Make a mama proud: Design for Brighton!

I met Rhonda Gruss Spayd through Facebook's Brighton group pages. Turns out her daughter Lisa is a designer for Brighton, a woman who may have already touched your life with her talents. According to mom, Lisa is the artist behind Brighton's Flutter collection! For the record, I have both Flutter bracelets, both sets of earrings, the necklace and the anklet and I will NEVER sell them. In fact, I just grew my Flutter collection, snapping up the Flutter flower earrings yesterday! Mom says her flower garden served as a source of inspiration for Lisa. Here's the story in Rhonda's own words:

Her name is Lisa Spayd Sendre. ... After graduation she got a job for American Greetings designing cards. She was the first one to design the cards that are 3-D and they were selling very well for the Co. Then her then boyfriend got a job in California and she wanted to follow him. When they got to CA, she went online to find a job and applied to Brighton. Out of thousands of applicants she got the job. She has been working there for about 4 or 5 years and loves what she does. ... Lisa's designs have sold very well. Her first design was the Flutter collection and one of the recent was the Contempo Collection and she has done purses, reading glasses, and jewelery. She has done lots of straw purses also. She has taken lots of ideas from my garden. I love to garden and some of the things she has done are flowers. ... Brighton is a great company to work for. They are like one big family and that includes all the employees from the factory workers to the designers.

Look for Lisa's latest design, Silverwood, to be one of this season's biggest hits. Its a texture-rich combination of varied colors of woods and silver, presented as circles, spheres and asymetic squares. Thank you Rhonda for introducing us to your daughter. Lisa, I am really glad you moved to California!