I originally bought this necklace last year at J. Karma here in Old City – a Pagliei Insignia charm from their Waxing Poetic line. I wanted a cool necklace to wear every day that was not your typical boring initial pendant. When I went into the store to purchase a gift for someone else, I happened upon these and left with something for my friend and this necklace for myself. (Side note: splurge on yourself once in a while.)
When we were getting ready to head to Greece for 3 weeks at the end of last year with my husband’s family, I wanted to carve out a couple of hours to have a girl’s lunch with my mom-in-law (Constance) & 2 sisters-in-law (Leslie & Barb). I love (repeat: LOVE) my husband’s family and am a member of the fortunate few that have the coolest in-laws EVER. So you can imagine how excited I was to be able to have some alone time sans testosterone with 3 ladies I think the world of. I immediately went back to J. Karma and purchased 3 more pendants (C, L, & B), wrapped them beautifully and packed them safely in my suitcase.
I promote doing things like this with girlfriends…or in this case the girls in my family. I live in Philly, PA, Mom lives in Portland, OR, Leslie lives in California near LA, and Barb lives in Key West, FL. We are pretty much in the 4 corners of the U.S. but I somehow feel that symbolic items like this somehow connect me with them because we all now share the same necklace. Anyway…here we all are at our lunch sporting our necklaces – on the edge of paradise at the Volcano View Villas on the cliff of the dormant volcanoes in Santorini, Greece. Could there be a more perfect setting for me to give my heartfelt gifts of Girl Power?
L to R: Constance, Leslie, ME, Barb
