Annieglass store in Downtown Santa Cruz
3:00pm to 8:00pm
Refreshments and informal modeling

I have enormous respect for jewelry designer Connie Anthon, the creator behind three popular jewelry lines. After spending 25 years as a fashion designer she found she enjoyed working with precious metals and stones more so she began a second career in jewelry and never looked back. Greatly influenced by her world traveling, art dealer grandmother, Evelyn Knight, she was encouraged to “Do what you love and you will be successful”. Connie named her first jewelry line after her grandmother, which features semi precious stones, freshwater pearls and cubic zirconium set in 22K plated matte gold and imitation rhodium handmade in San Francisco. Always a big hit with Annieglass customers, Connie will be bringing all her jewelry collections to a trunk show just in time for Valentine’s Day. The other two are called        C. Anthon, a sterling silver jewelry line and Tatto, one-of-a-kind pieces made of antique jewelry the designer takes apart and reassembles using semi-precious stones and many pearls along with sterling silver and 18K gold.

Connie statred metalsmithing only two years ago for the first time and vows to never stop, “I’m never gonna’ quit because I love it” she says. She studied art and fashion in college as well as ceramics and enjoyed the transition so much from fashion that she quit the clothing business completely.

When asked about her inspiration, she told me that she buys stones that she likes without knowing what she will do with them. She keeps them in a collection of ceramic bowls that she made and plays with them like a puzzle. “Sometimes it may take as long as a month but when it’s right, it sings. I know when something clicks.”

My mother gave me similar advice to follow my heart to find success and like Connie’s grandmother Evelyn Knight, was way ahead of her time in many things, particularly women and careers. To honor their inspiration the Santa Cruz Chamber of Commerce Women in Business scholarship program seems a particularly appropriate beneficiary. A portion of the proceeds of this trunk show on Feb. 12 from 3-8pm at the Annieglass store in downtown Santa Cruz will go to the scholarship program supporting young women’s professional pursuits.  Refreshments and informal modeling.
Annieglass Store

110 Cooper St. #110F  Santa Cruz, Ca. 95060   (831) 427-4260