Finding beauty in the broken
Laura Beth Love sees opportunity and potential in the broken and discarded. Founder and owner of Dishfunctional Designs, based in Emmaus, Pennsylvania, she’s spent more than 30 years crafting one-of-a-kind pieces of jewelry, with a twist. She makes her masterpieces from fragments of china, pottery, glass and textiles.
What started out as a way to make some money while in college blossomed into a successful business. Her jewelry-making endeavors began in 1989, the year after she graduated from high school. She earned an associate’s degree and then completed her undergraduate education in English and professional writing from Kutztown University of Pennsylvania. Love’s first creative interest was stained glass.
“Stained glass is heavy and very breakable
