Casey is the owner of The Original Ornament. She started beading as a kid when her sister went away to college. She had a part time job at the local bead store; her sister now claims to have started it all! Having grown up in Wilmington, North Carolina she is happy to be so close to her family. Casey worked part time at The Original Ornament while in school at UNC studying Anthropology. She graduated in 2000 and in December, she partnered with Rebecca purchasing ½ of the business. Between 2001 and 2003 she bought a house, moved out to Hillsborough, and purchased the other half of the business.
She lives quietly below large oaks in her own animal kingdom: Venus, Serena, Rudy Que, Clementine, Gidgo and Dadu.
Sidra Grove hails from the lower half of Ohio, but has lived in North Carolina, most specifically Carrboro, for the greater part of eleven years. She has a fondness for sparkly, shiny things owing to her having been raised by magpies. It is, then, unsurprising that she would choose to work with beads and be absolutley obsessed with the art of it. In addition to her love for little teeny shiny sparkly things, she also enjoys drawing, reading lots and lots of books, obsessing over the ongoing plotlines of Harry Potter and Lost, and writing fictional autobiographies of herself in the third person. (She wasn't really raised by magpies, see. It was actually wolves, which is why she never tucks her shirt in.)
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Carole Anne
She's Back, for those of you who may remember...
Carole Anne can be found dancing around the shop!
Madeline
Madeline is a senior at Carolina Friends School in Durham. The
Original Ornament is her first job, and she can't think of a place she'd
rather work. In her free time, Madeline enjoys playing ultimate
frisbee, social and environmental activism, and going on picnics.
Madeline can be found at the store on weekends between writing papers
about philosophy and bottle-feeding her foster kittens.
