About the Designer
CEN Studios has been in business for 4 years in Bel Air, Maryland. It is owned by Carole Novak who has been designing for most of her life, whether it's insurance forms for seventeen years, landscape designs (owner of Gardenesque for almost twenty years), or her newest venture into gemstone bead and metal jewelry design.
Jewelry design allows Carole to use her full range of design abilities to design and craft one-of-a-kind jewelry pieces for you just as she designed one-of-a-kind landscape designs for her landscape clients.
The Galleries
The bead jewelry galleries shown above include well-made, bead and metal jewelry using semi-precious gemstones, high quality glass beads, freshwater pearls, and a variety of metals. Carole prefers to use .925 sterling silver or gold-filled metals. Because of the skyrocketing increases in silver and gold prices, she is also working with less expensive but no less beautiful metals including TierraCast lead-free pewter in various finishes, copper, and brass metals. Most of these pieces are one-of-a-kind designs. You'll never see your necklace or bracelet on someone else. In this day of mass production, isn't it nice to be able to purchase and wear something that no one else has? Carole thinks so.
The galleries have pictures of her designs and all of the information you need is right there to help you make your decision. Click on "How to Purchase" for purchasing information.
Showcase
From time to time Carole will showcase one of her designs on the front page to show you new gemstones or a new jewelry style.
Kiva
A portion of the profits from this website's sales goes to kiva.org which "is a non-profit that is revolutionizing the fight against global poverty by enabling people to connect with and make personal loans—of as little as $25—to low-income entrepreneurs in the developing world. Most of the poor in developing countries are self-employed entrepreneurs and a small loan to purchase business-related items such as sewing machines or livestock can empower them to earn their way out of poverty." (From Kiva's Brochure)
For sales made at local venues, a portion of the profit goes to a local charity.
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