I’ve been making jewellery since 2007. It all started with a trip to a local craft store to find the parts needed to repair a pair of earrings.
The problem was that the smallest pack of jewellery findings contained enough parts to repair 5 pairs of earrings. So as I stood there wondering what I was going to do with the other 4 pairs, something sparkly on the next shelf caught my eye: “Ooh those are pretty…..”.
To avoid the parts going to waste, obviously I just had to buy some beads and crystals to make some 4 new pairs of earrings. It would have been silly not to, right?
It turns out that buying sparkly things is actual quite addictive, and it wasn’t long before I had an impressive jewellery collection.
Initially I made jewellery for family, friends and of course myself, but after a while, and lots of encouragement, I decided to venture out and turn my creativity into a business and eventually By The Beach Designs was born.
You can find my online store on Etsy.