As I ponder all the jewelry I've admired and worn since I avidly started collecting in the late 1980s, my thoughts often turn to people I've had the pleasure of meeting during that time. I can't think about my favorite holiday jewelry pieces without remembering Bettina von Walhof and her daughter Michelle. I met them in the late 1990s when they displayed a collection of Bettina's designs at a jewelry collectors convention we were attending. It took about two minutes until I was awestruck by the imagination held in every single one of those creations.
That weekend I walked away with a von Walhof Santa brooch
