Is handmade artisan jewelry on your gift list?
This is the second in a series of Christmas gift ideas with an Ada connection. Featured art is from the ONU art and design Facebook.
If handmade artisan jewelry is on your Christmas shopping list, your search ends here.
You will find affordable custom-designed jewelry on the Etsy site of Ohio Northern University art and design 1996 grad, Toma Grothous Bomser.
As a student, Toma was involved in Kappa Pi art honorary and graduated with a BFA degree in art with a concentration in graphic design.
After graduation, she worked as a designer in ONU’s office of marketing and communications and now is a senior graphic designer at the Ohio State Wexner Medical Center.
T.Joy Designs features handmade artisan jewelry.
Toma said that her latest work was “inspired in my own backyard. This is my happy place.” You may visit her Etsy shop here by clicking here.
Photos below represent only a partial listing of items in stock.
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