Rachael Kinsey Designs

05/09/2026

Mama’s dream stack I was working on this week before I got sidetracked by shark teeth. But the creative process just be like that sometimes. 🙃

I found these sweet vintage mother charms and vintage chain that felt like they already had stories in it, and built the whole stack around them.

Went back to my roots with a hand beaded choker with citrine sitting right at the throat sprinkled with faceted baby tormalines, turquoise chips, and grounding hematite.

This lariat design was haunting me for weeks. Love playing with structure and movement! More citrine, more chain, with pops apatite, tourmaline, and an unexpected cowrie shell.

After talking with mamas lately, the thread is simple… we’re all just craving rest and love. This stack feels like one big juicy hug, something soft to wear and hopefully something that trickles outward from my hands into yours. 🫶

Pop into Crafted Outpost to see it in person ❤️

04/22/2026

04/19/2026

Every season I make myself a piece (or a stack) to hold me through it.

And y’all know I’ve been deep in an ammonite + rainbow tourmaline moment…
ancient spirals, full spectrum light 🌈
for protection, balance, heart opening… all woven together 🌀

Brass has been my metal since the beginning.
I love how it shifts with you…
Let it oxidize to darken or you can bring it back to a shine when you’re ready.

Pulled some vintage chain into the mix and built the stack from there. Layered with a vintage zodiac totem + rose necklace.
Little relics. Little reminders.

I love when old trinkets meet gems 🫶

So I made one for me…
and one for the shop.

Available at during Spring Fest today ✨

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04/18/2026

Bolo & Bloom bar is BACK baby!

New upcycled + gemstone heavy ⚡️ bolos out TODAY. Each one layered to welcome in the new season.

Mix your leather, end cap gems, and slides or grab one already saddled up to wear 🤠

Leave with a fresh spring bouquet, because everything is better with flowers 💐

Swing on by for first dibs! Just in time for Spring Fest tomorrow 🌿

03/22/2026

Through the equinox portal to my aunt Terri’s lake house… where mermaids and banana pickle salad awaits! 

Our family crone, an initiator of worlds,
who first opened my eyes to crystals, metaphysics, and jewelry making as a teen.

I only bring the worthy ones to see her.
Timing felt important. Or convenient?

She welcomed us with pickle banana salad, pasta with marshmallows, and hot dogs on carrot sticks. 🤢 
Like Hansel and Gretel, but no one tried to eat us. Which, lately, feels worth noting.

We dipped our toes in the water. Napped by the water. Communed with the water.

My aunt channeled what came before us, not asking for answers, just listening.
Letting the lake hold what didn’t need to be carried anymore.

Giant bumblebees never stopped buzzing.
“From Venus,” according to my aunt.
I don’t know… but it felt sexy.

The spring equinox ☯️
everything holding its opposite without collapsing.

Ben’s water ♓️ I’m fire ♐️
Both with fiery ♈️ moons 
So no one evaporated.

I used to think love needed tension and butterflies… something to decode.

Turns out it can also feel like laying in the buzzing 🐝 sun while people you trust exist beside you.

I’ll never forget this season of endings.
Happiness, I think, is simple. 
to love and be loved.
Maybe that’s why we’re here at all?

I laugh at my own delusions that it was ever that serious to begin with.

I may figure out life before I figure out this fancy Polaroid 🙃

03/05/2026

Interrupting the jewelry feed to wish this fine specimen of a human a big ole happy birthday.

Your smile is infectious and your presence is magnetic. You see the world like a movie… catching the little in between moments most people miss and I love getting to look at it through your eyes.

Life is so dang sweet with you in it… and somehow it just keeps getting sweeter.

Kyuss says he loves you because you bring me ease… and you like the same things he likes. And I only take dating advice from him these days.

I gush so hard I lose my words. Just loving this love big.

Happy birthday, darlin. ❤️

02/20/2026

Feeling that Sacred Rage ⚡️as of late (thanks to my Aries moon)

I’ve had a primal life force living inside me since I was born. A shadow I’ve had to feed, only to find out it was one of my greatest gifts…
Funny how that works.

When I was younger, I had to fight it out of my body.
On the basketball court… screaming, diving for the ball, temper flaring.
On swim team… holding my breath, pushing past my edge, letting it all erupt.

