MollyStuff

Available at MollyStuff.com and Open Door Art Studio, Grandview

Molly Coburn keeps things simple for her jewelry line, MollyStuff.

Her signature pieces are pendants featuring iconic graphics that Coburn hand-saws from sheets of sterling silver.

"I just like the simplicity of jewelry. You wear it if it's pretty," she said. "I have a background in industrial design - it's a lot of researching exactly what someone wants and kind of making up reasons why somebody wants something. Jewelry is just straightforward."

After taking a metalworking class at the Cultural Arts Center, Coburn, a design school grad, began accumulating tools and tinkering with ideas.

"The first thing I sawed out of metal, I broke, like, 20 saw blades," she said.

Coburn works out of the basement in her Dublin home when she's not babysitting her niece, and hopes to make MollyStuff a long-term project. Her collections include the Geek line, featuring tie- and glasses-shaped pendants, and Initials - single upper-cased letters surrounded by a circle of sterling silver.

Coburn participates regularly in local shows like Craftin' Outlaws and the Eco-Chic Craftacular, but said she's been slow to get her work into local boutiques. She's partial to making things at her own pace.

Many of her ideas come from Etsy, the handmade crafts site, but Coburn got her original inspiration from an icon in the jewelry world.

"I kind of have this style because it came from my love of Tiffany jewelry," said Coburn. "I had a couple of those sterling silver necklaces that are very simple and you can wear them with anything. I wanted to make stuff that you could wear with anything. They're not really bold statement pieces, I don't think."