Jocelyn Broyles has been making jewelry since she was a young girl, when she would take her mother's and grandmother's worn, cast-off and broken jewelry and making something beautiful out of it once again.
She holds a degree in creative writing from UCLA, and jewelry took a backseat to writing for many years, until it resurfaced after eleven months of traveling with her husband through Central America. An eye-opening experience for Jocelyn, she realized that life was too short, and hers too blessed with opportunity and health, to spend it doing anything but following her first passion.
She returned to the States and studied under various experts in their field; be it beading, gemstones, enameling, or metalsmithing. In under a year though, she was back in Central America, forging a new life and her new business from the pacific coast of Costa Rica.
She continues to live in Costa Rica and design her collections from there -- inspired by the tranquility of the ocean, the green of the tropical mountains and the songs of the howler monkeys and parakeets outside her window.
Her jewelry can be found in select stores in and around Playa Tamarindo, Costa Rica; Bettina Duncan for Fred Segal in Los Angeles; select Nordstrom department stores, and small boutiques across the US. She hopes her jewelry brings the joy she feels in making it to all who wear it.
