a locket style pendant

Growing up my favourite story was The Secret Garden. When I was little I used to go to to my Nans house and her garden was slightly over grown, so my sisters and I used to pretend it was a secret garden with lots of hidden, magical areas to hide in.

The magic of stories as children and the games and imagination has lived on now as I have children and when I saw the brief for this conception, it took me back to that magical time, and my childhood when I spend hours playing in my Nans garden. My Nan passes away many years ago, but the magical times and stories from my childhood and more importantly memories I have of her and her stories are still with me.

I wanted to create a locket that captured this particular story and that particular memory that is 'locked' in my head forever and links with my favourite story. The locket represents this Once Upon a Time... in a secret Garden, my Nan's garden. All the stories and memories from my childhood are now locked in a pendant that I can wear close to my heart forever with the memory of that special time and my Nan, as very special lady, captured forever.