Jimmie Lynn is one of those folks who actually quit her "day job" and pursued her dreams. She is now designing gardens, and making jewelry, and welding up landscape art. Somewhere in between, she is reclaiming her grandmother's old home place up in Landrum, South Carolina which is to become her studio and home.

I kept bumping into Jimmie Lynn at various art shows and have always been attracted to her display of unique metal and enamel jewelry. I thought it would be nice to carry her work, but I couldn't make the jewelry pieces fit my "must be functional" rule number one.

We stayed in touch, and I kept looking for an application for her unique skills. The opportunity came when I needed some clasps for my hand-bound books. Jimmie Lynn came up with the perfect solution which used her metal working and enameling skills.

I met her at the Bohemian Coffee Shop in Greenville, South Carolina for "show and tell" and we both were ecstatic over how well these clasps turned out. On some of the clasps, she has used embedding techniques to leave the patterns of strange objects in addition to the enameling effects.

You can usually find Jimmie Lynn at the downtown Greenville Market on Saturday mornings. She will be sharing a space with her friend, Laurie, who makes wonderful things using paper and small "found objects."

So if you are using rubber band as closures for your journals, then you gotta' use this better solution from Wingo Designs! If you really want to use one as a bracelet then go ahead, I won't mind.