Sha and Michelle: Jodi Bock Necklaces and Memory Cake

I first heard about Jodi Bock's necklaces from a friend of mine, Terry. I'd run into Terry at the movie theater, I was in line to see the midnight showing of Harry Potter and Order of the Phoenix, she was coming out of a movie. I started talking to her about my newest dog, Madelyne.

The next day Terry called me at work to tell me that she had seen a woman wearing a necklace with her dog on it. Terry works at a bank downtown and the woman was in her line. Terry told the woman that she knew someone who would love to have a necklace like that (she was talking about me- duh!!!). The woman told her that she made the necklaces among other trinkets and gave Terry her business card. Terry then called me and gave me the phone number and told me it was located in Carytown.

This is Jodi's necklace of Sadie that Terry saw Jodi wearing.

Well, the next day off I had, Michelle and I went to Carytown, we figured we'd see Jodi's shop. It was a pretty slow day and no one was really about except a man and his dog. We stopped in our search for Jodi's shop to pet the dog and to talk to the owner. The dog's name was Sadie and the owner was really nice- we asked him if he knew where the shop was. He said he didn't know but it sounded like his wife's business and he pulled his wife's business card out of his wallet! I was like, oh-my-gosh, out of all the people we could have run into in Carytown we ran into Jodi's husband and dog!!!!

It turns out that the place she makes the necklaces is her studio which is on N. Dooley Ave. - close to Carytown, but it's not on Cary Street.

I called Jodi a day or two later and her husband had told her the story- she thought it was wild too :)

I asked her to make a necklace for my cousin Jamie with her two dogs (Nick and Goldie) on it for Christmas 2007. She did and it is beautiful. It's two-sided: one side is black-and-white , the other side is color.

**I'll have to see if I have a picture of it somewhere**

When Bandit passed away in May 2008 my sister and I wanted to do something special to remember him by - we already have tattoo of our pups, and we had been talking about getting necklaces made by Jodi. We decided to get Bandit necklaces made and also to have his picture put on our birthday cake since we had got him on my birthday in '05 and he'd past close to our birthday (Michelle and I are 1 year and 4 days apart - Michelle's older if you're wondering)