It came out as rage. As heat. As something too big to hold.

Now it moves differently.

Creativity releases it.
Somatics soften it.
Nature steadies it.

Life moves through me without obstruction now.
Creativity animates every inch of my existence.

It doesn’t awaken through force.
It awakens through effortless effort.

Everything feeds everything else,
charged in nature,
nurtured and mirrored in my intimate relationship,
expressed through jewelry and design,
even in the way I mother.

Motherhood didn’t strip my creativity.
It amplified it.
It brought raw edges,
truth,
complexity.

It rises when I move with my son… in play, in motion, in laughter… that fierce love fully alive in our bodies.

The rage didn’t disappear.
It became fire in a hearth instead of a wildfire.

Contained.
Channeled.
Alive.
Never burned out.
Never meant to.
A sacred gift.

Today, I do not consent to the siphoning of my life force. I claim it fully for myself and for others.

02/18/2026

Didn’t plan on custom bolos taking over this year, but I’m diggin it 🤠

Laying out stones.
Connecting through color, texture, and movement.

I’m in it for the yaps & stories…
why they’re drawn to that one,
what they’re stepping into.

If you’ve followed my work for years, you know I shift mediums. A lot.
But the thread’s always the same:
Energy.
Alignment.
And yes… you’ll always leave looking + feeling fly 😎

Diggin it so much I’m now offering custom bolos alongside my other custom pieces when I’m in the shop Wednesdays & Saturdays. Out of town? DM’s are open 💌
Come create with me 💫

02/07/2026

Tomorrow ✨ Sunday 2/8 | 12-4
Build your own Bolo + Bloom Bar at the Valentine’s Market 💘

Revived vintage & gemstone bolos: choose your end caps, leather, and slide 🤍
Our Bloom Bar is going mobile 🌹 build a bouquet for yourself or surprise someone you love with fresh blooms

Plus, I’ll be dropping a new jewelry collection ✨

Come create, wander, and check out some of Wilmington’s incredibly talented local makers. 🖤

01/28/2026

Throwing it back to 2016.
Closing out a decade with gratitude.
2016 was the most heartbreaking year of my life and also the year everything began to change.

I had just birthed Kyuss. A marriage ended. I was experiencing love and loss at the same time, with no idea how to hold both. I left my v secure design job in San Francisco, my homies, my whole damn identity.

Moved across the country… then again before Ky turned one.

I tried to push the pain away and keep going, but it followed me everywhere. So I slowed down. Moved in with my parents at 31 😅. Created space to actually be present with my grief instead of letting it haunt me.

I began to take my jewelry passion seriously-ish. Picked up a part time design gig at . Practiced yoga every damn day, until it started to lift me out of the fog, carrying me all the way to my first Yoga Teacher Training at (Kyuss even came along)

I invested that first year into motherhood and my mental and physical health. I simplified. I isolated on purpose. I created an environment that served my son and me.

I connected to little Rach- the one who was still dreaming- and asked her what kind of life she wanted. I wrote it down. I visualized it. And slowly began walking her path.

I could write a whole dang book on that year, because this little post will never sum it up.

But looking at these photos now, I don’t see abandonment, loss, or fear.

I see a resilient, creative mama exiting a system that never supported women, choosing presence over avoidance, and hand building a beautiful, adventurous life for her and her son without no man.
And I’m so proud of her I could cry.

Things haven’t gotten easier, but my capacity to carry both suffering and joy has expanded.

If you’re in the middle of heartbreak or transition, keep going. Slowing down the rat race isn’t a step back, it’s often the start of everything. 🌱

01/23/2026

Finished up some ammonite customs this week and had to round ‘em up in all their glory! 🤠 Always wild to see people gravitate toward the same gems in the shop… though my ammonite obsession may be a tad bit infectious.🙄

Either way, it’s a reminder that we’re all interconnected, something that feels especially comforting in these divided times. These ammonite fossils are cut open in twin pairs, so one always goes to someone else. Like ammonites, ancient ocean energy pulling us into the same spiral. 🌊🌀

These are heading to their new homes, but I made a couple new 🌀 beauties for and made to order online. Come peep them in the shop! We’re here 11-6pm today 💫