Monday, December 20, 2010

Staci's Favorite Necklace

Staci Beauchamp is an energetic mother of four (the oldest in college and the youngest in middle school) who has at one time or another worn most of the hats in our wholesale division:  shipping manager, customer service, booth design, website management, and jewelry production and design.  She is our go-to person for clever problem solving; if we have somehow painted ourselves into a corner (hey, it happens), we often look to Staci to figure a way out. 

Most surprising fact about Staci?  Though she looks petite, she is capable of driving a six-wheel pick up truck and enormous horse trailer from Louisiana to Wyoming for the national rodeo (all of her kids participate in local and regional rodeos).  She and her husband Russell live on a nearby farm with their kids, four dogs, five horses, a pen of chickens and the occasional 4-H pig.

Staci's favorite Grandmother's Buttons piece is our mother-of-pearl button necklace/bracelet, the 01-BN199S.  She loves it because:  "It's so light weight and versatile--I can wear it with all sorts of necklines, or remove the bottom part and wear it as a charm bracelet.  It reminds me of the dresses my mother made me when I was a child--all those beautiful, real mother-of-pearl buttons!" 

We actually find these buttons in just the sort of tins and boxes Staci's mother and grandmother used to keep their loose buttons in.  Each is a little one-of-a-kind button collection of its own.

4 comments:

  1. No wonder it is her favorit! It is so pretty! Great blog.

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  2. Love this necklace. Can you share what size of chain necklace and loops worked best?

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  3. Sylvia - The bracelet is 7 1/2 inches long with toggle closures on the bracelet and the extender both. The extender is 8 1/2 inches, so that when you wear the bracelet with the extender, you end up with a 16 inch necklace. You can really make the extender any length you want to lengthen or shorten the necklace. We used fairly large chain and jump rings. Good luck!

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