RUSSELLVILLE — Tucked away in the large back room in Betty’s Antique Mall, where countless artifacts such as old dolls, antique furniture and a trove of 1970s comic books compete for space, Karen Logan has a horde of homemade jewelry and other crafts on display.

Sitting inside and on top of a glass storefront counter is an assortment of items Logan made herself, including sheets and burlap rolled into the shape of a flower and a cake stand made of a plate attached to the top of a candlestick holder.

For her crafts, Logan repurposes old objects and makes something new.

“One of my favorite things to do is go shopping and look for items that are either in thrift shops or Goodwill and things like that and find little gems there,” she said.

She often combines these “little gems” into new pieces, like the cake stand fashioned from the plate and the candlestick.

“You have a very unique piece you won’t ever see again, made out of something that was probably going to end up in the trash,” she said.

The creations Logan makes with the greatest frequency are her necklaces, some of which feature a clay pendant, stamped with a design and colored.

Logan originally got the idea for the clay necklaces from similar ones she’d seen on Pinterest, though she wanted to craft her necklaces with a fresh approach, she said.

“I don’t like to do anything someone else does exactly,” she said. “I just have it in my head and I try to put my twist on it.”

Her personal twist, she said, involves stamping designs into the clay, applying numerous colored patterns and burnishing the edges to give them a worn look.

Logan also makes necklaces with pendants made of wire bent into shapes and adorned with beads.

Above all, Logan strives for uniqueness in her crafts, she said.

“I can make stuff probably no one else is going to make,” she said. “I mean, there’s no fun in repeating everybody else. It’s fun showing people this is what I can do and this is what I did.”

Though she has plenty of previous experience with crafts ranging from cakes to embroidery, her current business, Logan Made, has formally been in operation since March.

Her husband, Charlie, who retired from the Russellville Fire Department in January, is a part of the company as well, specializing in woodworking.

Logan got the idea for her business and started getting it off the ground shortly after losing a job at a local dental office, she said. When she returned from maternity leave in January, she found the firm didn’t need her anymore, she said.

“I had free time all the sudden,” Logan said. “I was looking for a way to start making some money and so I spent most of January (and) February creating products that were ready to sell.”

By April, she had a booth set up in Betty’s Antique Mall, which sells her wares for her.

Employed now at the Logan County Chamber of Commerce as an executive assistant and with three children, she doesn’t always have time to make new things, much less sell them herself, Logan said.

Though her company has only been around for about half a year, Logan has gained a bit of renown for her artistic exploits locally.

On Oct. 25, Logan gave a presentation at the Logan County Public Library, showing a crowd how she makes her wire necklaces.

Tracy Houchens, the library’s adult programming coordinator, said she found out about Logan’s crafts while they were participating in the Logan Leadership Program, a program done through the Logan County Chamber of Commerce that highlights local businesses. “She was out touring and she had these really cute earrings on and I found out they were homemade,” Houchens said.

Shortly after discovering this, Houchens said she asked Logan to host a lesson at the library on how to make similar jewelry.

“She took us through it step by step,” she said, adding that the lesson highlighted techniques for bending and cutting the wire.

“It’s not as easy as it looks,” Houchens said. “She’s very talented.”

The demonstration was a success, Houchens said, with 16 women attending, ranging in age from 20 to about 70.

Logan said she may go back to teach another class and Houchens said she’d be welcome to come back.

Marcia Key, who’s been involved with organizing numerous arts and crafts fairs in the area, said Logan Made has been involved in some of them and has attracted plenty of attention because of Logan’s unique designs.

“She’s got her own look to the designs,” she said. “I’ve never seen anything like it. She’s just been very creative as long as I’ve known her.”

While Logan Made may expand in the future, for now, it’s a small business run out of the Logan household that turns out products when it can.

“We kind of started out small and actually we’re still small,” Logan said.

Juggling work, a family and the business has been difficult and has limited her output, but the process of making the crafts, even if it hasn’t netted enough profit to become the family’s main source of revenue, has been rewarding, she said.

“We enjoy doing it and it’s kind of just a side hobby but it’s a lot of fun,” she said.

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