December

Uplifting, Warming, and Nostalgic 

The December Necklace is a festive, luminous, completely alive piece that honors the most expansive and most personally resonant meaning in the holiday collection: all that uplifts through the season — not a single quality or a specific tradition, but the whole, warm, completely alive experience of everything that lifts the spirit in December: the lights on the tree, the sound of the bells, the warmth of the gathering, the particular, extraordinary quality of a month that takes the darkest time of year and fills it, completely and generously, with more light and more warmth and more genuine human connection than any other month on the calendar. Deep red, rich green, and shimmering silver beads come together around a Christmas tree charm with bell accents at approximately 16 inches in the most complete and most vivid expression of the season. Available in an approximately 16 in length.

Design & Materials

• Christmas tree charm — for the most beloved symbol of the season's uplifting spirit; the tree that stands at the center of the December home and gathers the family around it, that holds the ornaments and the lights and the memories of every Christmas it has ever been part of, and that makes every room it is in feel more alive, more warm, and more completely, beautifully December
• Bell accents — for the sound of the season's joy ringing out; the bells that announce December's arrival and ring its gladness across the winter air — the particular, bright, completely irresistible sound of a month that has something extraordinary to celebrate and is not the least bit shy about celebrating it
• Red beads — for the warmth and generosity of a season that uplifts with everything it has; the deep, vivid red of December at its most giving — the color of the warmth that the season pours out freely and completely, to everyone within reach, because December is the month that understands that the most uplifting thing in the world is a warmth that is shared
• Green beads — for the life and hope that uplift through the darkest season; the rich, enduring green of a month that decorates the world with the most beautiful reminder that life and light are always, even in the deepest winter, still completely, beautifully present — and that the most uplifting thing about December is not just the celebrations but the promise they carry
• Silver beads — for the luminosity and shimmer of a season that makes everything more beautiful; the shimmering, clear silver of December light — the particular, magical quality of a month that makes the ordinary world glow with the most extraordinary light, as if the season itself has decided that everything deserves to be a little more luminous, a little more beautiful, and a little more completely alive
• Approximate length: ~16 in — a collarbone length that keeps the Christmas tree charm and the bells close, exactly where the uplifting spirit of December has always, completely lived
• Handcrafted with care by Amelia Heir Art Designs

The Meaning Behind It

All that uplifts through the season — it is one of the most expansive and most personally resonant meanings in the entire collection, because what uplifts in December is different for every person and yet somehow, miraculously, the same. It is the music that starts playing in the stores and makes you feel, for a moment, like a child again. It is the smell of the tree and the warmth of the lights and the particular, extraordinary feeling of a home that has been decorated with love and care and the beautiful, carefully tended traditions of every Christmas that came before. It is the gathering of the people you love most in the world around a table that is fuller and warmer and more completely alive than it is at any other time of year. It is the particular, quiet, completely real magic of a month that takes the longest nights of the year and fills them with more light than any other season — that takes the coldest time of year and makes it the warmest, that takes the darkest month and makes it the most luminous, and that does all of this not through any single tradition or any single celebration but through the accumulated, generous, completely alive spirit of everything that uplifts. December is a necklace for the ones who feel it — who are uplifted by the season in the most complete and most personal way — and for everyone who loves them and is grateful, every December, for the particular, warm, completely irreplaceable gift of sharing the most uplifting month of the year with someone who loves it as completely as they do.

A perfect gift for Christmas, winter, or any occasion that calls for celebrating someone whose love of December — whose joy in everything that uplifts through the season — makes the most wonderful time of the year even more wonderful for everyone around them.

Every order arrives with a signature gift box, ready to give (example shown below the product)