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Mother's Day Collection
This year, our Mother's Day Collection was inspired by a beautiful little girl named Marguerite, the niece and cousin of sweet friends here in Louisville. (And - by extension - getting to know Marguerite's mom and family in Louisiana has been a joy.) Though Marguerite was diagnosed with a brain tumor (DIPG) as a kindergartener and passed away just over a year ago at age 7, she brought so many people together in hope, love, courage and kindness, and her shining spirit continues to be a light - even for those who never had the joy of meeting her.The name Marguerite means "daisy," fitting since the flower is a cheerful reminder of the beauty that surrounds us and the hope that returns again and again each spring even after the cold of winter. As funding for research and trials are cut, and since May 17th is DIPG Awareness Day, bringing focus to childhood brain cancer, we thought it fitting to honor Marguerite and her loving family with a collection of three different small-batch daisy designs, each offering a portion of proceeds ($20 of each purchase price) to an organization called Tough2gether, founded by a mother who lost her own son to DIPG. With each daisy design, it's lovely to think of Marguerite's legacy and to contribute to helping families facing childhood cancer, offering hope, support, science-backed research, and resources along the way.
Shop all three daisy designs here.
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Spring Flings & Things
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Gifts for Mom
1. Little Ladies Necklace - For each necklace purchased, we teach an underprivileged child to make the same design to keep or gift to a caregiver in classes at local community centers.
2. Birthstone Charm Necklace - Customized just for mom with hand-wired gemstones of your choice and a vintage heart. (And on sale now!)
3. Vintage Scarf - Whether tied around a tote handle, wrist, or neck, Mom will find endless ways to wear one of our handpicked vintage designs.
4. A Year of Jewelry - An Elva Fields exclusive mailed to mom every other month!
5. Freshwater Pearl Vintage Bangle - A timeless classic getting serious magazine love lately (as seen in Justine, Essence, and Family Circle magazines.)
6. Statement Earrings - Our best-sellers! Lightweight, gorgeously golden, ready to wear with EVERYTHING...and under $50!
7. Vintage Tassel Earrings - Combining glamour (vintage Yves Saint Laurent? yes!) and fun (swinging silk!) these beauties are right on time.
8. What's In Your Jewelry Box? Kit - Let Mom mail in a treasured-but-unworn family heirloom from her jewelry box and collaborate with us on a design created just for her that features it!
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Mother's Day "Year of Jewelry" Subscription Box
Just in time for Mother's Day, we dreamed up our most fun gift-giving goodness yet: a subscription box of jewelry!
How does it work?
- Order the subscription and enter your email address at checkout, and the gift recipient's shipping information where indicated.
- Once we receive your order, we'll email to confirm your contact information AND the recipient's so we can be in touch along the way.
- The first gift, our vintage birthstone charm necklace, will arrive in time for Mother's Day, created especially for her with gemstones for each birth month that you chose for the design. (We'll handle that by email as well!)
- Five more gifts will arrive, one each in July, September, November, January, and March.
- A few weeks before each gift ships, you (or the recipient - again, your choice) will receive an email featuring the exclusive jewelry options for the next gift. You (or she) will select a style from the proposed designs that will arrive in the next gift box, wrapped and ready to enjoy.
- Should you prefer that we select each gift for the recipient, we're happy to do so and will simply send a gift every other month from our curated selections.
- We promise each gift will be such fun to receive, and it will be our sincerest desire to surprise and delight with every gift we send.
- Sound fun? Then hop on over to add the subscription to your shopping cart. Need a bit more information? Feel free to reach out - we're always happy to hear from you!
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Introducing: Original Art
I've always loved to paint. Perhaps, unlike cooking, it doesn't skip a generation. My mother is an artist, with a skill so innate I'd swear she was born with a paintbrush in her hand. Or, perhaps it does skip a generation here and there, now that I think about it. My grandmother was a great admirer, supporter, (and collector) of art, but not so keen on the making of it, insisting up until her final years that she was "still looking for her talent." My great-grandmother, however, adored painting, even taking classes throughout her life, and I love that the Elva Fields studio gallery wall shows off a floral still life painted by Elva Fields herself.
Somewhere along the line, though, despite my joy in putting brush to paper and canvas, I somehow--and maybe even subconsciously--determined that I had to choose between jewelry and painting as a career path. And, once jewelry was the choice, I convinced myself that any temptation to pursue painting as a business would be nothing short of disaster. Essentially, I built a wide, invisible, dividing-line wall between the two. I painted exclusively for fun: thank-you notes and postcards, gifts for friends, backdrops for photo shoots, doodling in the margins of to-do lists, and rainy-day painting with my daughters. And I've loved it.
But lately (as in the-last-three-years lately) I've felt a pull to put my painting out there on a larger scale, to a wider audience beyond friends and family. I largely ignored the instinct, mostly because I'm a huge chicken and also because I was following the unwritten rule I'd made for myself so long ago, and in addition to being a huge chicken, I'm also a very well-behaved rule follower. (Mostly.) I'm also, as it turns out, a gal who follows her heart...even in matters of business; in recent weeks, I've taken a closer look at my position on the separation of gems and paint and realized I could change my mind. Like an artist's palette, I'm seeing there are shades of gray between the black and white.
So, I've gathered a small collection of work to share for now--all original works on paper painted in gouache and watercolor that show the start of something new here at Elva Fields. Or, rather, something not-so-new but representative of a more full, vibrant, and--dare I say--authentic Elva Fields. How fitting that the collection makes its debut headed into Mother's Day weekend, an unintentional but timely tribute to the mothers and grandmothers who share and shared their gifts so beautifully with me, and, now with you.
Enjoy.
