Sugar Grove resident crafts jewelry, delight - Kane County Chronicle
SUGAR GROVE – Robyn Rogers has a business that could be described as a gem.
![[Nancy Young of Aurora gets assistance from Robyn Rogers with putting on an ankle bracelet from Boutique Robina at the Sugar Grove Farmer’s Market on Aug. 26.] That’s because Rogers, a Sugar Grove resident, is the creator and jewelry maker of Boutique Robina. Her slogan is: "Jeweled bracelets, earrings and necklaces that will make you smile!” Rogers’s jewelry is a mix of colorful, sparkly crystals and tone beads. She calls the jewelry “shiny little pieces of happiness.” Rogers recalled when she made her first bracelet and took time to buy and mix colors and textures. “I can just sit down [making jewelry], and it just makes me happy,” Rogers said. “And when someone buys one they put it on, and they’re happy. People that love jewelry just love it. You put something on that you like, and it just makes you smile.”](https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/blogger_img_proxy/AEn0k_t4eZ9RJcognggF1a1EY6GAQNsPWwmEqTUt2ZG58LyMtQRCjhtK-d7lHkzTNLftpHH9dX9j5JmT=s0-d)
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[Nancy Young of Aurora gets assistance from Robyn Rogers with putting on an ankle bracelet from Boutique Robina at the Sugar Grove Farmer’s Market on Aug. 26.]
That’s because Rogers, a Sugar Grove resident, is the creator and jewelry maker of Boutique Robina.
Her slogan is: "Jeweled bracelets, earrings and necklaces that will make you smile!”
Rogers’s jewelry is a mix of colorful, sparkly crystals and tone beads. She calls the jewelry “shiny little pieces of happiness.”
Rogers recalled when she made her first bracelet and took time to buy and mix colors and textures.
“I can just sit down [making jewelry], and it just makes me happy,” Rogers said. “And when someone buys one they put it on, and they’re happy. People that love jewelry just love it. You put something on that you like, and it just makes you smile.”
[Tim and Robyn Rogers of Boutique Robina set up displays of jewelry at the Sugar Grove Farmer’s Market on Aug. 26.]
Rogers’s main job is an office manager at PM Music Center in Aurora.
Some co-workers have requested Rogers’s jewelry – like Laurie Hamdani, an Aurora resident.
“I’m very much a bracelet person,” Hamdani said.
So, bracelets have been her main purchase. Both Rogers and Hamdani collaborate on making custom-made jewelry pieces.
[Robyn Rogers of Boutique Robina sets up her display at the Sugar Grove Farmer’s Market on Aug. 26.]
“My own personal style, I kind of like things that are a little more clean or streamlined and not super glary,” Hamdani said.
Fellow co-worker Louise Vargo, a Plainfield resident, requests earrings, necklaces and bracelets.
Vargo also collaborates with Rogers on how to make the perfect design for herself.
“I have really small wrists,” Vargo said. “So sometimes I’ll see something … I’ll be like, ‘Oh. I love that!’ And then it will be way too big. And she’s like, ‘Oh. I’ll just send you a smaller one. Don’t worry about it.’”
[Cindy Lucca of Yorkville asks Robyn Rogers questions about the girls’ bracelets at the Boutique Robina display at the Sugar Grove Farmer’s Market on Aug. 26.]
As for how Vargo feels when she sees herself wearing Rogers’s jewelry, it is true to Boutique Robina's slogan.
“They do make me smile,” Vargo said. “It’s wonderful.”
Another part of Rogers’s creations is a variety of swinging charms, like a pastel pink glass bead with roses, silver accents and a fuchsia crystal.
Boutique Robina can be found at craft and school fairs in Sugar Grove, Hillside and Brookfield.
[Bracelets made by Robyn Rogers of Boutique Robina.]
Closer to home, Rogers can be found with her husband, Tim Rogers, selling jewelry at the Sugar Grove Farmer's Market, held on Saturdays, held from June through September.
Other sites Boutique Robina pops up at include Harper College, an upcoming craft show in Pheasant Run in December, and Kaneland John Shields Elementary School for Holiday in the Grove.
Boutique Robina is also as close as the computer by visiting http://ift.tt/2hA2wQ0.
Rogers sells charms for $3.50, earrings for $8, bracelets for $22 and necklaces for $15.
[Robyn Rogers of Boutique Robina sets up a display of bracelets at the Sugar Grove Farmer’s Market on Aug. 26.]
She also offers home parties and wedding orders.
Those wanting to make a special order can send an email to robinawitz2@gmail.com.
Tim Rogers pointed out what makes his wife’s jewelry unique.
“They’re her creations,” Tim Rogers said. “They’re color combinations. She just doesn’t buy a string of beads and stick a wire through them. She’ll take four or five different types of beads – colored beads and put them together in what she likes and would wear.”
