After designing the Father's Legacy Pendant, I started to wonder what would the Mother's version look like? The whole time I was constantly debating about how the Father's Pendant would look and how it was in relation to other men's jewelry. My problem with the Father's Pendant was men's jewelry was very simple and similar to each other, not much risk taking so to speak. The problem with the Mother's Pendant was exactly the opposite. There is an amazing amount of designs in women's pendants. I was going to be hard to create something new. Something that looks very different. You have all sorts of designs when it comes to women's jewelry, from the very decorative, to jewelry that is very simple. I had to create something unique to stand out from the rest. I decided to go way back when designing the mother's pendant, back to the stone age so to speak.

So instead of the lion, a symbol often used in crests, I opted for the more unusual, more gemometric sword. I didn't just choose a sword because it was a sword but because of what the sword represents. The sword represents protection, so it symbolizes the beauty of what is most close to our hearts, our family. The diamond represents purity and strength, and below the diamond is where the children's stones would be set. Each stone would represent each child, similar to what family jewelry does now, but instead of birthstones, only precious rubies and sapphires are used. A ruby for each daugher and a sapphire for each son. The sheild and sword are handcrafted in 18k gold. I designed Legacy to show meaning, to have something that your family could be proud of, not like the often tacky family jewelry that is already out there. This is something fathers, men, should be proud of wearing. Hopefully this father's day us dad's out their can have something we can be proud of something that symbolizes our family.

The father's pendant was finally taking shape. The pendant was now going to be a sheild shape, looking like a family crest. The crest symbol is important because of the tradition that it shows. On the shield I was originally going to put a lion on, but that proved to be too average, not really a design at all. Men's jewelry tends to be very geometrical, and I wanted this to look different, but not that different. I felt that putting the lion on the sheild would alienate a lot of people who would love to wear a meaningful peice of jewelry that represents their family. I say this now, but in all acutallity I had the lion on the shield for about 3 months. The sheild instead carried a sword.

As you see I haven't posted anything in a while, the computer crashed then lots of other stuff, but no use in explaining. Back to the design, what I seem to do way to often is overthink things. I will make things so detailed that often it loses the meaning or focus of what you want people to get out of it. One design idea that I think is great is the new hand vaccum that looks like a cone. Finally something you can put in your home and use. I have no idea how well this works, but the idea is great. When creating Legacy I wanted the family to come through, I wanted you to feel the tradition. I studied and looked at ancient designs and classic designs from all different cultures. The thing that really stood out to me was the crest, it was the family, so I felt that this traditional symbol should be used some how. I decided to use the sheild not only because it is a crest, but also a symbol of protection. Men's jewelry too often follows simple geometric shapes, the Legacy collection, stretches that simple idea of a geometric shape and makes us feel, it gives us a little more.