Sandra Callisto - Designer Ear Charms® ™
Laguna Beach, CA USA
I have been specializing in the design & creation of Non-pierced Ear Charms® since 1982.
Early on, I learned many of my jewelry making skills at the Laguna College of Art and from my friends who made toe rings & other jewelry. I started out working in my home & exhibiting at local street shows. I started exhibiting at the Laguna Beach Sawdust Arts Festival in 1982 & have exhibited every summer ever since. The festival is a great place to test new styles to be sure they fit & sell well.
For Many years I have had problems with my own pierced ears & felt wearing pierced or clip on earrings painful. I began by making basic Ear cuffs that wrap around the mid-ear. I soon expanded on the concept & extended many of my more contemporary designs to cascade down the ear lobe.
Through the years I have realized many women's pierced ears can be problematic, or they simply don't want to pierce, re-pierce or multiply pierce their ears. We no longer have to silently suffer in the name of beauty. These are a fun, beautiful & intelligent earring alternative, which evoke complementary curiosity in others, and quite often start conversation.
Now many of my styles actually cover the whole ear without piercing, pinching or pain. I call our Ear Charms ® Ear'gonmically™ designed, because I engineer them to naturally wrap & slide around the ear, using No Holes, No Posts & No Clips. Over the years I have made all the traditional types of jewelry, nothing else has captured my interest by allowing me to create in such a three dimensional, functional, challenging and rewarding way. The shape of the ear itself inspires many of my designs; however, my customer's comfort, nature, and especially the ocean are great influences.
We offer our Ear Charms® as pairs, sets and single earrings. We have found that many like to wear their Ear Charms® as pairs, while other like to asymmetrically mix & match, or they just like to wear a single as a fun accent to their other earrings. My designs are known for their understated beauty that gives them a fun, yet sophisticated style.
My goal is not to show how big and beautiful we can make our Ear Charms® but to design them to actually compliment and beautify the wearer and enhance their other jewelry. We are well known for our graceful designs, comfortable, secure fit, quality, materials and workmanship.
For many years we only made our Ear Charms ® in Solid 14K. Yellow and White Gold. Now because of the gold price & popularity of Sterling Silver & Gold Vermeil, which is heavy, pure 24K. Gold Plated directly over our Sterling Silver(.925) We no longer work in solid gold (but keep the high quality of workmanship) which makes our designs more affordable value for everyone. Like we used to do for the white gold, we Rhodium plate over most of our Sterling Silver, to keep it shiny white without the need to polish.
We love our work and we hope you do too.
All of our designs are original and protected by copyright, Ear Charms® Inc. The “Wave™” which is the basis for many of our other styles and was first copyrighted ® in 1982.