Handmade Holiday Gift Guide • Day 1 • All that glimmers

Our Handmade Holiday Gift Guide is finally here! Find your new favorite shops and enjoy the exclusive discounts and gifts that you can only find in our gift guide.These independently owned businesses are run by strong and talented women. Feel good about shopping from all our featured shops in the guide this holiday season knowing that you are buying passion, hours of hard work, and a lot of love. 

Thank you, in advance, for supporting these businesses and shopping small!

Today we bring you our favorite jewelry shops! They create pieces that will make anyone swoon. Pick up something shiny for your mom, sister, niece, and yourself. Go on, we won't tell!

Brave Sunday
bravesunday.storenvy.com
Exclusive discount code: KVHOLIDAY15 for 15% Off
Instagram: @bravesunday 
Facebook.com/bravesunday
Gift Guide Giveaway: Hand formed 14k filled bar is filled with bright ruby red crystals. Finished with hand formed 14k gold filled ear wires.

Hecho Amano Jewelry
hechoamanojewelry.etsy.com
Exclusive discount code: SAVE5 for 5% Off
Instagram: @hechoamanojewelry
Facebook.com/hechoamanojewelry
Gift Guide Giveaway: Bracelet Set

"I'm Michelle, the owner, designer, and hands behind Hecho-A-Mano Jewelry! It all started when my husband and I lived in Costa Rica for 10 months. I learned how to make macrame jewelry and haven't been able to stop! My jewelry is inspired by the people, culture, and beauty that is Costa Rica. These string bracelets are "la moda" (the style) in Central America and I really hope to spread that love all over the world! Mix them, match them, wear them however you like, they really are one of the trendiest fashion items to have."

Redeemed Jewelry
hechoamanojewelry.etsy.com
Exclusive discount code: SAVE10 for 10% Off
Instagram: @redeemedjewelry
Facebook.com/redeemedjewelry
Gift Guide Giveaway: Go Be Love Necklace

Redeemed Jewelry is co-owned by Lara O'Brien & Barb Green. The inspiration for starting their business comes from Proverbs 3:3, "Let love and faithfulness never leave you. Bind them around your neck, write them on the tablet of your heart." Their mission is to create beautiful Scripture necklaces that will encourage and inspire those who wear them, gift them, or read them. To wear and pass on the blessing of God's word is their goal. 

The Joyful Jewelry Box

thejoyfuljewelrybox.etsy.com

Exclusive discount code: SHIPFREE for free shipping

Instagram: @thejoyfuljewelrybox

Facebook.com/thejoyfuljewelrybox Pinterest.com/thejoyfuljewelrybox

Gift Guide Giveaway: $30 Shop Credit

Lindsay Joy is the hands and heart behind The Joyful Jewelry Box, offering handcrafted vintage and bohemian pieces inspired by her namesake.

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Giveaway • Bon Vivant Design House

To be a bon vivant, one must enjoy the finer things in life. To Jen, owner of Bon Vivant Design House, that means good food and unique fashion. BVDH carries hand-stamped silverplate spoons (sometimes vintage, sometime antique!) and statement necklaces made with delicate lace from the 1960s. 

Many of the BVDH necklaces are inspired by Mad Men. Others are interpretations of Moulin Rouge cabaret fashion, circa 1889. As for the stamped flatware, Jen likes to have a little fun with the wording. As a proud geek herself, she enjoys stamping silver that fellow Harry Potter and Doctor Who fans will appreciate. She also loves yoga and wine, so there's probably a spoon or two celebrating those fine things as well!

Bon Vivant Design House creates all pieces by hand in a little studio tucked away on a peninsula in southern California.  

Enter to win 2 lace pendant necklaces from Bon Vivant Design House ($50 value)!!!

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A Week Of Giveaways

April 21-25

A Giveaway a Day!

We've had a super fun time celebrating April so far and the awesomeness continues next Monday-Friday with a giveaway EACH DAY! Right here, on the blog, we'll have a giveaway every single day to celebrate Jasmine's birthday. Wahoo!

Don't forget to follow us on instagram, pinterest, and facebook - we've been celebrating over there too!

Instagram Fundraiser for Savannah's Stolen Moment Campaign

Instagram Benefit Auction for

Savannah's Stolen Moment Campaign

@savvystolenmoment

April 14th 8am PST to April 15th 8pm PST

Organized and hosted by koco & viking @kocoandviking

About Savannah's Stolen Moment Campaign (from her dad)

"I'm sorry if this is very raw, but my baby girl died this morning.

