Guest Author - Susan Dorling

“The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.” ~ Eleanor Roosevelt
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As a glorious late summer twilight descends, imagine for a moment that you are sparkling—yes, sparkling brightly from head to toe—every fiber of your being is alive and infused with a delicious lightness and warmth. Your heart is dancing with anticipation of the holidays to come. You are radiant on the outside and glowing from a special place deep within. You look and feel incredibly beautiful. It’s like this soft summer night has wings that have transported you into a world of pure magic—a bejeweled and gold-dusted land that lives in all our dreams, brimful of delights and wondrous fantasy!

Make this enchanting dream a reality. Come; be touched by the magic of Kirks Folly!

We are proud to introduce our Annual Fourth Quarter Jewelry Shopping Showcase designed to give you a wonderful multitude of jewelry resources for holiday gift-giving, and to enhance your own personal jewelry collection.

To launch our Jewelry Shopping Showcase we celebrate the magic of Kirks Folly. Over the next three months and right up until December 24th, we will feature Kirks Folly through an engaging series of articles, product reviews, and an exclusive interview with Jenniefer Kirk. Do you believe in Fairy Godmothers and Fairy Dust? Well, you will when you have seen the exciting designs and felt the magic of Kirks Folly for yourself. For those of you who are already Kirks Folly collectors, we hope you will enjoy this homage to a fabulous family owned company that has adopted Jenniefer Kirk’s personal philosophy, “If you can dream it and believe it, you can do it."

The Kirks Folly collection includes high quality jewelry, home accessories, and clothing that capture both elegance and whimsy in their intricate and beautifully crafted designs. The unique and wonderful Kirks Folly world of collections is inspired by fantasy, romance, storybook legends, and a deep love and appreciation for nature and animals. This enchanting world has been christened “Fairyland” and Jenniefer Kirk is known as the Fairy Godmother. Believe in the magic!

Since we are a Jewelry Collecting site we will explore the world of Kirks Folly jewelry. It all began in 1979 with a simple pair of chopsticks. Now that is magic! It is the magic of creative genius with a huge helping of persistence. Helen Kirk, who always had a strong creative flair and natural gift for design, took those chopsticks and wrapped them with embroidery thread and embellished them with shells, prisms, charms, and beads. Voila! Glitter Sticks were born—gorgeous hair ornaments that her sister Jenniefer was determined to sell to the most prestigious department store in New York City!

Afire with an unswerving belief in her sister Helen’s magnificent creations, Jenniefer launched a relentless campaign to see the store’s buyer. Finally, after three months of calling, the sisters were rewarded with a meeting. The buyer was enchanted with these wondrous creations and the sisters found themselves demonstrating the Glitter Sticks to the store’s customers who were crazy about these uniquely beautiful hair accessories. This resulted in an order too large for the pair to fill by themselves, so their brother, George, and sister, Elizabeth, joined them, each sibling bringing their own unique skill to the fledgling company. The orders kept on coming and more people were recruited to work on the increasingly popular Glitter Sticks. The dream of Kirks Folly was coming true!

In 1992, Kirks Folly was suddenly catapulted to a whole new level of success with their appearance on QVC (world famous home shopping network). During the hour long show the fairy-tale and angelic-themed products they presented sold out in only 40 minutes. The audience fell in love with the whimsical jewelry designs and their passion for Kirks Folly grows with every passing year. Check out the Kirks Folly Forum, Send Us Your Questions, Customer Comments, and Shutterbug Reflections, and you will find not only customers, but real fans of the Kirks. For a business to inspire such devotion to their products is admirable in this day and age. Not only do the products invite customer loyalty by more than exceeding expectations and continually offering a parade of exciting new designs, but the Kirks themselves as individuals, especially the charismatic Fairy Godmother Jenniefer, are responsible for this unheard of brand loyalty.

The overwhelming ‘overnight success’ of the Glitter Sticks and the success that followed for Kirks Folly is inspiring and an impetus to follow our dreams. The Kirks Folly story is about that unbeatable combination of creativity, ability, and determination. It’s about talented people who believe in their dreams, and take action to make them come true. And, we’re glad they did. Just wait until you see the beautiful creations from Kirks Folly—you will be mesmerized by the meticulous attention to detail, the sumptous colors, the impeccable designs! And, there is something fabulous to suit everyone's budget. If you love beautiful jewelry as much as I do, I'm sure you will become a fan of Kirks Folly.

Look for a new Kirks Folly Gallery here at the Jewelry Collecting site every week until Christmas Eve. The Gallery is one of our Featured Articles for one week then placed into our Shopping Showcase category for future reference. (Shopping Showcase is accessed from the main menu (at left) on our home page.)

Announcing our next Gallery! Our Kirks Folly Magnificent Couture Skullduggery & Royal Skeleton Gallery will be published by 6 p.m. EST, October 3rd!