TWO COMPUTERS, ONE LOVE
My husband and I are a "later in life" Match.com story: two suddenly-single Baby Boomers searching for new life partners. We were both a bit nervous about starting over (especially at our ages), but were fortunate to connect our kindred spirits through the wonder of technology. Finally, a perfect match made...ONLINE! It was love at first email.
A few years later, we tied the knot on Halloween, but kept our marriage under wraps until Thanksgiving Day when we announced to our family that everyone sitting at the table was now related to one another! Thankfully, all were very happy with the news. ;-)

WE JUMP INTO ETSY
We enjoy spending time together so we decided to tinker around with ideas for a joint hobby that MIGHT also bring in a bit of extra income as well. We both have backgrounds in the creative world (my husband is retired from a successful career in the motion picture/TV industry and I was the merchandise buyer and retail sales manager for a major Southern California theme park as well as having experience in graphic design).
We came across Etsy and thought that we could give it a shot and start an online business.

We opened our first Etsy shop "Rosie's Vintage Prints" in 2011, and then "Rosie's Pendants" (now Rosie's Design Studio) in June of 2013. We started our jewelry shop out by offering hand-created pendant necklaces, but we soon expanded to other jewelry items, accessories, and gifts. To our amazement and delight, Rosie's Design Studio became so successful that I quit my day job, and hubby had to come out of retirement to focus our energies on our Etsy businesses.

Our items have been featured on ABC News, HGTV, Buzzfeed, Jimmy Kimmel Live!, Lifetime TV, and Brides.com, and are carried in numerous gift shops across the country including the Eleanor Roosevelt Val-Kill National Historic Site gift shop, Edgar Allan Poe Museum gift shop, and the Seattle Public Library gift shop. We also have a following of celebrity customers who love our creations.

OUR DIGS
We work out of our home-based studio in beautiful Valley Center, California which is located in northeastern San Diego county. When we are not busy tending to the business, we enjoy traveling, and spending time with our grown children, grandchildren, and our beloved Corgi, Cooper.

A MODEL FAMILY
By the way, the beautiful gal on our shop banner and avatar? That's my grandmother, Eleanor Rose, in 1930, wearing her wedding dress and hat. We named our shop in her honor. Other models used in our listing photos are our family members and our two Corgis: Cooper & Dweezil (RIP).

FEELIN' GROOVY
We think that it's pretty cool (Baby Boomer speak) that we two "slightly vintage" folks are able to make a living doing something we both love, making other people happy..and doing it all ONLINE!

Thank you for stopping by and reading our story...we look forward to making something special just for you.

Kim (aka Rosie), Roger, & Cooper