L.A.-based artist Timmery Turner calls her jewelry business “1981 Collection”, a sort of code for fun in an 80’s nostalgia, chicy, kitschy kind of way.

If you guessed that 1981 would give away Timmery’s age, you would get a gold star for good guessing.  But more than her age, it starts the flash bulbs popping on the particular runways of her inspiration.

“A lot of the things I’m drawn to are the things I played with as a little girl.”

“I don’t really try to plan what I’m going to create.  I just start playing with things I find.”

This necklace, for example, may tickle some memories from a long lost funny bone.

Yes, those are broken pieces from an old cassette tape, clearly playing an old feathery pink song by a zebrafish and a hello kitty daffodil.

It’s not hard to imagine a childhood fascination with soda pop and dolls, and a warm and fizzy nostalgia appears in one of Timmery’s most popular items – the bottle cap bracelets.

If all little girls had cameras in the 80’s then surely they would have taken snapshots of their dolls posing in their rooms and saved those pix for some future pop-top frames.

So this is all very cute and artsy and fun, but will it make you pretty?

Here are two photos that will answer that question.  One taking the approach of indulging in a lot of bangles and one keeping it simple.

Timmery comes at her designs from a broad background of fashion, music and the underground art scene in L.A.  A graduate of both the Fashion Institute of Design and Merchandising in L.A. and the Los Angeles Recording School, Timmery still travels in both worlds and currently acts as founder and producer of “Sugar”, a venue designed to give emerging and underground female artists an affordable show where they can network and get exposure.

Timmery’s jewelry can be found most weekends at The Melrose in L.A. and can also be easily purchased online at her interesting and informative website, 1981 Collection.

Timmery Turner