Press Release

Troy, MI - Local custom jewelry and ceramics designer, Kristie Carry, has now launched a website for her company, Mackenzie Miller. Up until a few months ago, Mackenzie Miller jewelry and ceramics were only available through Nordstrom Somerset, Pottery Barn Kids and local trunk shows.
The website, www.mackenziemiller.com, has an extensive selection of personalized handmade jewelry unlike anywhere else. Carry creates beautiful and interesting original designs made out of fine materials that have great appeal to the modern woman with discriminating taste. Her personalized mother's jewelry is unique and fashion-forward, anything but typical. She also has a line of jewelry to adorn the "Little Diva" and your four-legged friends.
Other than jewelry, Carry is a finished ware producer of keepsake and functional ceramics. You may have seen some of her personalized frames in many of the 2005 Pottery Barn Kids catalogs. The website has a large selection of ceramic keepsake items to suit any occasion. All pieces are hand painted and make for very thoughtful gifts. Custom work is fancied at Mackenzie Miller and each piece is testimony to that.
For more information on Mackenzie Miller and to view the continuously updated list of innovative jewelry and ceramics, please visit www.mackenziemiller.com or call toll free (800) 700-7725.

How we started

Mackenzie Miller began when a certain divorced mom went back to school to become an elementary teacher. When she had free time (hah!), she enjoyed creating jewelry for herself and her friends; since making jewelry had been a hobby of “Mackenzie’s” since she was a little girl. She would often wear her pieces to her education classes and when her classmates began to take notice – Mackenzie began to take orders. Soon after that she was off to jewelry parties and craft shows trying to make a name for herself in the enormously competitive world of jewelry making, all the while taking care of her daughter and studying to be a teacher.
Then she met “Miller” and everything really started to fall into place. Miller swept her off her feet with the love and support of a fairytale prince charming, giving her even more inspiration and desire to create things of beauty. Soon she was selling jewelry to the local Nordstrom, preparing to take her teacher certification exams and give birth to her second child. And then she met this girl that did pottery…
Miller still tells people the story of when his wife came home one day and stated that she’d “like to buy a kiln”, though she hadn’t worked with clay since high school. Next thing you know Miller is hauling a kiln to the basement and shelves are getting lined with bottles of glaze. Mackenzie threw a couple of pottery parties at home, ordering all kinds of bisque for her friends to decorate, which led her and Miller to a bigger idea. A year later that idea came to fruition and Mackenzie and Miller were busy glazing and firing away filling orders for their new account with Pottery Barn Kids.
Mackenzie did finish her studies and became certified to teach elementary school; however, she has chosen to stick with creating jewelry and ceramics with her best partner, Miller.

www.mackenziemiller.com