Spring is here. Can you sense it? I'm always so caught off guard when I feel this way every year. So excited for the warmth and sunshine finally. The boys are able to start playing at the park instead of just inside, and have been jumping on the trampoline. Elias is big enough to jump this year! He will turn 2 years old next week which also has me feeling surprised.
Even these photos we just took of my friend Elizabeth and her little boy are astonishing to me. We were both pregnant at the together and gave birth with the same midwives here in Boulder. I almost fell over when I saw how much her little boy had grown over the winter.
Remember your mom's friend who would say "Oh my! You have gotten so big!" And you (as your eight year old self) wanted to roll your eyes at her? Yes, I have officially turned into that person. I say something similar every time I see my friends with their kids around town.
Daylight savings and all the recent glorious sunlight made me pull out my own gold rim necklace like the ones that Elizabeth is wearing in these photos.
I was reminded that right before the holidays we were sneaky and put it on the website without much fanfare. So I am finally getting around to giving it the attention it deserves.
It's such an elegant piece that we love it for it's versatility. For a long time we had customers asking for us to do a mixed metal piece but we just weren't happy with the prototypes we tried out. With extensive research Sahra finally found the right gold rim and now when we solder the rim onto the sterling silver disc, the result is so pretty.
You can order with a sterling or gold chain. And you can order just a single disc too, which is such a fun way to add to your existing Hot Mama necklace.
You can buy it here on our website.
Let's give one away! We will send you a necklace with a sterling chain and one fourteen karat gold rim disc with your choice of custom stamping.
Leave a comment below and tell us how you are welcoming spring. Don't forget to tell us your email when you comment.
Blog it, tweet it (@hotmamajewelry) and facebook on YOUR page for extra entries!
We will post the winner next week. Good luck!
I am welcoming spring by LOVING the extra hour of daylight at night! When I drive home from work I am encouraged and HAPPY!:)
ReplyDeleteThis morning I took my dog, Bowser, for a 2 mile walk before work. The bird chirps were calling to us and the smells of "spring coming" were all around. I just LOVE the anticipation of spring! As the snow thaws and Mother Nature's mess appears I EMBRACE the mud and skip through it in my poke-a-dot rain boots:) WELCOME SPRING!
~Alicia Hoge~ Hogepants@yahoo.com (High school friend of Elizabeth)
I am welcoming spring by celebrating my son Joaquin's birthday on the first day of spring. How fortuitous!!! As well, moving into a new house and getting our new batch of baby chicks and ducks!!! Nothing says spring like birth.
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I think you picked two beautiful models!!!!
ReplyDeleteThe flowers are starting to peep out of the cold gray earth. the fresh colors add that little bit of happiness to your soul, but it is looking at my daughter as she explores and finds the new sprouts. She is so excited and curious about this sweet time of year. Happy Spring to all!
ReplyDeleteLaura Ginther lauraginther119@gmail.com
love the new gold rimmed necklace - beautiful! i celebrate the start of spring by dusting off the bikes in the garage! :)
ReplyDeleteI am celebrating spring with my 17 month old twins! It's so exciting cause this year they are able to run around outside. We are having an absolute blast this year playing all day outside. They are so funny to watch. They still aren't sure about the whole grass thing. It Peyton falls she tries to get up without touching it. I taught them to brush off their hands if they fall and Chace is hilarious about it. He's brushing off his hands so hard that it looks like he's slapping the air. He's just so excited though. I love these necklaces! I have the original one and have told several of my friends cause they all love it. I would like another different one to show off my babies names in a fashionable way!
ReplyDeleteI am welcoming spring by going out in the garden with my 10-year-old daughter and planting seeds! It may still snow, but that is perfect for cool-weather lettuces and spring onions. As winter wanes and spring waxes, I love the feeling of unfurling like a seedling as the days get longer and warmer.
ReplyDeleteWe will be welcoming Spring with a new baby! April is seeming very far away at the moment. Also can't wait to plant flowers and the garden to watch even more life grow over spring and summer!
ReplyDeleteI had my baby in December, so I can't wait to get out of the house more often! We'll celebrate spring by taking more walks around the city, going for runs with the baby and sitting in the park with friendswatching the baby have his very first taste of spring!
ReplyDeleteWould love to win this necklace!!! I am welcoming spring by getting my toes in the spirit (ie. pedicure) and buying a few pairs of really cute sandals!!! I love the springtime!!!
ReplyDeleteI LOVE spring! It has my creative juices flowing. I'm celebrating by riding my bike to work, opening the windows of my studio, and taking pictures of every spring-ish thing I come across. Thanks for a great giveaway!
ReplyDeletePS- I'm posting this in my blog at www.reloveprojects.blogspot.com :)
I had a baby on Valentines Day, so this year I am celebrating spring by quietly and deeply listening to the sweetly singing birds outside while holding my lovely newborn! Lynn@brighterdayfloraldesign
ReplyDeleteLove your new gold rimmed necklace! I will be celebrating spring by packing up my 3 children under 3 and getting outside! Since our littlest was born Dec 26th, we are just getting good at getting us all out. It's time to get out and enjoy those chirping birds!
