Courtney

Holly Thomas is a creative and inspiring jewellery designer; she owns her own jewellery business and loves making unique pieces of jewellery that you could never find in any other shop. Holly Thomas makes necklaces, bracelets and earrings.   Holly Thomas lives in Philadelphia USA and her main base of jewellery products is on her website [|www.spitfire-designs.com]  she also sells her products at markets, art shows and has jewellery consigned in boutiques, and just before Christmas holly has an open house where she sells a lot of jewellery.

  Holly decided on the name spitfire designs for her business when she remembered the name that her father called her when she was younger. He youse to call her spitfire because of her fiery personality so when holly was looking for a name for her company she thought spitfire was perfect! Holly Thomas never imagined in her wildest dreams that she would become a jewellery designer. Holly studied fashion design at the Philadelphia College of Textiles and Science for fashion. Holly worked so hard to get her degree that for some time she starved because she had no time to cook. After being there for a year holly decided that fashion design wasn’t what she wanted to do in life, so she decided to study journalism, once she had her degree in journalism she moved to L.A and she worked for a radio station. Holly’s family is very artistic her mother is a artist and was a fashion illustrator. her mum’s whole side of the family is very artistic. Holly’s aunt was an oil painter. A lot of people might not know but other members of holly’s family are well know singers and actors. Holly only decided to become a jewellery designer when her friend (who also made jewellery) dragged her along o a gem show in 2004. Holly has always been creative but she never expected to take a fancy to jewellery design. Holly’s favourite colours are blue and green which she finds very tranquil and relaxing, so she uses them a lot in her designs. Holly also only uses gold and silver for her designs which makes them a better quality. She uses a lot of pearls, gem stones, Swarovski crystals and fascinating one of a kind beads, holly also uses a lot of fancy gold and silver clips which she makes herself. Holly gets a lot of her inspiration from nature and her life. Holly comes up with very creative names for her jewellery pieces such as. Peacock allay, Texan tease, Nefertiti, tainted heart, Moroccan sunset and many more. Holly loves making double stranded pieces and asymmetrical pieces

Holly uses various patterns for her jewellery, from doing repetitive designs to colour patterns. Holly also uses shape as a tool. Making sure the jewellery piece sits just right on a person. It can take holly as long as one week to 4 weeks to complete on piece of jewellery but it can also take as short as 1-2 hours. Holly hand makes all of her jewellery no machines of fancy staff just holly. So I guarantee no two products of her will be the same.