"I’m bound only by the beads on my counter"…Cymbre

I have always loved jewelry.  As a kid, I spent hours flipping thru Spiegel catalogs and watching the shopping channels jewelry shows, salivating while I imagined which baubles I’d buy.  Somewhere along the line I got my hands on some beads and started making simple pieces strung on dental floss. I “created” many wonderful Christmas presents for family and friends, my mom being the lucky recipient of most of those creations.

As an adult I continued making jewelry but it wasn’t until 2004 when things started to pick up.  A good friend asked me to make a necklace for her to wear in a wedding.    She wore the necklace as a bridesmaid but then continued to wear it to work at her coffeehouse.  People were always asking her where she got her necklace.  She insisted I put business cards by the register in her shop.

Before I made business cards I had come up with a name for my company.  My husband suggested the name be simple and hip, that’s the Swede in him.  Thus nĕk was born.  I like to think he meant that as a reflection of my designs…