Our Story

Meet the pair behind VME! Ally runs the Design, Marketing and Accounting department and Levi is Chief Assembly Officer.

Village Made Earrings specializes in fashionable earrings made of leather, cork and acrylic. It won’t take you long to see that we love to be honest and silly; thus, we’ve named our drop earrings CHIN NEIGHBORS and our studs LOBE ROCKS. The beginning of VME goes like this…

Hi. I’m Ally and I have an earring addiction. Accessorizing has always been one of my favorite ways to showcase style and personality. I had purchased a pair of leather earrings at a small boutique in early 2018. Amazed at the weightless comfort, it didn’t take long for my creative self to begin shopping for leather so I could make my own. I started by making cardboard templates, hand-cutting leather and eventually asking my husband, Levi, to put “the thing on that thingy” with pliers. I failed more times than I can count in Spanish, but each one of those misses was a boomerang to try again. Quitting or letting up on the late nights was never an option because I loved being creative and sharing the result to bring others joy. One of my favorite public figures, Bobby Bones, said “Fail. Learn. Repeat. Fail. Learn. Repeat. Keep failing until you don’t.” 

Friends, family and co-workers began requesting earrings and November 2018, I shared a table at a craft show with my sweet Momma. I sold enough earrings that day to buy a machine to cut leather. This was a GAME CHANGER. Hello endless styles. Goodbye tracing cardboard templates!

Then Village Made Earrings was born. We live in a mini metropolis (village) 15 miles west of Omaha, Nebraska so ‘Village Made’ seemed to be the best name for this hobby-turned-small-business. Today, we continue to fail, learn and repeat with the ultimate goal of creating original pieces that you will love wearing as much as we loved making. (Don’t worry, we make sure we’re done failing before we launch any new designs!)

We’re so grateful you stopped by our site and took a moment to read our story. We would love to meet and connect with you on Instagram or Facebook @VillageMadeEarrings.

xo,