The Locket Sisters

08/14/2026

We first shared this brand new locket with you back in March, and then that night two dudes broke in to our studio and stole all our Teardrops, plus a lot of other beautiful things.

For me personally, that crime was the third violating event in just two months. All three creating pivots and redirections and urgency that required me to sit inside incessant discomfort, and invited me to lean in harder to the Locket Sisters, to my family, to my community.

I can tell I’m a starting to exit whatever that seven-month stint of chaos was, and enter the softer one that only churning can create, as it chips away at sharp edges and gripping and fear until, finally, a release — creating surrender in even the harshest conditions.

But the thing I’m learning about surrender is that it’s also somehow the path of least resistance. To get here, to this part of me within, I find myself returning to love again, and again, and again. It is the hardest thing I do — and the easiest.

This is the Teardrop Locket: Something beautiful and magnificent, tiny but heavy, underrated yet magnetic — a little locket that holds it all. The thing within that keeps us going.

Whatever path you’re navigating, may you, too, keep going forward.

- Allyssa

07/31/2026

I did an interview with the Mother Chapter on motherhood and building the Locket Sisters. Here it is.
- Allyssa

For Allyssa Woodford Hughes, a locket is not just jewelry, but also a way to carry the people, moments and versions of motherhood we never want to lose.

07/30/2026

I love that we do this. It’s a fun report to pull after each month passes to see how many more trees we get to sponsor on behalf of all the reasons you wanted a locket 🌲🍃

07/27/2026

We made a set number of arrows for Fletcher’s community last winter, which means we only have a limited amount left. Nonetheless, I’m certain they’ll find their way to the right people who could use a reminder that the light paves the way forward.

07/25/2026

I’d wear this photo of my kids from ten years ago in any shape.

07/24/2026

“For me. Family pics. My daughter and my husband have passed away.”

07/23/2026

I spend way too much time thinking about how lockets were made centuries ago. The metalwork, the photography, printing in a dark room. Fascinates me.

07/21/2026

I’ve always loved making jewelry and my sister always wanted a locket to hold her kids when she was traveling as a model. Back in 2016, we were running a photography studio together. She asked me to figure out how to make a modern locket with the photo work done for her, and make it kinda waterproof too. I did what she told me to do from a scrappy workbench in my unfinished basement during little open pockets of time.

Then a year or so later she heard me tell a photo client how my then-3-year-old daughter was offering her locket to preschool classmates who were missing their parents, because it was comforting to her when she missed her Dad and I. My sister pulled me aside and said “we gotta do lockets” and I knew what that meant. What I didn’t know all those years ago was how much these small pieces of jewelry would mean to the people we make them for. I also didn’t have an imagination grand enough to believe it would grow into something so beautiful, so nourishing. It is such a sincere honor that people choose us to make their lockets. Thank you thank you thank you.