LollyPOPsicle Earrings

Eilee Belle Difrischia became an entrepreneur at the age of 12. Her father, brought home one day, from his business (more explained later) a giant box of old, dirty polymer clay with only about 8 colors in it. A few minutes later, with a bit of explaining and help from their father, her and her siblings were shaping and creating many different small trinkets, from keychains to Lego pieces.

One day, she wanted to wear her cherry earrings to match her church dress, but her earrings broke. So she quickly threw red clay balls in her toaster oven to make a pair of earrings. Her grandma liked them so much she wanted a pair. That is how her brand LollyPOPcicle started.

Eilee has been making extremely intricate clay earrings for 6 years now. Expanding the earrings she offers, from food to holiday themes and clay to paper to 3D printing.

She currently spends only her spare free time invested in the business. Eilee has made her small hobby into a light job that can pretty easily pay her future bills. She also just started an Instagram profile so she could potentially get some traction online, but she doesn’t sell online. She earns a small revenue from selling them at a physical store. In a generation like this one, successfully selling in person, in a brick-and-mortar business is really difficult to do. She sells her earrings at her parents’ toy store, Playthings Etc. (the world’s coolest toy store, really close to Grove City). Her best sellers are made of clay.

She is a young entrepreneur who pursued a dream from a young age and can now live off of a hobby. (AKA, the world’s most amazing friend, my sister! Love you, girl. Keep going <3)