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Why I am embracing my never-ending chins

Okay.. So I just put this photo and this article out into the blogosphere.  Embarrassing yes, but let’s embrace our middle-aged-ness!  I hope that after reading the article (click here)  you all are inspired to own your age no matter how old you maybe. Or rather own your body, your voice, and all that is YOU!

By Amy Boggs

Dear Jen,
I love all of mr showthelove pieces, but especially my magic lantern. I get to pick up Ben today for the holidays. So grateful.
Sending joy to you and yours for the holidays and beyond.
Love,
Amy

Printed with permission from S.R.

I wanted to reach out. I just ordered one of your beautiful bracelets for my mother for Christmas. I live in Chapel Hill, NC and am friends with MJ! She wears your bracelet all the time and I have always admired it. My mother is currently battling Stage 4 Metastatic breast cancer (and doing very well, actually) and I, too, had a little hiccup with breast cancer recently. We have all had to be so strong. I love, love, love your bracelet and am so excited to give it to my mom for Christmas. Thank you!

Show The Love is happy to be featured in Mash-Elle’s holiday gift guide! Our Flower of the Universe, Tiny Wonder Star and Astonishing Light necklaces make the perfect stocking stuffers.  For Teens, Our Feed the Wolf necklace is recommended in Fairy Tale Traveler’s Teen Gift Guide.

For more inspirational jewelry gift ideas, checkout Ari’s gift guide here.

Can you imagine running for your life and waking up the next day to learn that you lost your home and everything in it down to your underwear drawer?
The fire victims lost so much more than their undies.  They lost their homes and their community and even worse, some lost friends and family. Our hearts and minds are with the victims of the California Fires.  We feel so helpless and are hoping that by donating funds we can make it a little easier for victims to claim their new normal. After all it is our duty as fellow Californians. Thank you for helping us help them.

40% of Proceeds from showtheLOVE.com Go to CA Fire Victims
Use Code CAFIRE at checkout*

*Valid for the month of November 2018
Donations Going to GlobalGiving

November 6th is right around the corner and in order to make our democracy work, we must get out and vote! The Voter Participation Center is doing just that and with our support we can help them make sure everyone gets to the polls!

Shop from today until November 1st 2018 and you will get 20% off on your purchase and we will donate 20% of the purchase to the VPC. Just use code VPC20 at checkout!

By Lauren

I sent your tree necklaces to my hiking group in Malaysia.  The ladies are from Australia, South Africa, India, Portugal, Honduras, New Zealand and USA.   They alll share love of trees and love of your jewelry!!

By: Karen W.

We just completed a series of workshops with 80, 16 year olds in the UK who are prepping for their fist major national exams.
After 968 student interactions and meeting their parents we are done.
Our aim? To enable them to recognise their unique strengths, talents and approach this challenge with fierce confidence.

Feed the Wolf was a foundational coaching theme for us and a powerful learning trigger for them.
The story led them to explore their self doubts and self belief through the lens of positive and negative thoughts and actions.

Today, we have 80 young adults moving forward in their lives with this story embedded in their hearts and minds.

So fortunate to have met Jen Pleasants when I was pregnant with my first wolf cub.
So fortunate to know her and – through her creativity and passion – to inspire the next generation.
Wearing my wolf with pride and love..

Thank you Jen for showing the love

Astonishing Light Necklace

By Jen P.

This week is National Suicide Prevention week.  Why am I telling you this?  For starters, I myself suffer from depression and have at times wanted to end my own life.  Luckily, with great support and the right diet and medications, I am now in a good place and am able help others who suffer from the same.  I counsel young girls who like me, have a chemical imbalance that keeps them from thinking clearly and I try to show them how to ride the ups and downs and encourage them to ‘just keep swimming’ (one of my favorite Dory quotes).

In addition to having depression and wanting to destigmatize it by openly talking about it, I want to use my art to give others strength. showtheLOVE has offered a few pieces (featured below) over the years that are meant to inspire people to keep living and to live their best life.

