Create Your Own Jewelry with Switch Gear
posted in style on Nov 7, 2011 for theme: being grateful
With the holidays too quickly approaching – Halloween seems to turn into Christmas/Chanukah overnight! – we thought we’d help you out with some great gift ideas from our Shop With a Conscience section. Every week through Thanksgiving, we’ll be introducing you to a company that gives back in some way, so you can start your shopping early, online and by making a difference.
Designer Lisa Monahan describes her innovative Switch Gear jewelry kits as “Legos for Women.” Well, they’re definitely as much fun, but we’ve never seen Legos in such rich materials as sterling silver, brass, glass and silver pewter!
Available in eight different styles, each interchangeable set gives you hundreds of options for mixing and matching elements. With kits ranging from Classic Earrings to Bling Bling Bling, you can put together an amazing array of pieces for day and night. Lisa’s work is available in places like the Institute of Contemporary Art in Boston, so you know each piece is a work of art in itself – and you can say you created it yourself!
And if all of this isn’t enough to make you want to get online and order one of each kit, Lisa donates five percent of profits to survivors of domestic violence through the National Domestic Violence Hotline and The Second Step.
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