“The name of my company “for You Designs” came about early in my child hood. Since I was little, I always doodled the words “for you”. I wrote them first with my right and then my left hand. I would also make the words as fancy as I could. I wrote these two words constantly through my life, until they made sense to me one day. For You as I see it, means “Unto YOU Lord!” As I was brought through my life’s journey, I can see my talents were developed just for this purpose. I had a passion for jewelry because my husband blessed me with jewelry as an expression of his love all of my married life. Each piece I received, I always went back to change it so it would have some meaning to it.

One night, while going through a personal tragedy with my husband, I got up in the middle of the night and opened up my bible. Randomly, I paged through it to a passage which said, “ I have held all of your tears in a bottle. I have counted each one.” That night I visualized a bottle with a hanging tear as a reminder of what I read and began to draw it out. More than anything in the world, I desired to create designs that would give people comfort and hope. Ideas began to come to me and I just kept writing them in a book until I could develop them one at a time. I had such joy in writing the poetry that went along with the pieces that usually expressed feelings of what the piece now visually meant. Thus, for You Designs by Deborah J. Birdoes was started.

I take no credit for the designs I create. I just make the words dance with visual concepts. The “desire of my heart” is that the words come alive for people as they wear the jewelry which has for them a “special message or meaning”. The for You Designs’ “Jewelry With A Message TM” jewelry pieces were created to be unique to the person who buys them or receives them as a gift. My wish is that they bring our customers the same joy wearing them or giving them as gifts as I received in creating them.”

for You Designs
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