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affectionately around their adopted home town of West Plains Missouri
as "the tye dye girls", Janet and Stacy officially created
Jassi Designs in 1990. It was another chapter of what Janet had started
10 years earlier when frustration led her to quit her restaurant management
career in Phoenix, Arizona and head home to Iowa to help her mom start
out selling in some small art fairs until she found "something
better". Her mother was a retired art teacher and was one of
the few artists in the country working with copper electroforming
as her technique of choice. It was during this time they started doing
some of the higher quality art fairs across the country as equal partners.
But, after working with her mother for 4 years as a copper jeweler,
Janet went out on her own to develop her own style. She worked under
the name "Jewelry by Janet" for 3 years and it was during
this time she changed her life by meeting Stacy through their mutual
love of horses.
Stacy, at the ripe ole' age of 29, had finally fulfilled a life
long dream and had gotten her first horse. Janet had horses Private life found them relocating from Iowa in 1998 to the Ozark mountains of southern Missouri. There they have 12 acres where they have acquired many 4 legged lost souls in need of a home. Their true love is spending time with their large variety of live critters and finding time to ride horses in the National forests that surround them. Riding with friends among the trees is what they work for. That, and filling all the hungry mouths that share their bed and meet them at their back door!/
Visit both our store (for copper) &
Critter Grove (live)...Enjoy |
most of her life, and started boarding a horse at the same stable
in Des Moines, Iowa where they were both living. Stacy had relocated
to DM from Cedar Rapids and was working as a veterinarian tech.
They both felt an instant kinship and a lifelong partnership and
friendship was born. After 10 years as a vet tech Stacy was feeling
the burnout and Janet was finding the miles on the road traveling
to art fairs lonely. So, they took the major step of Stacy quitting
her "real" job and Jassi Designs was born. Stacy had a
great deal of artistic talent and this merger allowed them to both
work on and develop their art full time, as well as sharing the
long hours on the road traveling to the many art fairs they do across
the country. It was their love of animals that changed them over
from jewelers to animal sculptors. "One winter our animal pins
just got big...".
They
have recently added some wholesale shows to their retail art fair
schedule and find their life busier than ever. But, they would never
turn down a sale so if you find something on our site that you are
interested in purchasing or have a gallery and would like to consider
adding us into your shop please e-mail or call us anytime. We welcome
all inquiries.. on both copper animals and live ones! Enjoy our
site.
