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“If you are a dreamer, come in. If you are a dreamer, a wisher, a liar, a hoper, a prayer, a magic bean buyer.  If you are a pretender, come sit by my fire, for we have some flax golden tales to spin, Come in! Come in!”    ~Shel Silvertein

I am a hopeless dreamer, believer, wisher.  I believe in the magic of four leaf clovers, shooting stars and rainbows after a storm. Snapping wishbones, blowing stray eyelashes, and closing my eyes and wishing on birthday candles.  Right now the most perfect dandelions are round and full and ripe for the wishing all around our yard. My family has even given up calling them by their proper name and instead call them “wishers”.  I become childlike in the simple joy of picking those fat wishers and blowing my wish to the wind.  What i love even more is passing all this magic onto my children and watching them believe in simple everyday wonder.  What everyday magic have you captured?  Please share it here with us today.  

 In the spirit of wishing, I am honored to present my Wish necklace for Bel Kai Designs :The Shutter Sisters Capture Collection, now available for purchase.  I am so proud of this collaboration.  I wanted something personal yet universal for my design and I am so pleased with the end result.  Now have a wish to wear around my neck every day.

Continuing the celebration of Giveaway May, Bel Kai and I will be giving away 1 wish necklace.  All you need to do is leave a comment here by 12 midnight PST to be entered in a random drawing for a wish necklace of your very own.  

***CONGRATULATIONS to Karen the winner of the necklace!   Happy wishing Karen.  xo, Kristin

Comments

  4. Beautiful image! Thanks for sharing. Those little wishes and pieces of magic are what makes the world go round 🙂

  7. i love this photo of your kiddo and i especially love the photo of you on your blog. i’ll enter, although i never win anything! 🙂

  21. Kirstin, my goodness – such a beautiful necklace! You have the magic touch when it comes to capturing beauty, so it’s no surprise that the necklace is so breathtaking.

    I don’t have anything truly magical to share – I feel like I’m in a bit of a magic finding slump – maybe winning the necklace will help? 🙂

    xo,
    Carmen

  23. W onder
    I magination
    S haring
    H earts

    This is the magic i felt today. you do this everyday too.
    its lovely to find kindred spirits when they blow into your life, even if its for a moment
    may all your wishes come true
    *

  27. First, Kristin, congratulations on bringing such a beautiful necklace to fruition. As a long-time (and usually quiet) visitor to Shutter Sisters, it’s a delight to see your aesthetic shine through in this piece . I wear very little jewelry, and so I’m very selective, wanting what I wear to say something genuine about who I am. I confess that your necklace has truly touched me. What a joy and privilege it would be to wear it.

  29. I’ve been trying all spring to get a great dandelion shot. It’s been a lot harder than I thought it would be.

  34. what a beautiful necklace. wishing is magical, powerful…something that we all need a bit more of, i think!

  37. How perfect! Now you can conjure up a wishful moment by just touching your necklace. Wonderful!

  39. I love the wish necklace!! I am wishing and dreaming constantly and think that this is a perfect symbol of that!!

  40. Well I just blew on a dandelion and wished to win this necklace.
    love the dyptich shown on Shutter sisters "FLICKR" and the gorgeous necklace. Great images.

  46. Congrats Kristin!! It is great to get some wonderful news from you. This necklace is beautiful and a great addition to the designers collection. Good luck and keep wishing big!

  48. I am rediscovering the power of wishing and believing. I wished that this year would be my year. Magic is unfolding too. And it all began with a heartfelt wish.

    Lovely necklaces. Wishing for one 🙂

  51. i am so excited and happy for you. what a magical piece of jewelry. seeing it around your neck makes me smile. 🙂
    congrats, my sweet friend. ♥
    i’m crossing my fingers and my toes. 😉
    xo
    mary

  54. I LOVE the wish necklace! for a dear friend’s birthday, I gave her the "I am enough" necklace. It was just perfect:)

  57. have been over here blowing and wishing on dandilions all week! love love love this necklace! thanks for the chance to win…

  65. You know I’m a huge fan of your photos, and I’d love to wear this beautiful piece of art on my neck. Thanks for the give-away!

  70. I love this necklace!!! So pretty. I wish for many things and have learned to start doing about them instead of just wishing….

  73. I LOVE that photo. I just recently got a new camera and am trying to learn about what it can do. I’d love to know how you got that shot if you are able to pass on the info. Lens, speeds, etc. Thanks so much. Also, it helps that I have a secret obsession for dandelions. 🙂 Love your beautiful necklace too!

  74. Gorgeous necklace…please enter me!

    (And thanks for the Shel Silverstein quote…it’s one of my favorites!)

  75. Oh i’d love this necklace to wear as a daily reminder to continue to wish & dream & hope…

  78. I’m a big dreamer too and will always make wishes with dandelion puffs – it is something that I have never grown out of doing and that makes me so happy. This post has beautiful imagery and the necklace is just lovely 🙂

  79. I take photos so that someday I will be able to capture a moment like this. I WISH it would. Beautiful necklace also!

