About Pick Up Sticks Jewelry Co.
Established in 2000, Pick Up Sticks Jewelry Company is the home of whimsical, distinctive, and very collectible jewelry charms. Each charm features original collage art and is double-sided, displayed under glass, and framed in polished pewter.
Mix and match endless combinations of our wonderfully unique, vintage-inspired charms, initial charms, and accent crystals. Any woman who loves to celebrate her own style and personality is drawn to Pick Up Sticks Jewelry. The images on our handcrafted charms range from heartfelt to humorous to inspirational, and even edgy. Designed to make you smile, dream, celebrate love, and laugh out loud at life’s magic, humor, and irony, our jewelry is sure to enhance your style for any occasion.
Pick Up Sticks Jewelry is perfect for collecting and gift-giving, as there is something for everyone and every occasion.
Suzanne Tissier LaBounty, Owner
Raised in retail, Suzanne spent many after-school hours and summers working at her parents’ Asian import stores, waiting on customers, reveling in gift wrap, and unpacking untold treasures from the Far East. As an adult she went on to work professionally in marketing and design as an editor, publisher, and graphic designer for over two decades.
Suzanne’s feels her path to Pick Up Sticks was a gift from her sister, Andrea. One Christmas, Andrea gave her the Pick Up Sticks “Queen Sister” jewelry charm, that states: “Never underestimate the power of sisters.” When challenges arose, the sisters would often agree that there wasn’t anything the two of them couldn’t do together, so the charm was a testament of their bond.
Upon discovering the charm came from Pick Up Sticks, Suzanne immediately found the company website and instantly fell in love with the line and the story behind it (read about our founders, below). After years as a devoted customer, she subsequently learned that the company’s originators, Glena and Sabrina, had decided to retire and close the business. Her love affair with the jewelry and its history drove her to approach the cousins with the idea of keeping alive and passing along what they had created, so in September of 2018 she purchased the company, intent on continuing to bring joy and inspiration to its customers.
Glena and Sabrina, Founders
Cousins Glena and Sabrina are the talented and visionary founders of Pick Up Sticks Jewelry Company. The two grew up in Logan, a small town in rural New Mexico, population 500. According to the girls, when they were small, the most entertaining activities in the area were swatting flies on their great-grandmother’s porch, building miniature houses out of rocks and bits of glass, and searching for the perfect smooth stone. Their great-grandmother led them to explore a world of tiny hidden treasures, investigate abandoned houses and frontier dumps, and fill their pockets with sticks, stones, feathers, and flowers.
Eventually, Sabrina and Glena each followed their own professional interests: Sabrina concentrated on art and graphic design, while Glena pursued business and education. In 2000, the two combined their love of family heirlooms, antique finds, and time-worn treasures with their experience in the fields of art and business to start a company of their own. The business became a way for the cousins to revisit their past and those times spent with their great-grandmother in a small town.
Today, the unique business that they had successfully built as best friends and business partners for 18 exciting and rewarding years lives on.
