As winter thaws and spring and summer bring warmer temperatures and lifted spirits, expect your customers to search for the best and brightest tableware and accessories. Guide their urge to decorate with iridescent bowls perfect for fresh appetizers, tumblers that tickle the hand, and coasters that bring the outdoors to the table.

As summer turns to autumn, backyards, gardens and patios are in high demand for gatherings, cookouts or just quiet moments to oneself. We’ve gathered a selection of outdoor accessories that will help your customers beautify and personalize their at-home escapes.

Jewelry is more than adornment. It’s an expression of the wearer. For these eight studio artists, the urge to create is incessant, and is inspired by organic and man-made details. The work sometimes mixes mediums, but always illustrates a mastery of technique and form.

Rachel Sims first encountered glass at age 16, when a local artist asked her to demonstrate flame-working at the Iowa State Fair. She followed that experience with a degree in jewelry and metalsmithing at the Rhode Island School of Design and a master’s in accessory design at the Creative Academy in Milan, Italy. She worked for a decade designing watches in Geneva, Switzerland, before deciding to launch her Corning, Iowa, studio fuzzishü in 2007. Today she mixes metal and glass to create vibrant, high-energy pieces.