Recently, I was asked to create a piece to call attention to depression in honor of a young girl who died of suicide in our community.  Her friends and family are participating in an event this weekend in San Francisco called Out of the Darknesswhere people walk all night into the sunrise and out of the darkness to show solidarity for those who suffer and to raise funds and awareness to fight suicide.  So I created a piece called ‘Astonishing Light‘ after the beautiful Hafiz quote, “I wish I could show you when you are lonely or in darkness the astonishing light of your own being”. The quote struck a chord with me and I hope it does with others who hear this message. A portion of the proceeds from this piece will benefit Out of the Darkness.

Meanwhile, if you or someone you know is mentally in a bad place there are so many new ways to get out of it and into the light.  Feel free to reach out to me if you want to hear more as I know a thing or two about this subject and genuinely want to help as I know that pain.

Astonishing Light

Imprinted with the words ‘Astonishing Light’ from the Hafiz quote, “I wish I could show you when you are lonely or in darkness, the astonishing light of your own being”, let this piece be your loving companion, a reminder to always have hope, to know that you are not alone, and that you are loved and worthy.

Stronger Than Fear

Stamped with the words ‘Stronger than Fear’, this piece is a reminder not to make decisions based on fear. Wear this piece and know that what is within you is stronger than what is in your way!

One Day At A Time

Recovery is hard. This piece is a great reminder to be gentle on your self and take it slowly, one day at a time. Sometimes getting well involves taking two steps forward and one step back and that is okay. Keep moving forward. With each new day brings new opportunity to heal and renew. A truly special piece that we hope brings much solace and the vision of total healing.

One of our customers sent us this image of her wearing our She Believed She Could ring next to her Semicolon tattoo.  It is so powerful as the semicolon represents the notion that ‘Your Story Isn’t Over Yet’. Project Semicolon, founded by Amy Bleuel, is an organization dedicated to the prevention of suicide. Read more about their work here.

What is your story? Tell us your story here.

By Karlis F.

I’ve never thought of myself as a necklace guy.  But when I saw “Feed the Wolf” and heard the story behind it, I immediately felt a little calling of the wild.  I now wear this wolf every day.  Most of the time it is under my shirt and not visible to anyone.  But I feel its power against my chest.  It reminds me that there are two wolves inside and it brings me regular moments of consciousness to feed the good wolf that fights for love, hope, serenity, humility, kindness, empathy, generosity, truth, and compassion.

By Olive Barrett, Life and Style Blogger www.olivebarrett.com

You can’t take my @showthelovejewelry  necklace off even if you tried!! Stamped with “WW” for Wonder Woman, it’s a reminder of the strong, powerful, capable woman I am! All of @showthelovejewelry is handmade with love locally in the USA by one of the most inspirational women I know! Support this company! Seriously! This isn’t just a regular ad where I pretend to love a company that I don’t really know, (truth comes out oops) I LOVE this company w all of my heart and y’all should too! I mean it! Check them out!

By Jen P.

This past year, I have been obsessed with buying t-shirts, posters or really any knick knacks with inspirational messages on them. I am just desperate to surround myself with positive vibes. Most especially I love to wear those messages close to my heart with the jewelry I choose, which is why I am so proud of our latest “Speak Your Truth” collection because the messaging is so powerful and uplifting. As you might know, I feel very strongly about why it is important to ‘Speak Your Truth’ as detailed in a previous blog post. Hoping you will be inspired to speak yours. Which of the following Speak Your Truth messages resonate with you?

Rise Up Mantra

“Seek to Understand, Always Take Sides, Watch Us Rise!”, we hope this piece helps you feel your power.

Ho’oponopono

Use this ancient Hawaiian mantra as a daily practice of reconciliation and forgiveness. Whenever you have negative thoughts or emotions, hold your necklace. Then repeat to yourself the words stamped on this piece:  “I’m sorry, Please forgive me, I love you, Thank you.”

