Designer reacts to ‘miracle’ necklace
JACKSON, Tenn. — One week ago, Janeice Frisbee was shot twice during an attempted bank robbery in Humboldt. Some credit the necklace she was wearing with saving her life.
For the past six years, Amanda Toddings has been making custom designed jewelry and selling it online through Etsy. But in the thousands of pieces she has sold, it only took one to change a person’s life forever.
“She is a walking, living, breathing, talking miracle,” Janeice Frisbee’s daughter-in-law Brandy Frisbee said.
A necklace made of thin strings of wire and beads was all that stood between Janeice Frisbee and a .40-caliber bullet.
“That it was actually a point-blank shot from three feet away, I’m even more grateful to God for the grace that was shown to this woman and her family in sparing her life,” said Amanda Toddings, designer of the necklace.
The tree of life necklace was given to Frisbee on her birthday by her son and daughter-in-law. It is now a gift they will never forget.
“The things that we chose to do for other people, like giving them a gift,” Toddings said. “You really never know what the far-reaching effects are going to be.”
From her design studio in Oregon, Toddings hand-makes everything she sells. But she said she never thought her handiwork could save a life.
“If I purposely tried to break the necklace myself with pliers I could do it in seconds,” Toddings said. “It’s not a bulky, silver belt buckle or a medallion — it’s just wire and beads.”
And although we may never know exactly how the necklace deflected the bullet, Frisbee’s daughter-in-law said it was just one miracle after another.
“There was a reason that I got on Etsy, and there was a reason that that necklace was the first one I saw — and it was to save my mother-in-law’s life,” Brandy said
According to Brandy, the necklace is still intact after the shooting but is with the FBI as evidence.
