We've all had one at one point in our lives. I remember getting one when I was younger, I still have it! It's a gold heart with an 'M' etched on it. I even had one that I wore as a pin! I still have that one too. It's a silver oval that hangs on a pin so you can wear it as a brooch. I haven't worn it in over 18 years, but I still have it!
Lockets have been around for hundreds of years! Originally used to keep a photograph or another small item such as a curl of hair.
I love the dainty-ness of the vintage lockets. How many of us ever tried to get a picture to fit in our own? I had the worst time cutting that picture up to get it to fit. My locket always stayed empty.
And then charm jewelry came into my life. I still have charm bracelets from my childhood, my daughter has several too! Nowadays it seems you can walk into any store and buy a charm bracelet already made. What is the fun in that? Whatever happened to picking your own charms out?
And who remembers these:
Oh, I had one! I wish I still did! What fun were these? I remember how the chain snapped together and everything!
Face it, all of us love the idea of collecting pieces that represent the things we love and what girl doesn't love jewelry?! Whether it be a tiny gold locket or a plastic bear that clips onto a pink plastic chain.
Fast forward to now. The first time I heard of origami owl, I had no idea. NONE. When I saw my first locket, I immediately wondered how the name came to be since it had nothing to do with origami! Be honest-you all totally thought the same thing. I ordered my first locket-a medium silver and lots of charms! Then I put myself on the waitlist to become a designer-I didn't even wait for my locket to show up!
My plan was to just run the website and that was it. When my kit arrived-it felt like Christmas morning. I had sold the whole kit before it arrived, because let's face it, everyone loves O2! Shortly after signing up, I realized I wasn't going to just run a website, I had party bookings and girls on my team and it took off!
The most important thing to me was that I LOVED it. I love this jewelry, I love this company, and I love putting together lockets for my customers because someone created that piece from the heart. It's not a pre-made charm bracelet that you can buy in a store. You have to create it and it comes from the heart.
Over the years the pieces have changed but the idea has stayed the same. You put in your locket what you love. Whether it's a picture, a lock of hair, a pink plastic chain with a bunch of cute, junky charms, or a glass piece with lots of sweet charms inside.
Women love jewelry. Women love to talk about themselves (we all do!). What better way to show off the things you love than with Origami Owl? I am so blessed to be on this journey with women I adore. I am so blessed to have this in my life because it came at a time when I was down and out and completely depressed. I finally get a degree and hundreds of resumes later and there was no job for this gal. Not in this city of mine. My husband was skeptical, and after I paid for a trip to Vegas for our daughter for Cheer-he was shocked.
Whatever your story is, whatever pieces of jewelry your past holds, cherish!
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