ReplyDeleteSpent a week in coastal California and that warming sunshine coupled with these radiant photos are making me ACHE for Boulder and my friends there.
ReplyDeleteNo birds chirping here...a few pigeons gurgling and the roar of the lumbering street sweeper, at last able to navigate the mucky streets.
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I'm welcoming spring by sitting here watching the 12" of snow we had last weekend melt away and listening to the birds chirp. So excited that winter is over, and waiting to see my daffodils! sammiejanL40 at aol dot com
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I celebrate spring each year with my kid's birthdays. Living in AZ we don't really ever have a pretty blooming spring but knowing that my kids are about to turn 4 and 6 reminds me of the two best spring blessing I have every received!
ReplyDeleteI sure would LOVE to receive one of these AMAZING necklaces!=)
sarah strohl brown (at) g mail (dot) com
I am welcoming spring by counting down the days until baseball season and the day the local ice cream place opens! (slplsnstle@yahoo.com)
ReplyDeletei already bought potting soil and am about to start flower seedlings
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Here in Chicago, to celebrate spring, I took both my 2 kids for a walk to the park(my 4 month-old-daughter's FIRST ever)!
ReplyDeleteI just had my second child and have been searching and searching for the perfect, unique and stylish necklace for 2 kids. Not easy to find, this one is JUST what I've been looking for!!
Check out my blog post about your contest here: http://www.findinglalaland.com/2011/03/hot-mama.html
My email is: lauren_schiff@yahoo.com
Please pick me! Pretty please with a cherry on top. :)
TO celebrate spring my girls and i are planting FLOWERS, yeah spring is finally here!
ReplyDeleteI have two little girls 2 & 8 months. I have been looking for a MIMI necklace, one for my mom with the girls names on it. She would just ADORE these! She is very much into the mixed colors. Not to mention i want one now. I will send the link to the hubby:) Wow they are so beautiful! Would be so nice to win!
My Email: katie.gierke@gmail.com
my blog: littlegirlstoo.blogspot.com come check us out:)
I'm welcoming Spring by committing to a 1/2 marathon race!
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Spring is definitely in the air and I have been enjoying taking my 2 little ladies outside for walks and trips to the park. Its also been a huge motivation in getting back to regular exercise. I can almost smell the suntan lotion :)
ReplyDeleteMy email: emily.graeff@yahoo.com
Love the necklaces!!!
I am celebrating spring by welcoming home my hero,my husband! He will finally be able to meet his beautiful baby girl :) So glad that he will be here to see her walk her first steps among the fresh cut grass and beautiful flowers that are now popping up!
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We are celebrating spring by taking walks outside. Long winter here in the Midwest so spring can't come soon enough.
ReplyDeleteLove your two tone necklace and the ability to add future children.
Fingers crossed I am lucky to win one.
lindsay.sharp@hotmail.com
Living in Maine gives Spring a whole meaning. With the snow still melting and the first calls of red winged black birds gracing our ears, my two little ones rip off their clothes and sklither outside stark naked for their ritualistic welcome to Spring. Yup. Naked. I shiver as I watch them, arms flapping, legs churning, feet muddy--absorbing all their joy into my soul. After many months of deep snow and sub zero night temps, the sun has never felt so delicious nor childrens' laughter seemed so pure.--Erika Hemphill e2hemphill@yahoo.com
ReplyDeleteI am celebrating spring by smelling my 2-year-old who now has that unmistakeable kid/outside/dirt/mud scent. Love it, it's Eue de Childhood.
ReplyDeleteChamilton4853@yahoo.com. Thanks for the opportunity!
The sun came out this afternoon after 24 hours of hard rain hit LA. My two year old and I celebrated Spring by taking a puddle walk and looking at the flowers and plants that were so happy for both the sun and the rain. He stomped in the puddles with his fireman rain boots and we both laughed and then he sat in a puddle. He laughed I half cringed. So we celebrated Spring and partied our pants off!
ReplyDeleteI love your charms and definitely want one with our son's initial and then another in the late summer when #2 arrives!! Just in time to celebrate Fall!
meohmaya@gmail.com
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we are celebrating spring by teaching my son who to ride his bike with out training wheels and teaching my children how to have fun in the dirt by planting a garden.
ReplyDeleteI get constant compliments on my first necklace and would love to add this charm to my collection
rachbuchanan@gmail.com
My official welcoming of spring was putting on my gardening gloves and spending some stolen, solitary hours in our flower beds...and then relaxing on our porch swing with a blanket and a good book watching the birds return to or feeders. Difficult to ask for more perfect beginning to the season! :)
ReplyDeleteWe welcomed spring in by having Emily plant some seeds and some pansies. She had the most fun with the seeds and is seeing the fruits of her labor. She enjoys watering the seedlings every day in the window. She is having such a fun spring time.
ReplyDeleteSusan Hammond-shinkle67@hotmail.com