uncorked
Asbury Park, New Jersey ·
uncorked
wine cork jewelry - the original test tube cork jewelryAsbury Park, New Jersey 4469 Sales On Etsy since 2007
Announcement
Be Kind Rewined is the most fantabulously awesome and original handmade cork jewelry on the planet by Cat Ivins at Olive Bites Studio.
Cork is the bark of the cork oak.
My recycled cork comes from local bars and restaurants at the Jersey Shore. My new cork is grown in managed forests in Portugal where the bark is carefully harvested, once every nine years, in a centuries-old tradition with hand tools and without fertilizers or pesticides; a process that ensures the forests will remain undamaged!
I believe that people have green hearts and green souls and even an occasional green thumb and want to buy green goods.
We want to save the planet, hug a tree, recycle, ride a bicycle and we want to look awesome and amazing and make our friends green with envy while we do these things - and that's where I come in! My jewelry and housewears (stuff your house wears) is sustainable and upcycled plus totally amazing and unique!
Visit my other shop for dozens of amazing magnetic and recycled lockets http://polarity.etsy.com and read more about me in this Etsy featured seller interview https://blog.etsy.com/en/featured-seller-uncorked/
All Uncorked jewelry designs © Olive Bites Studio 2007-2016.
Announcement
Be Kind Rewined is the most fantabulously awesome and original handmade cork jewelry on the planet by Cat Ivins at Olive Bites Studio.
Cork is the bark of the cork oak.
My recycled cork comes from local bars and restaurants at the Jersey Shore. My new cork is grown in managed forests in Portugal where the bark is carefully harvested, once every nine years, in a centuries-old tradition with hand tools and without fertilizers or pesticides; a process that ensures the forests will remain undamaged!
I believe that people have green hearts and green souls and even an occasional green thumb and want to buy green goods.
We want to save the planet, hug a tree, recycle, ride a bicycle and we want to look awesome and amazing and make our friends green with envy while we do these things - and that's where I come in! My jewelry and housewears (stuff your house wears) is sustainable and upcycled plus totally amazing and unique!
Visit my other shop for dozens of amazing magnetic and recycled lockets http://polarity.etsy.com and read more about me in this Etsy featured seller interview https://blog.etsy.com/en/featured-seller-uncorked/
All Uncorked jewelry designs © Olive Bites Studio 2007-2016.
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Welcome to Uncorked Jewelry ™ the most fantabulously awesome and original handmade cork jewelry on the planet!
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My new cork is grown in managed forests in Portugal where the bark is carefully harvested without harming the tree!
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My used corks are recycled from local bars at the Jersey Shore!
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My studio, Olive Bites, on a very organized day!
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Some pics from a recent show in Phillie!
Olive Bites Studio - because biting's like kissing, except there's a winner
My name is Catherine (Cat) Ivins and I make really cool new stuff out of really cool old stuff.
I live in a little house at the beautiful Jersey shore.
I have one hubby, one daughter and one dog. My design studio is called Olive Bites (after my pup, who doesn't anymore) where I design and create 2 sustainable and recycled jewelry lines called Uncorked Jewelry® and Polarity Lockets®.
My Uncorked jewelry is made with cork bark that is hand-harvested in Portugal (without harming the cork oak trees) and is upcycled in my NJ studio into something handmade and beautiful and totally unique.
I also recycle corks for many bars at the Jersey Shore - luckily for me we have a lot of them! And people from all over the planet send me their corks - luckily for me I have alot of friends who really, really like to drink.
My cork obsession began with a wine cork hubs and I saved from the first night we spent in our new house. Being the crafty goddess I am I pulled out a super thick red magic marker I had used for our packing boxes and wrote NEW HOUSE on it (wasn't I clever?).
This NEW HOUSE cork was soon joined by PORTLAND VACATION and ANNIVERSARY and NEW BABY (well, truthfully the baby came first, but this way makes a better story).
Corks were soon filling every drawer and every closet and every nook and cranny until it was either make something or stop drinking wine (note- we did not stop drinking wine).
I want to deliver a unique view of something we have all seen before and hopefully get everyone thinking about new ways of seeing and using some of the other things in our lives. I hope you enjoy my work as much as I have enjoyed making it!
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Olive Ivins
Owner - Chief Dumpster Diver
I am what happens when a boston terrier falls in love with a beagle - I am the brains behind and the chief inspiration for Olive Bites Studio (no matter what Cat puts in her story).
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Cat Ivins
Owner, Maker, Designer
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- Accepts Etsy Gift Cards and Etsy Credits
- Money Order
- Check
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- Custom or personalized orders
- Perishable products (like food or flowers)
- Digital downloads
- Intimate items (for health/hygiene reasons)
I accept returns I do not accept returns
I accept exchanges I do not accept exchanges
I accept cancellations I do not accept cancellations
Because of the nature of these items, unless they arrive damaged or defective, I can't accept returns for: