"The human race is intoxicated with narrow victories, for life is a string of them like pearls that hit the floor when the rope breaks, and roll away in perfection and anarchy." - Mark Helprin

Kudos to Club Monaco for inviting Paris-based jewelry designer Ligia Dias to collaborate on a capsule collection of necklaces for the holiday season (you may remember me mentioning Dias' work before when I developed a slight passion for the necklaces she designed based on the work of Bauhaus designer Anni Albers...an idea that I shamelessly copied after a trip to the hardware store). The CM collection reignites the yearning for a little something that successfully blends the simple with the lavish by placing rope, pearls, and Swarovski crystal in close proximity to each other.

The only problem is that CM has decided that the only US folks worthy of such trinkets are based in New York...guess that means I have another Dias-based DIY project on my To Do list....