You’ll never guess what these moms’ gemstones are made from
Ann Marie Sharoupim was pumping eight times a day, trying to jumpstart her milk flow, but she couldn?t make enough to feed her baby. So a friend donated some of her breast milk.
?It was a priceless gift, and a lot of work. I made her a pendant to say thank you,? says Sharoupim.
But it was no ordinary pendant. The new mom created it from some of the donated milk, using her background as a pharmacist to figure out how to preserve it as a creamy, white stone.
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The pendant got so much attention that Sharoupim began selling a few pieces on Facebook, and over time she had enough orders to launch her own business, Mamma’s Liquid Love. Now women from as far away as Israel, India and Brazil ship their ?liquid love? to her to be encapsulated and set into jewelry.
The idea took off, and now Sharoupim, from New Jersey, is among dozens of vendors who design keepsakes from blingy, diamond-studded halo rings to simple, circle pendants?all carrying drops of hardened breast milk. The pieces sell for $50 to over $600.
Jewelry makers? processes vary. Sharoupin?s takes two and a half weeks, beginning with sterilizing and drying the milk, then hardening it and encapsulating it in r...
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