You’re never too young
Londyn Bond, a secondgrader from Dewey, will be participating in the Indie Trunk show in Tulsa on April 8.
Shoppers at next month’s Indie Trunk Show may be surprised when they visit the booth for local jewelry company Londyn’s Moments. The business is run by Londyn Bond, an 8-year-old entrepreneur whose day job is attending the second grade at Dewey Public Schools.
Bond started Londyn’s Moments in late 2015 when she began making jewelry for herself and her family. As people noticed the handmade bracelets, word about the business spread and has grown to the point where Bond fills around 20-30 orders every month.
Since launching the business, she’s also made her mark as the Indie Trunk Show’s youngest vendor. She will participate in the Oklahomacentric craft and design show for the third time April 8 when it hits Tulsa’s Expo Square.
Bond said her favorite thing about the show is interacting with customers.
“I love selling my bracelets and talking to them,” Bond said.
Members of the committee that selects the vendors for the Indie Trunk Show were a little startled when Bond’s application came through the review process, show co-founder and coowner Stacy Jobe Lea said.
Indie Trunk, which started in 2014, only considers applications from independently owned Oklahoma businesses and takes the best of the best from that group. The show in Tulsa will feature around 130 vendors.
“We were pretty surprised,” Jobe Lea said. “Especially when we saw her Facebook page that it really was, at the time, a 7-year-old and saw pictures of her actually making the bracelets. It was so adorable.”
Bond is very hands-on during the shows as well, Jobe Lea said.
“She is running the booth, she’s up front talking to the customers — it’s pretty cute to watch,” she said. “Once they start talking to her, they realize she makes them. It’s not just another bracelet.”
Bond has also used her business to give back. A fundraiser with Londyn’s Moments jewelry made $220 for her classroom at the beginning of the school year. When a friend of the family went on a medical mission trip to Peru, Bond sent bracelets along for the patients.
“I thought it was the nice thing to do,” Bond said.