It is safe to say a girl’s two favorite things are jewelry and flowers. Thanks to Chantelle Nicole Jewelry, they can have it all.

What started as a middle-school hobby has turned into a full-fledged business full of custom flowers, personal and inspiring messages, and beautiful accessories.

Chantelle Bishop of Vineyard has loved all things dainty and beautiful as long as she can remember. She started making decorative headbands for herself and her friends in middle school, thus discovering a love for crafting beautiful, personalized pieces. As her headband craze waned, she discovered her next step: jewelry.

“I saw a post on Pinterest of a tiny necklace pendant with the smallest flower buds in resin,” she said. “It reminded me of one my parents bought me when I was little, and I decided I wanted to learn to make that myself.” She spent hundreds of hours making thousands of flower buds and perfected her art “through tons of trial and error.”

After years of practice and a newfound interest in entrepreneurship, Bishop is now the proud owner of Chantelle Nicole Jewelry, a self-run, local jewelry retailer. She designs each piece herself and carries out every order independently. She even takes custom design orders and will dry and preserve customer-provided flowers to commemorate special occasions.

“My most recent custom order was preserving my good friend’s engagement roses,” she said.

When asked what inspired her to take this hobby and turn it into a business, Bishop said her faith is a light to her life. “This is what’s most important to me, so I love that I get to incorporate that into my business and spread some light while also providing for myself,” she said.

She loves the beauty that is found in the world and is excited to preserve that beauty and share it with all her customers.

By the time Bishop moved to Utah in 2020, she was already selling her work online to dozens of customers, but being in Utah has helped her take orders and make sales in person as well as find a routine of collecting orders, crafting pieces and sending them out within a tight timeline for flawless delivery.

“Moving to Utah is what turned this business into a serious endeavor, and it has helped push me to do a lot of new things and grow a ton,” Bishop said.

Utah helped her business gain real traction and attention; when asked what the Utah community does for her, she said, “Word of mouth is just … freaking awesome.”

Bishop sets an example by spreading her own light to others and encourages her customers to do the same. If you’re in the market for some pressed-flower jewelry, be sure to find Chantelle Nicole online and on Instagram, and if you like what you see, let your friends know.

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