Teething Bling Combines Fashion with Practicality
Amy Creel of Silver Spring is head of Smart Mom Jewelry, a company that sells the first and original line of baby teething jewelry.
It was a typical day at church. The priest was giving his sermon while the parishioners listened intently. Eighteen-month-old Alice was fiddling with her mother’s necklace when all of a sudden, the necklace snapped. “A bunch of the pearls went bouncing under the pews. It was kind of an embarrassing moment that became a little bit of a light bulb,” Amy Maurer Creel, Alice’s mother, said. “I thought there’s got to be some way to wear some kind of jewelry that isn’t going to end up getting broken or ruined. I was certain that the idea must already exist.” Creel, a Silver Spring resident, was surprised to find that there was no baby-safe jewelry on the market in 2002. That light bulb would spark the idea for Smart Mom Jewelry, a company that …
