The East Western is owned by Megan Escalante, who draws inspiration from her childhood spent in the SouthWest and by her love for vintage treasures, which sparked shortly after moving to North Carolina. Making jewelry started as a creative outlet in 2011 when she was looking for a tangible way to express some of her free-form ideas. Jewelry was a great medium for all of her passions. She spends half of her time hunting down vintage pieces that she can clean, reinvent and bring to life. The other portion of energy spent on jewelry-making is forming the shapes she sees in her mind into pieces folks can wear. When she’s not making jewelry, you can find her in The Western North Carolina Mountains with her daughter, husband, cat and dog.