dear-fly handmade jewelry was created by Dave & Shannon Piedrahita in January 2014. We are a husband and wife team who were both born and raised in Cleveland, Ohio. Shannon had a background in making casual jewelry, as in when she didn’t have a pair of earrings to match an outfit she'd create a pair! Dave’s always had the entrepreneurial bug, and when we began to seriously discuss starting a business we thought applying the jewelry-making passion would work.

Dave had never created jewelry before, so Shannon went back to basics to teach him how things were done. As it turns out, he has great creative ideas and took to jewelry-making immediately. He has actually been the one to come up with most of our designs!