Astonishing Light

Imprinted with the words of the Hafiz quote, “I wish I could show you when you are lonely or in darkness, the astonishing light of your own being”, let this piece be your loving companion, a reminder to always have hope, to know that you are not alone, and that you are loved and worthy.

Child of the Universe

Stamped with the first line of one of our favorite poems, The Desiderata, this necklace reminds us that “You are a child of the universe, no less than the trees and the stars”.

By Carol L. – This is my go to combination.  I love wearing these necklaces (Girl Power and Direction) as they make me feel strong and proud to be a woman.  As an active supporter of women entrepreneurs I know each piece represents love, creativity and positive energy.

We had a guest in the studio today that was really in awe of our process of how our jewelry is created.  They were surprised that in today’s world of computers, 3-D printing and digital imaging that our pieces begin as and idea and a lump of clay.  As a sculptor, I can’t imagine doing it any other way. I love working with clay and using my hands to shape it into anything I dream up.  I must admit, it is much easier for me to make bigger things, like the bust I made of my husband (see photo below), than it is to make tiny pieces of jewelry, but I enjoy it none the less.

Anyway, back to the process– one of the reasons our jewelry is so unique is that it is made with actual human energy, creativity and love–it is handcrafted or handsculpted and has a story.  I like to imagine that if you were to find one of our pieces buried in the ground, and dig it up, you would not know if it was made today or from hundreds or thousands of years ago– made before the age of machines, when artists created with their hands when there was beauty in imperfection.  Our inspirational, handcrafted jewelry is unlike anything you can buy anywhere and not only does it have an authentic artisanal look and feel, the inspirational messages we give each piece have a real connection to the wearer.   When I create, I add love and good energy to the pieces and I feel like once the pieces are fired and comes out of the kiln they become magical talismans, and from the stories that people send in about how the pieces inspire them, it is hard not to believe this is true!

I have been thinking a lot about what do I stand for? Who am I if I am not speaking my truth and speaking up for those who are unable to speak up for themselves?

My strength to speak up comes and goes depending on how I am feeling each day.  Some days I can shout it from the roof tops (or post it on Facebook) and other days I would be happy to stay silent in fetal position under the covers.  Though more and more I am struck by how hard it is for people to find the strength to speak their truth.  This Elie Wiesel quote is always with me and has inspired our latest collection that is coming out in a few weeks– aptly named the ‘Speak Your Truth’ collection.  I hope that by wearing our truths around our necks we will find the strength to speak up more often.

 “We must take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented. Sometimes we must interfere. When human lives are endangered, when human dignity is in jeopardy, national borders and sensitivities become irrelevant. Wherever men and women are persecuted because of their race, religion, or political views, that place must – at that moment – become the center of the universe.” –Elie Wiesel

What do you stand for? We would love to know! Tell us at showthelove@showthelove.com.

xoxo jen p.

By Dr. Zara:

This inspirational and uplifting piece is my muse! It’s an everyday reminder of my purpose while “all stars are aligned“, a unique expression of harmony and order. Its more then a piece of jewelry, it’s a symbol of harmony, self love, giving love and being it!

The stars are aligned diamond necklace

By: Katherine L,  Dream Work Specialist:

My favorite piece of STL jewelry is my Phoenix pendant. I love this piece as it was given to me by a very special friend just after I survived cancer treatment and was fighting my way back to health. Each time I put it on it makes me feel like a bad-ass… empowered and capable of beating the odds and strong. It is a reminder that out of the ashes rises beauty and strength. While I have a lot of “more valuable” jewelry, it is the heart and soul in this inspirational piece that I will value and cherish forever.

For More info on Katherine and her Dream Work Consulting click here.

