-kind pieces ExVoto has [...]
Spring Gift Guide
Graduation, Easter, confirmation, Mother’s Day…Spring is HERE! For the Easter Basket, or confirmation, we suggest the Maisy necklace with Primrose cross. (Note: the Primrose cross can be engraved with a monogram.) For more details on this necklace click HERE. Or the Messenger Necklace. The Messenger necklace shown features genuine turquoise stones, but is also available [...]
Couture To Cure
We recently launched a one-of-a-kind collection which is available online and in our showroom called, Couture to Cure. Couture to Cure is created with exceptional antique elements from my private collection of antique pendants and lockets I have gathered over the past three years. With antique elements combined with semi-precious stones, freshwater pearls, sterling silver [...]
Spring 2013 Inspiration
While developing the new pieces for the Spring 2013 season, I dreamed up a story of a girl on a road trip through the Southeast. This is a road trip which resembles glamping. Glamping is a contemporary term referring to “glamorous camping.” This is not a truly “roughing it” trip. This is a trip with [...]
Spring Dream
About this time of year, we all get a little tired of the cold and begin dreaming of springtime. This year, if you live in the south, you are getting tired of the rain. Here is the upside of rainy winters–they make beautiful springs! At our house, we are replanting a large front yard bed [...]
The “Original” Locket and Blessing
If you have read the “Our Story” page of our website, you will be familiar with the origin of our blessing charms that are available inside our lockets. I thought I would fill you in on the details and show you a photograph of that original locket. When I was a baby, my father’s mentor, [...]
Tassels
We are having a lot of fun with tassels of chain and stones in the studio lately! Here is a look at some of the newest pieces to feature the tassel. The Kathleen Necklace with Ivy Pendant, carnelian stone, and chain tassel:: The Kam Necklace with Freshwater pearls can be worn two ways::One way with [...]
Vintage Valentines
Growing up, my maternal grandmother, “Mimi”, lived two states away. In spite of the fact that we were not able to see her but a few times each year, my sister and I were close to her. Mimi was great about sending a card when she had to miss a birthday and it seems Mimi [...]
