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ST GEORGE — Have a love for music and want to show it in a harmonious way? Don't fret – this business is hitting all the right notes with its wild variety of guitar pick earrings.
"It seems like it's been forever, but it's just kind of the beginning," Mary Love, owner and founder of Groupie Love, told St. George News. "All along the way, we're just learning. And I'm dreaming big."
With her husband as a guitar player and her as his groupie, Love said she often attended his live shows. One day, she decided to create a pair of guitar pick earrings from his Fender and Gibson guitar picks. As she continued to rock her designs, friends, family and concertgoers raved about them. She set up shop in her home kitchen and began making them as a hobby, taking racks of earnings to sell at music shows.
"Music is a global language," Love said. "It's crazy how recognizable they are. Not a day goes by even now that we don't get compliments for wearing them and comments like, 'Oh wow, are those guitar picks? Where did you get them?"
After researching the manufacturer behind the Fender guitar pick, Love found D'Andrea USA, a company that originally invented the first plastic guitar pick in 1922. She's bought their guitar picks in bulk ever since.
