It’s called the living locket, and its charms reflect the essence of the woman wearing them. Andrea Mason embraced that idea so fully she is now designing and selling this unique, customized product as a sales representative for the social selling jewelry business Origami Owl. “I was automatically drawn to the locket,” Andrea says. “It’s personal.”
The lockets are transparent and, with a single glance, tell an individual’s life story through separately-sold, personalized charms, stones and metal plates placed inside. The tokens are themed for occupations, hobbies, music, sports, travel and heartfelt causes, among others, and can be mixed and matched to specifically describe who you are. Andrea is authorized by Arizona-based Origami Owl to design token combinations within the lockets, but to offer the full experience she hosts in-home parties where guests can design and purchase their own unique creations. She offers living lockets through her current inventory, her Facebook page and her website. She also sells wish lockets — adorable fortune-cookie versions of necklaces, with encouraging messages tucked inside charms.
Inspired by Origami Owl’s start — a 14-year-old girl with $350 in babysitting money began the business in 2010 — Andrea would like to team with her own daughter in the future. “I want to show her how to be an entrepreneur, and learn young,” says the Kentucky native, who’d operated scrapbooking and toy animal home businesses before finding Origami Owl. “To see me out there would give her insight into what it would be [like].”
Prices range from $20 for simpler styles to $38 for stainless steel and gold-plated necklaces. To arrange a home party, call 419-429-1695. For purchases, visit mason.origamiowl.com
