BRIT Hostetler's fame began with a phone call out of nowhere asking about her jewelry and maybe if she'd like to include some her earrings in one of those goodie bags the celebs get at 2006 Emmy awards. Celebrities like Geena Davis, Debra Messing, Annette Bening would be wearing her dangling earring designs.

Of course, she said no....ah...just kidding....!!

That is where it started for this young jewelry designer, but she continues to get press for her designs and her company called Mish Mash Jewels.

Here's more about her experience from CentreDaily.com:

"I got a phone call, and they asked to speak to the director of marketing," she said. "I'm the owner, the designer, the director of PR, finance, the secretary. I immediately called my parents and told them."

According to the artist, a secretary of the gift bag company found an ad for Hostetler's earrings in a blog. The secretary was so taken with the design she showed them to her boss and the rest, as they say, is history. Except, as with so many success stories, it really started much earlier -- with seed bead necklaces in fifth grade.

Though Hostetler has no training, she learns from other artists and from books.

"In anthropology, I saw a lot of ornamentation from all over the world, from all times," she said. "Some of the breast plates and the layered pieces I noticed in my anthropology text when I should have been taking notes."

Perhaps her interest in anthropology also accounts for her appreciation of stones.

Check out more earrings and a few necklaces from this talented and lucky jewelry designer.


Microfaceted Clear Quartz on Large Link Chain with Asymmetrical Chain Accents


Red branch coral mixes beautifully with fluid silver chains and a hammered silver link


Faceted Tiger-Eye on a Sterling Link Chain