Find my items at tinygalaxies.com! I do not keep my Etsy shop regularly updated and have over 100 items in my website. ☺️

Idle time drives me crazy, relaxing is not for me. This is how my shop was born. I started my journey on Etsy selling prints of my paintings, but I wasn't happy. I needed more. Jewelry has been a love of mine for as long as I can remember, and it satisfies my appetite for a more instant gratification. I started experimenting with jewelry making and learned about resin. It had potential and I felt like I could go places with it. In my typical, impulsive fashion I began running to craft stores every day after my then day job, buying supplies and getting ideas. I would come home and experiment with it every night until my logic got loud enough to force me into bed. I learned how to make some things out of silver and taught myself a few basic metalworking techniques. I had some visions. Soon enough, I came up with a few pieces which had something in common that I liked: simplicity and sparkle. This was in early 2010.

I'd never seen anything exactly like it before, so I started preparing more items until I had enough for a shop. I nervously listed a few items, and then I waited. The first sale came, and then more continued to trickle in. I never gave up, and eventually people started buying what I was selling. I started recognizing the same customers, coming back again and again. Eventually this became something that I could call a success.

There have been many highs and lows in the last six years since Tiny Galaxies was born. I tweaked my photography, changed my prices, got into wholesale. I did all of these things so many times, to keep my jewelry relevant and to stay ahead of the copycats. Since 2010, I've seen more 'glitter post earrings' than I can keep track of, though I had never seen them when I started making them. My focus is the drop earrings, which no one has successfully copied yet. Now, I have more styles and colors than ever and know that it will only grow into an insanity inducing inventory. Tiny Galaxies slowly grew into my full time, only job. It is now my morning, day, and night job. My four cats keep me company during the day when I'm making sparkly earrings and my husband is my 'take packages to the mailbox' guy. I truly could not imagine doing anything else.

While I'm still active here on Etsy, my entire collection can be found on my website at tinygalaxies.com!