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Beverly Give-Turner is fashion forward. The 54-year-old artisan jewelry artificer and resident of Ballantyne's Bridge Hampton subdivision became the event organizer and evil-doing president of business relationships for Charlotte Seen, which does red carpet putting into play and event marketing, as of September 2011. Grant-Turner credits her feel something in one's bones of creativity for her recent success. "I've always done something creative in addition to a full-time job," she said. On a whim, Agree to-Turner turned to jewelry as a "creative and emotional outlet" in 2005, when she was intricate juggling family and a corporate career. She bought her daughters, Stephanie and Natalie, strength certificates to a bead show at On A String bead shop in Myers Park on Conservation Road. Her daughters had a good time, but for Grant-Turner it was more. At bottom after, Grant-Turner left corporate America, in June 2005, and began to continue designing jewelry full time. She also worked as executive director of the International Line, a nonprofit organization that serves as a center for diversity and cultural inclusivity, on Hawthorne Lane cheese-paring uptown, from 2008-10. Then she decided to put all her efforts back into her craft. Making that move has changed her soul in ways she never could have imagined, she said. "I feel freer and more inspired living creatively," said Award-Turner. "I have just been introduced to the world of couture fashion, and it has been wonderful." Beverly Concession Artisan Jewelry graced the runways this year during Charlotte's Fall Model Week in September, with designers including Dontarius Clyburn using her jewelry to accessorize their runway looks. Her pieces also were presented to winners of heterogeneous fashion awards, including Best Emerging Designer and Most skilfully Make Up Artist. Grant-Turner's jewelry was used again in November, at Pink Soles' "Shades of Pink" manner show benefiting Susan G. Komen for the Cure at the new Foundation for the Carolinas erection in uptown, by designers such as Mikelle DeFo, Candace Friedman and Odelia Goad. Her pieces also were worn in "For The Love of Harlem," a play written and scored by Jermaine Nakia Lee that played in become lower at Duke Energy Theater at Spirit Square. Grant-Turner's designs were incorporated into the pleasure by the show's wardrobe stylist, DaVita Galloway. In 2012, Grant-Turner will have a photo fire with Carmen! Carmen! salon and spa and another runway appearance at Charlotte's Passport to The rage in April. But her jewelry won't be the only thing sparkling in the limelight now that Grant-Turner is in liability of marketing and business relations for Passport to Fashion in 2012. As for her jewelry, Award-Turner is still making one-of-a-kind wearable art using quality semiprecious stones, Swarovski crystals, Murano pane, Cloisonné and freshwater pearls. Grant-Turner uses smartness to create timeless pieces that are practical for everyday wear. Each restore of jewelry comes with extra-large lobster-claw clasps, denotation no extra hands are needed when dressing. Every necklace also comes with chain extensions, making it easier to get the put length. Grant-Turner said her inspiration comes from the "pertinacity and spiritual qualities" of every stone, and that her work becomes an extension of the inner loveliness of the women who wear it.
Source: Charlotte Observer