Cat Horn Accessory

Making new 4mm studs for this weekend's markets. This season I am adding red aventurine and lapis lazuli to the line up. Which ones do you like better?

Let's be real, the platform thrives on us showing the sunny side of being an artist or us dorking out lip syncing to audio tracks. But being a independent artist is hard. Like really hard. The uncertainty, loneliness, imposter syndrome. It feels overwhelming sometimes. But then you meet that one person who stops by your booth or sends you a sweet message to say how much they like your work. And it means the world. 💗
Sometimes I feel so frustrated with the life I've chosen. All the boring admin 😴, spending hours on the phone being the family's health insurance agent 🤮, sleepless nights worrying about the future 🫩. But lately, I've been watching as my husband and other loved ones are navigating this 'brave new world' with AI in the workplace and I think...😳 DAMN! I'm glad I got out of the rat race when I did! Cause my boss (aka: me) could never fire me to let an app do my job.
All jokes aside, I am truly disturbed by what the corpo's are doing to our economy. I feel like the only way forward is to support small and local over big business. And I hope to see a lot more people jumping into the world of making and indie business to counteract the development of our country into a corpocracy. And if I happen to be posting more videos that are anti-AI...this is why.

Confession time: I have fought with earrings since the day I got my ears pierced. I have so many issues I might as well have a subscription. The metal, the style, the weight, the way it moves, it all wigs out my piercings. I spent years avoiding wearing any until I realized I could make my own! 😳
I am partial to hoops and developing a huggie hoop that was easy to wear, didn't have an annoying claps or post, and looked cute was a major goal for me. These hoops are my everyday go to and are one of my all time best sellers. I personally have 6 pairs I switch between and my daughter has been wearing her 1st pair for 2 weeks now. 🥹
I have been making this style since 2021 and they are the style so many of you have come back and told me how much you love them ❤️, how easy and comfortable they are to wear every day. You all have no idea how much that means to me. 💗 It goes to show, design can't exist in a vacuum. And that just because something has always been done a certain way doesn't mean it can't be done differently. I took my own experience and created a solution to my problems and it resonated with others. That's one of the coolest parts of what I do and why I do it.
Design isn't just about making something pretty it's about creating something that works and making it pretty. 😉 And we all deserve pretty things that don't make us dread wearing them.
Check out all the colors options for the small gemstone hoops on my website cathornaccessory.com.

What a beautiful day to weave a rainbow!
I'm working on some new colorways for a summer launch. I am not much of a drop earring person but I might have to make an exception for these lightweight sparklies.
in addition to playing with colors and gemstones I take a lot of time working out the engineering of my designes. Yes, engineering. each style actually has to be worn, stay in place, and not be annoying to the person wearing it. That's the difference between good design and bad design. These earrings have such a long back to help balance the weight of the drop. It helps to keep the earring from sliding forward and falling out. second the way I shape the threader also helps keep the earring in without a back. The hoop at the top (the part that goes through the ear lobe) has a small opening and the metal is designed to flex as it is put in and close back down once in place. To remove them you just gently pull and the wire will flex again to open. Mass produced earwires dont do that!
check out all the earrings I make at cathornaccessory.com