NaturemadeByNic - Modern Jewelry Made By Nature, Deisgned By Me

Accessories – Nashville

My business was inspired by two things I've loved for as long as I can remember - jewelry and the natural world. As the daughter of two agriculture/horticulture graduates, the younger sister of a jewelry teacher, the paternal granddaughter of a master gardener, and the maternal granddaughter of a gem/mineral collector and one stylish jewelry collector, I suppose it was my destiny to love these things. The house I grew up in was deep in the woods of Southern Indiana, so I naturally spent a majority of my time outdoors - collecting rocks out of the creek, catching bugs, spotting constellations, cracking open geodes, hunting fool’s gold, staining all my clothes with pokeweed berries, and making endless dandelion chains. But in between the time I spent getting my hands dirty, I liked to go through the top drawer of my grandmother's dresser, where she kept all her glitzy pendants and brooches. I’d sift through my mom's earrings and rings in the bathroom, slowly migrating them to my own collection hoping she wouldn't notice (a habit I've yet to kick). When I was about 7 years old, my older sister opened up a jewelry store in our house, selling all sorts of handmade goodies to my parent's landscaping employees and everyone else who landed in our living room. Thanks to her (and Klutz Books) I learned the basics of jewelry making at a young age and continued doing it as a hobby throughout my teen and adult years, knotting friendship bracelets in the back of classrooms and making jewelry for gifts and personal use. I've dabbled in hobbies and art forms of all kinds throughout my life, but my hands always seem to find their way back to making jewelry - and digging in the dirt. Which led me to create my my business NaturemadeByNic - jewelry designed by me, using materials made by nature. I’m deeply inspired by the raw beauty and healing properties of the natural world, which is why I use genuine crystals and gemstones, lava rock, shells, wood, seeds, and other naturemade materials in all my jewelry designs. I am continually amazed by the power natural materials have to entertain our senses, amplify energies, heighten intuition, heal, enlighten, and attract frequencies of love, peace, and abundance. My jewelry pieces are designed for those who do everything with a measure of consciousness, and I hope you'll enjoy wearing my creations as much as I have enjoyed creating them (and the journey that brought me here ;).