See Beauty Everywhere

Long ago, as I went through an intense healing journey that would last ten years, I created the hashtag: SeeBeautyEverywhere. This was my daily mantra, reminding me to see the beauty in everyday life. The gifts that come from the wound. The incomparable oasis on the other side of the desert. This is also Pearl medicine, and is the mantra I thought of when designing these one-of-a-kind South Sea Tahitian Baroque Fireball Pearl earrings with 14K Gold-Filled accents and Interlocking Circle Posts in intricately carved Gold Vermeil.  Pearls are magical WATER Elements that represent deep faith and trust. Pearls are formed when a tiny irritant, like a grain of sand, gets inside the sensitive inners of a mollusk. The mollusk begins to wrap the grain of sand in a coat of hard, shiny, nacre. It wraps it over and over, until a Pearl, so beautiful, and truly one of its kind, is made. This is the impetus behind my "In a Grain of Sand" Collection: a visual reminder of how something that begins as an