Time to find my Sparkle!
Based in North Lincolnshire, UK, I started selling costume jewellery in person via parties and over Facebook, in September 2022. I had never done anything like it before and it was a very steep learning curve. A few months later a friend suggested I try my luck on a market stall and I very quickly discovered that I enjoyed interacting with customers and the other stall holders far more than parties and Facebook lives.
A couple of years further along my journey and I began thinking that it would be fun to make and sell my own jewellery, giving old and broken preloved items a new story.....and so began the reloved preloved arm of my business. I was quite surprised with how quickly sales of my jewellery began to outstrip sales of the bought in jewellery, and so I took the decision to focus entirely on my own creations.
Opening my own online shop was the next logical step but I'm still manning a market stall a couple of times a month. Thank you for visiting and I hope you like what you see.
With love,
Elaine xx
Original Designs & Reimagined Pieces — What’s the Difference?
Love to Sparkle Original Design — a piece where I have created the design myself from the ground up, choosing and arranging the components to make something completely new. Those components can still be reclaimed, preloved or new.
Rescued & Reimagined — jewellery where an existing or broken piece has provided the starting point: perhaps I've dismantled it, rescued individual components, repaired it, simplified it, combined it with pieces from elsewhere, or transformed it into something entirely different.
A little note
Because many Love to Sparkle creations include reclaimed or preloved components, small variations and signs of a previous life are part of their character and make every piece wonderfully unique.