For the Love of Art and Photography
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Remember ever going to that football game or football / baseball party with your family and friends? Do you dress up on Friday's to support your team at work on dress down days? and then looked in your jewelry box for the perfect necklace, earrings, or bracelet to match it? Well, I was in your shoes a few years back. All the jewelry in the stores were either cheaply made or didn't have the * PIZAZZE * that I was looking for. So I started designing my own jewelry to represent my home team the Green bay Packers!
I've always had a passion for art and design. My mother-in-law taught stained glass and had a little side business designing the most intriguing pieces of jewelry I had ever seen. From that moment on, I told myself, I was going to master that, and I did. I took what I learned from her, honed my skills, added my own flare and Jill Gehr Designs was born. I have two very different lines of jewelry. One line embraces my love for football (I have an obsession with the Green Bay Packers, my home team) and other sports. The other embraces my love of art, creating, designing, colors, nature and my love of photography.
I could never find any Packers earrings that I liked, so I started designing for myself, which led to family and friends wanting me to make earrings for them...which led to a dear friend of mine telling me to go up and sell some of my jewelry in Green Bay. I thought, why not? So I started out with one of those small, tall, bar tables and have grown to the point where we have our own booth now! We have customers from all over the United States! Our business has tripled its sales from last year alone. Every piece of jewelry I've created was inspired from one of our fans. I'm always striving to make our customers the happiest customers ever.
Three years ago we were invited to Tailgate with veterans in our local area where they fundraise to make money to help other veterans. My husband and I wanted to be a part of that! And we wanted to do something special! So we decided to donate 50% of our sales on one home game in November. To date we have donated $1,900. I still remember the tears running down one of the Veteran's faces when I handed him $510.00 that first year. It's a very humbling experience.
From there, I started having facebook family and friends, who are NOT Packers fans, asking me to create and design jewelry using their teams logo. They would tell me that they loved my designs, but they didn't love my Packers. LOL! I got excited. I thought of all the different colors, variations, ideas and so we started expanding other Licensed NFL Team Logo Jewelry. It's our goal in 2016 to have several designs for each NFL team. If you see a team that we don't have listed, please let us know! I would be honored to design something for your team!
The Wearable Art design part of our business is my baby. Each piece has its own story. Our designs are inspirations from either a painting of mine, our daughter, Loren Marie's, a photograph I took, or one our daughter took. Some of the designs can take anywhere from one week to two weeks to create from start to finish and due to the process using resin, no two are ever the same and there will always be slight variations. People are so surprised to find out how light the pieces are. They look like glass, but it's not, most are resin and paper. Some are so light that you don't even know that you're wearing them. Which means easy on the ear lobes!
When you purchases one of our pieces, we want you to know that it is a one of a kind. Each piece is made with love from my heart to yours! We are proud to offer a wide variety of items. All our jewelry is skillfully hand crafted with the simple goal to offer our customer the highest quality designer pieces at affordable prices.
Materials used are either Nickel-free metal, silver-plated, gold-plated, glass beads, Swarovksi Crystals, Gems, , brass, copper and pewter. All earrings wires are Surgical Stainless Steel French hooks unless otherwise noted. If you ever have any questions, please ask! :-)
