designer spotlight

Designer Spotlight: Amy Jennings

By Tracy Matthews / July 25, 2014

A BRIEF STORY OF WHAT YOU DO AND WHY YOU DO IT I currently make wooden, electroformed copper and hybrid (wood & electroformed copper) rings. For most of my twenties I struggled to realise what I wanted to…

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Designer Spotlight: Amy Kanka Valadarsky

By Tracy Matthews / July 18, 2014

A BRIEF STORY OF WHAT YOU DO AND WHY YOU DO IT People would say I create jewelry pieces, I want to think I can make dreams come true. There is nothing like watching the delight of a…

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Designer Spotlight: Deborah Ross

By Tracy Matthews / July 11, 2014

A BRIEF STORY OF WHAT YOU DO AND WHY YOU DO IT I started making memory jewelry after my grandmother’s funeral I received a memory bracelet from her funeral flowers and knew I could do a better job.…

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Designer Spotlight: Susan L. Goldstein

By Tracy Matthews / July 4, 2014

A BRIEF STORY OF WHAT YOU DO AND WHY YOU DO IT In June of 2009 my mother was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer.  I decided to make bracelets and give them to the women in my mother’s life…

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Designer Spotlight: Sasha Bravo

By Tracy Matthews / June 27, 2014

A BRIEF STORY OF WHAT YOU DO AND WHY YOU DO IT Aside from the creation process, at the end of the day, what brings me joy is to see the client smile, knowing they can enjoy a beautiful…

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Designer Spotlight: Leslie Garner Moore

By Tracy Matthews / June 20, 2014

A BRIEF STORY OF WHAT YOU DO AND WHY YOU DO IT My passion is creating beautiful, natural and affordable pieces, using mother earth’s gifts.  Mixing metals with a predominance of silver, adding textures and natural stones is…

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Designer Spotlight: Phonechay Baker

By Tracy Matthews / June 13, 2014

A BRIEF STORY OF WHAT YOU DO AND WHY YOU DO IT In 2011, I opened Phonechay’s Creations on Etsy, selling knitted and crocheted goods to raise money for my upcoming wedding. The response was more than I…

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Designer Spotlight: Patricia Tyser Carberry

By Tracy Matthews / June 6, 2014

A BRIEF STORY OF WHAT YOU DO AND WHY YOU DO IT I love working with glass, and making jewelry. It is a way for me to express myself creatively, and help women look and feel good about…

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Designer Spotlight: Ria Rees

By Tracy Matthews / May 30, 2014

A BRIEF STORY OF WHAT YOU DO AND WHY YOU DO IT I’ve had a long-lived passion for the written word, in fact as a teenager I aspired to be a published author. The novel is still in…

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Designer Spotlight: Johanna Wood

By Tracy Matthews / May 23, 2014

A brief story of what you do and why you do it. It’s a compulsion?  I just feel like this is what I should be doing and I can’t/don’t want to stop  HOW DID YOU GET INTO JEWELRY…

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