Hello!

My name is Hannah Thees and I am the creator behind Spoons & Stones, previously Spoons & Such! Our jewelry is made using antique silverware, mainly spoons and forks, precious gemstones, and sterling silver. I create each and every piece in my home studio in Dayton, Kentucky. (Right across the river from Cincinnati!) I had hand pick all of the stones I work with during my travels to Arizona each year. I purchase all of my turquoise directly from the mine owners which results in the highest quality and ethically made cabochons. I had cut each spoon and fork to create the unique patterns you see on some of my work.

Spoons & Stones started in 2013 after I graduated from Columbus College of Art & Design with a degree in Illustration. My very last semester of school I decided to take a jewelry class and it was then that I fell absolutely in love with jewelry making, although looking back now I had loved jewelry all along. More on that later. After sitting down at the bench that first day, I knew I wanted to make jewelry for the rest of my life. Shortly after graduating, I gave illustration a chance but after six months I decided to take the plunge and create an Etsy site for my jewelry. I began using silverware because I had already had a collection built up and a spoon ring I wore every day. The very first spoon ring I made I gave to my mom and she still wears it to this day!

When I people ask me how it all started, I usually explain the story in the previous paragraph, but really it began at a young age, around middle school, when my bestie at the time and I would bring each other spoons from when we traveled on summer break. Any time we went somewhere without the other we found find a cool spoon, usually from an antique mall or garage sale (my family stopped every time we passed one or the other). I soon began to find the coolest spoons from antique shops and began collecting them for myself and not just for my friend. Along with spoons I also would snag costume jewelry that I would take home and mess around with. I would take it all apart and combine pieces together to create new and unique necklaces, and bracelets. For my high school graduation I created button bracelets for all ten of my high school besties! And I honestly had no idea I loved jewelry making until the class I took. But it all makes sense now.

Since 2013 I’ve moved from Columbus to Cincinnati, had several different studios, participated in art shows and craft markets all over the midwest, had a baby, and got married! I am so happy to be able to call my passion my job and my job my passion!

-Hannah