Things have a way of snowballing.

Gracious, Good started out as a blog. Actually, there was another blog, but friends liked it best when I discussed vintage watches and jewellery and encouraged me to focus more on those subjects.

After a while, folks would write and ask if they could purchase certain items. Around the same time I realized that I had too much jewellery because I was haunting auctions and thrift stores looking for big scores that I could write about on the blog.

In the summer of 2012, some friends of friends were starting up the Junction Flea in Toronto. They were looking for vendors and I thought it would be a good opportunity to see if I could actually be a merchant. The Flea was so much fun that I kept at it (did I mention that I have a lot of jewellery). Visitors to the Gracious, Good table kept asking if I had an Etsy store, so in October I opened up this shop.

I love being able to give pretty objects a second (or third) life. To quote Elizabeth Taylor: "I hope that whoever buys each piece loves it as much as I do and takes care of it and realizes that having jewelry is a temporary gift. In truth, we ‘owners’ are just the caretakers."