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Empowered Jewelry Art
The Collections
The Trojans Collection
November 2024
One third of all sales in this collection and Trojan-related custom orders will be donated to Simsbury High School DECA. It will fund an Empowered/DECA scholarship, awarded to a graduating senior who demonstrates perseverance, creativity, and an interest in pursuing a business career.
The Love in Service Collection
January 2024
This collection celebrates all the ways to show and receive love--not only as an individual human, but as humanity. A portion of sales from this collection will be donated to Healing Meals Community Project. Healing Meals is a non-profit based in Simsbury with the goal of “nourishing our community and empowering tomorrow’s leaders.” A portion of sales will be donated to Healing Meals Community Project, Simsbury, CT.
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The Logan Fierce Warrior Collection
September 2023
Logan Schoenhardt (2006-2017) was a fierce warrior and I am honored to work with his mother to create this collection in his honor. Logan's Foundation for Childhood Cancer, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit, exists to ease financial stress, so the family can focus on the child that is suffering ...and on each other. Pieces in this collection were inspired by the things that Logan loved including dinosaurs, flowers of all kinds, football, and the beach.
The Seasonal Sharing Collection is now closed
September 2023
This collection was created to celebrate the festivities of the Fall and Winter. A portion of sales from this collection will be donated to The Holcomb Farm Fresh Access Program in Granby, CT, which provides free, healthy foods to more than 500 households during the June to October growing seasons. This program serves Granby, Hartford, New Britain, Plainville, Bristol, Waterbury, and many other local towns.
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“The fundamental law of human beings is interdependence. A person is a person through other persons.”
— Archbishop Desmond Tutu
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A portion of sales from this collection was donated to the Fresh Access Program at Holcomb Farm.
The Wear Food to Share Food Collection is now closed
May 2023
These pieces were created with various food items including coffee beans, dried fruit and vegetables, and hops flowers (from Germany!) to bring attention to food insecurity and hunger.
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"If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one."
Mother Teresa
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A portion of sales from this collection was donated to CT Foodshare.
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The Bark and Beads Earth Conservation Collection is now closed
May 2023
Some of these pieces were created with dried tree bark collected on nature walks in Simsbury, CT, as well as at a yoga retreat center in the Berkshires, MA. Other pieces were created with glass beads handmade by women in Ghana from bottles and windows.
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"The Earth is what we all have in common."
Wendell Berry
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A portion of sales from this collection was donated to Clean Air Task Force.
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The Ukrainian Herbs Resilience Collection is now closed
May 2023
The flowers in these pieces were purchased from a woman-owned herbalist business in Kyviv, Ukraine, in early 2023. These specific herbs are recognized in various cultures for their medicinal and healing properties.
Resilience. Healing. Power.
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"I can be changed by what happens to me. But I refuse to be reduced by it."
Maya Angelou
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A portion of sales from this collection was donated to UNICEF USA to help the current aid efforts in Ukraine.
The Blue Rose Empathy Collection is now closed
May 2023
These pieces were created with pressed miniature roses purchased from a small business in Miami, Florida. Blue is a color that is associated with peace, like a clear blue sky. Blue ironically though, is also used to describe feeling depressed.
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This collection recognizes the current mental health crisis, and hopes to inspire empathy toward each other.
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"Could a greater miracle take place than for us to look through each other's eye for an instant?"
Henry David Thoreau
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A portion of sales from this collection was donated to National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI) --the US's largest grassroots mental health organization that supports, educates, and advocates for those with mental illness.