  87. we are big believers in magic and wishes in our house! and loving the dandelions this season ♥ not sure how the neighbors feel about all the seeds flying by!

  88. i love that necklace…picture and photo pendants are amoung my favorite kind of jewelry.

  92. What a lovely necklace. I think we are all dreamers, it’s a beautiful thing when we can open our dreams and inspire others with them.. here is to dreaming

  93. What a beautiful image, necklace, and post. Just the other day my 4 year old and I were in a hurry walkking along, when she stopped suddenly and stooped down. I turned to see why she had come to a halt as we were in a hurry, and she stood up, gazing into a freshly plucked dandelion she had spotted as the world was being pulled past her by her hasty mom. It made me smile and caused me to take a moment to pause, bend down, and watch as she made a wish. It is the simple reminders that cause us to stop and take a breath…and make a wish.

    http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2694/4521253515_a93d0152ca.jpg

  97. I’ve been carefully watching the giant "wish flowers" in my neighbors yard waiting for the perfect moment to capture them in all their glory. Perhaps today will be the day.

  103. I’m doing a lot of dreaming about my first dSLR, which is being delivered today!!! Lovely giveaway.

  104. That photo is amazing!! I too love wishing on anything I can… Especially the first star of the night while laying on the dock at the cottage.

  110. I wish today is the day that I catch up with all my work. I wish that summer comes to California. I wish to see smiles on my children’s faces as they come home from school. I wish my husband does some good in the Gulf Coast and that he comes home safely to us. I wish……

  112. I’m a dreamer too 🙂
    The necklace is so beautiful! Love the peaceful feel of it. Stunning!

  113. wow. amazing picture and that necklace is too cool for school, love it. congrats to you on this new venture kristin! you should be proud.

  117. Oh how absolutely wonderful! I would be so honored to win one of these (or simply to purchase one if I’m not so lucky)! Putting my wish out to the universe…

  120. What beautiful innocence you’ve captured!! That’s what wishing is all about. Making one and keeping the childlike innocence believing it will always come true. Thanks!

  127. Ah, so many wishes set off on their own little sails! Just love the photos and the idea of wearing this beautiful piece around my neck as a reminder to set hope and dreams alight each day. Wishing for so many things right now … like the time to make more photos! Thanks, Kristin, for your lovely creation.

  128. That’s a beautiful necklace. I find myself making wishes any chance I get. I’m definitely a dreamer.

  130. As a military wife the word "wish" crosses my mouth often! I am inspired by your site. Even if I don’t win, thank you for the opportunity!!

  133. It’s SO beautiful! All I’m doing these days is wishing, and moving toward making those wishes come true. SO, so beautiful. Brings tears to my eyes.

  134. Oh Kristin…it is so very, very beautiful! This is just amazing! Oh please, please, Lord…may I win this…because I don’t think I have the strength to refrain from splurging on one!

  139. i was just linked up to your blog by a digi friend and i am so happy i came today! Kirstin, your new wish necklace is exquisite and congratulations on this new collection, as well as the chance for me to win. 🙂

    have a blessed day.
    xo.
    Laurie Ann

  143. lovely necklace! lovely photos! lovely thoughts! here’s wishing to win a wish necklace! :o)

  165. what a dreamy photo! thank you for this generous offering. me too…wishes, dreams, magic. love it all.

  167. How coincidental — I pulled out that Shel Silverstein quote this morning and thought, "I need to write a blog post about this." Now that I’m home, the dogs need walking, supper needs to be started, and then when it becomes quiet again this evening, I’ll pull Shel back out and write about wishing and dreaming. Lovely, lovely post (btw my logo is a dandelion seed)

  168. Long time reader, first time poster. I love your ideas for these necklaces, and I love your photography and writing.

  171. "Wish" is a universal desire. No right or wrong wish – only the "wisher" knows how strongly they "wish" for something.

  172. love shel silverstein! my mom read us his poems for years–and then my dad did–and we had a tape of him reading them, too. when i nannied for a professor’s children in grad school, i bought her daughter (who had loved poetry since she was an infant, seeking out the mother goose board book amongst all the others!) "where the sidewalk ends" for her third birthday. they were a bit skeptical–but peg (mom) emailed me a few months later and said how much they loved it, and the kids insisted on reading it every night! 🙂

  173. closing my eyes,
    taking a deep breath,
    picturing a "wisher",
    exhaling, and
    ~ wishing ~ …….

    thank you for a wonderful product from your wonderful photos!

  176. thank you thank you thank you all!
    come back tomorrow and see who wins the random drawing.
    XO!

  180. Oh how I loooooove this! What a beautiful way to bring photography and original jewelry together. Beautiful! *crossing fingers to be the lucky give-away winner*

    Sarah

  187. Oh, I love it! And I love your pictures, You make me smile, dream and rejoice in the simple wonders. I live in the city and it’s such a breath of fresh air to see more nature through your pictures! Thank you! 🙂 Chris Braunmuller.