While she started her business at age 31, “I’ve always loved and had a fascination with jewelry,” Gretchen says. “I’m not sure why, but I have either collected it or coveted it from afar. As a kid, I can remember taking out my mom’s jewelry boxes, trying on all the necklaces, bracelets and rings, studying them, then putting it back and doing it again and again and again as the years went on."