Please believe me when I say that Savannah, who was 2-and-a-half, was loved every second that she was alive. My wife and I fed her the healthiest foods, gave her that extra-fancy milk with the DHA in it, enrolled her in a little gym class and showered her with countless hugs and kisses. As a dad, I practiced every day until I finally (mostly) figured out how to make pigtails. She was a healthy, happy child - this is not how things are supposed to end.

We're not sure what happened. We woke up this morning, and she did not.

If you've never dealt with loss, I sincerely hope that you never do. If you have, then you know the worst feeling is the sense of helplessness, of frustration. The only thing you can do, it seems, is admit that you have no control. And when you're a parent - the person who is supposed to be able to make everything better - that's a horrifying thing to admit.

If you've read this far, I thank you. I won't take up much more of your time.

One thing that does give me solace is that when "Savvy" was with us, we shared lots of unplanned memories with her. A surprise trip to an indoor playground, an unexpected cookie at Starbucks, a walk along the beach on a random Tuesday afternoon - and I came to refer to these as "Stolen Moments."

I'm feeling very powerless right now. But people have already begun asking how they can help, and in the days ahead I don't want a bunch of money to be thrown away on flowers. I'd recommend a charity for people to make donations in her honor, but I'm very weary of the way many charities take your money and use them to pay overhead. The only way I can handle this powerlessness, I figure, is with the power to give someone else joy.

So, here's my idea: If you'd like to make a donation in Savannah's name - any size - please do it here. And my dream is to take every penny of those donations, locate a special little girl somewhere in the world - and give her and her family the "Stolen Moment" that we'll never be able to make with our baby Savannah.

I will find a family somewhere - someone I have never met before and has no connection to anyone I know - and help them make a Stolen Moment. The only 3 requirements are that they have a little girl, that they very clearly love her, and that they don't have the financial means to typically do this sort of thing.

Perhaps we can send them to Disneyland, and get them the greatest hotel room ever. Perhaps we could fly them somewhere. I want to give some little person a moment with her Mom and Dad that she'll remember forever - a moment that they would never have without us doing this.

Any money raised above the costs of the "Stolen Moment" will be put into a college fund for that child.

After the Stolen Moment takes place, I'll ask that the family meet with my wife and I, show us all the pictures they took, and tell us every awesome detail. In the wake of this tragedy, I'm determined to create joy.

Savannah was too young for me to say that this is what she would have wanted. But I can tell you that this is what I would've raised her to believe was the right thing to do.

If you have read this far, but cannot make a donation, I completely understand. Thank you for listening.

But please, I ask that you do this for my Savannah, the girl I would give anything to have back in my arms right now: Hug your child tight, tell them that you love them. Every. Damn. Day.

And the next time your child wants to play with your phone, even though they have peanut butter all over their hands and will just delete all your apps and make the screen too bright and you don't know how to change it back...let them do it. And appreciate the fact that you're witnessing such beauty. As parents, it's the only thing we can do."

Generous Donations provided by...

Elev8

Bushel & Bobbin

This Little Bird

Nami Expressions

Bon Vivant Design House

Made by Amie

Kristen Jones, Aloette

Orange Umbrella Co.

Made by Layla

Little V Men

Cloud 9 Crochet

Koco & Viking

All Seamed Up

The Baby Bird Boutique

Magnificuffs

Lily Lane Crochet

April Lara, Jamberry

More Than Anything Jewelry

Miss Violetheart

Sweet Cello

Redeemed Jewelry

Creations by Kyra

Alley Cat and Co.

Little Peaces

June Bug's Momma

Needles and Strings

Norcal Art Glass

The Joyful Jewelry Box

Missys Treasurez

Burlap Blondie

Kate and Linny

We are thrilled to offer our Tree Carved Initials Necklace on the boutique deal site Kate and Linny! They're 40% off! What are you waiting for? Go.... now!

Display your love!

We hand carve each necklace with wood grain and hand paint them with our own process to make it look like real wood, no two are ever alike. The most common question we get is, “Where is the clay?” The entire heart is clay!

Share Love Giveaway

We are so lucky to have such creative + generous friends! 4 of us have come together to give one lucky winner some really awesome goodness. This giveaway is being held on Instagram @kocoandviking @thislittlebirdshop @kirstinkallal @scentsationalsoap. Everything is worth over $70 and you'll get it just in time for Valentine's Day! What are you waiting for? Head over to Instagram and enter!

Have an etsy or independent shop and want to get in on some promos? Email us at kocoandviking{at}gmail . com. We're always happy to help small businesses out!

Make sure to check out the participating shops and say Gracias!

This Little Bird Shop, Kirstin Kallal, Scentsational Soaps, and Koco & Viking.