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Local Artist Creates Beautiful, Unique Jewelry

Right here in Southern Ocean County you can find original, unique and beautiful jewelry personally made by Megan Darienzo.  Megan creates handmade jewelry, Mother's necklaces, bridesmaid earrings & necklaces, birthstone jewelry, charm necklaces, bridal hairpieces and other personalized & sentimental pieces. 

Megan is a wife and busy mom of 3, who has had a lifelong love of art & all things beautiful. Her little family served as the inspiration behind her very first family tree necklace. From there she has focused on creating beautiful, meaningful pieces of jewelry to honor the moments of our lives....new babies, weddings, motherhood, and so much more.  She absolutely loves taking custom orders and plans on expanding her line to include her original drawings and prints.  Although the majority of her business up to this point has been online, she has participated in a few local craft shows. Megan's jewelry has also been for sale in the gift shop of the Noyes Museum of Art in Oceanville, NJ, and she is looking into expanding into a couple boutiques on LBI and Smithville.

Megan's family moved to Barnegat in 2006.  She and her husband James discovered the town driving home from a vacation in Wildwood. After driving around the area for a bit, they started looking into the real estate and found they could get a lot more house for their money here.  In Barnegat they were able to find a cozy, quiet neighborhood with sidewalks for their kids to play on. (For the same price in Monmouth County they were looking at much smaller homes on very busy streets.) They drove down here several times before they moved and checked out the parks and the bay beach and were happy to see lots of young families using them. And since they've been here, they’ve made some wonderful friends and they’ve really enjoyed lots of the "extras" the town offers, like having breakfast with Santa and Mrs. Claus at the Rec Center and story time at the library (they love the Ocean County library system!)

If you are looking for a beautiful, one of a kind gift for someone special, check out Branches By Megan Darienzo.  Don't forget, she loves custom orders.  Ask to see her tree drawings.  They are awesome!!

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