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“My jewelry starts out with a ‘What if?’,” explains designer Angela Saunders. “I ask this question, and things start to happen. “I find inspiration in that initial question.”
Angela was displeased with mass-produced mall jewelry (”I had no interest in wearing the same pair of earrings as the girl next to me”). So she decided to make her own. Starting big box craft store beads, Angela moved on to genuine stones and sterling silver (”big girl stuff”). Compliments led to sales (”I don’t remember that lone customer of yore, but it was a turning point,” she muses), and sales led to Eura Le, her jewelry line, named for the grandfather she never met. “My creativity is often attributed to him,” Angela tells us. “Thus the name. We never met, but we still share something. He gave me something since we missed each other.”
The copper bracelet is one of Angela’s favorite creations. “I can’t decide if I really want to sell it. I just like looking at it!” When a friend specifically asked for a copper bracelet, Angela was intrigued by the malleability of the copper, and started experimenting. “I found that shape because I needed an attractive shape AND something that could actually be worn,” she says. The stones are golden cherry quartz, which Angela added to “bring the copper to life.”
Next on the schedule is a line of eco-conscious children’s items. “I’m in no way a ‘planet earth’ type girl,” she insists. “Natural products, especially Fair Trade items, keep my focus because the designs are cool.” Her current focus is on a Mommy & Me gift set, consisting of chlorine-free diapers and an organic cotton toy for baby, and earrings for mommy.
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