Hi, I’m Hayley
I am a self-described hoarder, but I don’t just keep everything… I keep memories. I have old birthday cards, photographs, sporting events programs, movie ticket stubs, and other memorabilia from my 44 years of life and I’m basically Marie Kondo’s worst nightmare because for me, it all SPARKS JOY!
Now, not everyone needs to keep everything like I do, but I do think that keeping things that remind us of our past is a GOOD THING and I want to be the one to help you find the perfect, most beautiful and sparkly way to do just that!
How it Started
I’m just a girl from Jersey who made her way out to LA thinking she would write TV shows. 21 years later, I have made a lot of TV, but I found myself filled with a lot of anxiety and one day I began bedazzling some bottles for my friends daughters for their graduation gifts. You see, GIFTING is my love language. Not sure if that is even a love language because that whole love language thing skipped my generation, but I digress. I love giving gifts and I make it my mission to give the best gifts for every occasion EVER!
So back to my anxiety, as I sat there bedazzling these bottles for the first time, I realized how relaxing it was to sit there putting the puzzle pieces together of all these round stones and the stillness it provided. It was the making of it that brought joy not just the giving.
How it’s Going
BUT THEN I GAVE THE GIFT.
My gift baskets were filled with everything these girls needed for college with the finale being their bottles… each themed to their respective colleges. They were blown away! I knew I had won the gift giving game… the one only I was playing, against myself.
But what I realized that night, was that the passion for making the bottles and then gifting it was something I wanted to relive over and over again. I needed to keep going. And that is how Ferris Wheel Junkies was born. With each piece of art I make, it feels like that first bottle, that first rhinestone, that first bit of calm and then the rush of excitement knowing that someone will smile when they open it and place it on their shelf and every time they see it, they will SMILE.
Thank you for coming to my site. Thank you for reading my story and I hope YOU find whatever brings you this much joy!
XOXO
Ferris Wheel Junkies