Veritas Designs

Hello fellow San Antonians! Welcome to the official first post of handmade in SA! I am happy you are here and excited to show you the goods available in our area.

Our first post highlights Veritas Designs, a classy place to buy handmade hair accessories. Veritas Designs just unveiled is new fall line, and the pieces are unique and beautiful. Below is my interview with Geneva, the owner of Veritas Designs. Go and LIKE them on Facebook!


HSA: Can you tell us a little about yourself and your business?
    I am blessed to be a stay-at-home mama to two, sweet girls (with a third on the way!), and I have always been disappointed with the quality of hair accessories available for my budget, so I started making classy hair accessories for my girls and their friends and received so many compliments and inquiries about them that I decided to start a little, home business. It's been a wonderful creative outlet for that quiet time after the kids go to sleep.
 

HSA: How did you come up with the name "Veritas Designs"?

    Well, for starters, the word Veritas is Latin for Truth.  There's a beautiful poem by John Keats called "Ode Upon a Grecian Urn," and the last two lines are "Beauty is truth, truth beauty," - that is all / Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know." As someone who believes that the Good, the True, and the Beautiful are all the same, I thought Veritas would be a fun and clever reminder to come up with designs that are not merely cute or part of a fad, but are truly beautiful, as well as pointing to a higher Beauty, in the Platonic sense.  Haha, forgive me for waxing eloquent...

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

HSA: What has been your favorite piece to make?

   Is it silly to say that each time I come up with a new design, it becomes my new, favorite thing? :) I really do like working with wispy materials like chiffon or silk.  They make such delicate, realistic looking flowers. My favorite pieces are always the custom designs, usually for weddings; they allow me to turn someone else's dream into a reality and really challenge me!

 

 

 

HSA: What do you hope to see for Veritas Designs in the future?

   Lol, my friends and family get onto me all the time for not being more streamlined or ambitious! I have a terrible head for business, but I really am passionate about the quality and uniqueness of each item I make, so the process of making new or customized pieces never becomes stale for me. 

I can't see myself hiring on anyone else, or expanding into a storefront with multiple copies of the same item because the individuality of each item is precious to me, and I'd rather keep things personal and at a manageable size for me to continue to put out quality pieces. Still, having a greater fan base with more ideas for custom pieces is definitely a hope of mine. That's why I just started having one sale night per week where I sell ready-to-ship pieces at awesome prices to the fastest shoppers. :)

 

HSA: Just for fun, what is your favorite food?

My food tastes vary just as much as my creative tastes, but one item I've loved my whole life, when prepared with fresh ingredients and good spices, is spaghetti (or most pasta dishes in general...)! As long as there is plenty of Parmesan cheese and fresh vegetables, I'm in!

 

Thanks so much to Geneva of Veritas Designs for this interview!  ~ Veronica

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your handmade in SA curator, Veronica