By: Amal Maher, Cofounder/VP Sales, Momentum Microsystems, Inc.:

STL Inspiration jewelry simply makes me happy! One of my favorite pieces is the “Stars Are Aligned” necklace and I always wear it when I want to feel a little extra empowerment…and it is a beautiful piece as well! I feel happy and proud when I wear STL jewelry – part of my personal statement of being positive, energized, believing, and balanced (keeping the zen within)…

Happy Birthday America!  What a mess we find ourselves in this year! Normally when I make my Fourth of July berry pavlova, I make the berries all aligned and in the design of our flag.  This year I feel a more jumbled pavlova coming on.  One that communicates our country’s chaos on one end, and on the other end, one that is hopeful as expressed by the mixing of the red and the blue together — a pavlova that represents connection with all people despite race, religion, sex or political party.  While I am indulging in my Independence Day dessert I will be manifesting this dream.  After all, no matter who we are, we all dream of a better future for our children even if we disagree on how to get there. #GodBlessAmerica #Inspriation

For a link to this yummy recipe, click here.

Back by popular demand, our You Are Meant To Be tiny earrings are back in stock!  Easy earrings to wear day and night these arrow tip earrings were designed by 7 year old Josie. She says, “You are who you were meant to be and all of your parts are beautiful.” As the arrow tip is pointing to different parts of your body, you are meant to rejoice in being YOU!  # inspirational jewelry

showtheLOVE is happy to announce the launching of our new site!  Now it is easier to navigate as you can search by sentiment and the design is cleaner and easier on the eyes ( big shout out to Jenny K. our webmaster)!  We will be updating our collections weekly so please check back every once in a while to see what is new or sign up for our latest and greatest newsletter at bottom of  our homepage!  We are committed to offering inspirational jewelry to uplift the wearer and to donating to charities to help make the world a better place.  Thank you for making that dream possible! We are all in this together!  #WearThisAndDoGreatThings!

showtheLOVE is heartbroken at the stories of the children that have been separated from their families.  This month we are donating $25 from every sale of inspirational jewelry on our site to Comfort Cases to provide the children with a bit of comfort while the government attempts to reunite the kids with their parents.

I am so grateful for all of the people that showed up to support our charity trunk show this past week. We were able to raise $10,000 with the sale of our inspirational jewelry for the fire fighters who had lost their homes in the Northern California fires.     THANK YOU ALL!!!

I am so excited to be working with my dear friend Ariana! She is smart, strong and beautiful inside and out and will bring much needed organization to our little inspirational jewelry business!  I look forward to our next year together as we work to raise money for charity while bringing tiny bigs of inspiration to the world!

By Karen: I’m not one to be overly thoughtful about fun and current outfits but since I travel back and forth from NY to LA (& occasionally some pleasure trips abroad) I should at least look like I made a little effort. Thanks to Show the Love, all my outfits are ramped up to a whole other level with one or two beautiful accessories. A simple dress, jeans and t- shirt or a plain romper are suddenly transformed into a funky and hip outfit that I can wear anywhere – Showing the Love in a way that is meaningful to me!

By Karmella:  Ubuntu is my word for 2017. Jen was kind enough to make her Ubuntu necklace into a bracelet so I could wear it continually. As I go through my day, it easily, and beautifully, reminds me that my humanity is linked to everyone else’s humanity. It informs the thoughts I think, the actions I take, and the words I speak.

By: Jocelyn Mangan

I bought my first “She Believed She Could So She Did” necklace when I first discovered it through Jen. I loved the message and wore it proudly. Last year my mom had to have two knee replacements and was facing a tough year of very little travel and activity, two things she loves. My mom is also a lover of jewelry and over the years, has come to acquire a few pieces, so giving her a necklace and getting her to wear it is not easy. However, when she got this one, the message resonated so strongly with her, and she wore it every day that year and would often refer to it as a reminder to be strong when times were not easy. I am happy to report that she has two new knees, is as active as ever, and still wearing it every day.