Gulten Dye

Gulten Dye, The Never-Ending Creator

BY JOAN S. PECK

Not everyone who creates is a true artist—an artist who instinctively senses how to combine crystals, stones, and colors to design something uniquely exquisite. Gulten Dye innately senses and sees inside your soul, which causes her many times to reach for one of her pieces of jewelry you might not have considered. When she places it around you, the feel of it against you makes you sigh with the knowledge that this piece is perfect for you.

Gulten Dye jewelry creations are unique, and it doesn’t matter how many pieces of jewelry you already have of hers, it is never enough. We love everything she creates, and we want it all. As a designer, Gulten can see how to improve upon what already exists in the market as far as clasps, and integral pieces that are a part of jewelry making. She has manufactured many such designs that are hers alone that were featured on the cover of Inventors magazine.

Gulten was born and raised in a small town in Turkey and moved with her family to Istanbul as a small child. It was there that she earned a bachelor’s degree in nursing and worked as a nurse at a local hospital before moving to the Philippines with her future husband, who was serving in the US military.

A short while later, they moved to Shreveport, Louisiana, where she immediately began her studies to work as a Registered Nurse. While studying for her boards, she was allowed to work as a scrub technician in an operating room at a nearby surgery center. She passed her boards and worked in an operating room at a busy University Medical Trauma Center as a staff nurse for several years until she earned the position of Charge Nurse.

Gulten moved to Las Vegas in 1995, and six years later, she was divorced and living with her two young sons. To spend more time with her boys, she looked for ways to make money by working at home and limiting her 12-hour days as a nurse to no more than three a week.

Making jewelry became an instant success, and before she realized it, creating beautiful jewelry pieces became her sole source of income as her success grew. “It took over my life!”

Annalee showcases jewelry designed by Gulten Dye

What was your first piece like?

GD: “It was a simple pearl necklace with three other stones. As I discovered more and more beautiful stones and crystals, my one-of-a-kind pieces became more elaborate.

What are your favorite stones to use?

GD: “Some days certain stones draw my attention and other days it’s something else. It’s why I’m able to create so many different things because my brain sees something new each time I see them. I love them all. I keep creating, and I’m like a writer who’s never finished.”
Gulten found her talent and passion in creating one-of-a-kind jewelry pieces and sold them to well-known people, such as Celine Dion, Rachel Ray, and Mary Higgins Clark. She became an international success when her work showed on Entertainment Tonight and Insider and was for sale in the Mirage, Bellagio boutiques for more than eight years in Las Vegas. For several years, Gulten sold her jewelry on luxury cruise liners, including Crystal Cruises, Regent Seven Seas, and Oceana cruise liners. That allowed Gulten to travel and see the world in style while she gave lectures and met thousands of clients first hand.

It was during the Costco roadshows that she first started to experiment with creating interchangeable pieces. After designing her first interchangeable jewelry line, she perfected a “LEGO” of bridge line jewelry to give beautiful women from all over the world the possibility and the tools to create their own unique, elegant, quality pieces to express who they were through their jewelry.

Jewelry designed by Gulten Dye

What inspired your interchangeable jewelry designs?

GD: “I wanted to give value to a customer to able to wear a piece more than one way as their mood changed—like clothes. I wanted to be able to allow them to be creative in how they wore a piece. I wanted them to experience the same sense of peace I do when I create—that moment of silence while putting pieces together that will give them the same joy that I get when I’m creating.”

For many of us, we attended Gulten’s very successful monthly in-house gatherings, where we partied, and her jewelry was available for sale. We had such fun as we fussed over each jewelry piece and swapped with each other to get the one we wanted. It was always fabulous fun to walk away with another “Gulten Dye” creation. Her work is recognizable enough that it’s easy to tell her pieces from all the others available to us.

All of us laughed when we heard this true story that got back to Gulten. Two female doctors were at the hospital involved in an emergency, rolling a gurney down a long hallway together toward the operating room. One of the doctors noted what the other was wearing. She turned and asked, “Is that a Gulten Dye?”

That is what I call a success story. However…

When did you realize you were a success?

GD: I don’t. I consider myself still a work-in-progress. I think that the effort I put into something is what I receive.

I know that you’re an author. How many books have you written now?

GD: “Five. I self-published my first book, “Semi-Coma – Evolution of my Intermittent Consciousness” in 2011, a book of self-discovery. My second book, “The Missing Link to Success,” follows my personal journey to success. My two poetry books came next and a powerful novel called “Through the Silence of the Darkness.” All my books are available on all book sites.

Jewelry Designed by Gulten Dye

Tell me about the “concept” stores you created.

GD: “In 2013, I opened my new concept store where I sold not only my designs but included many local artists of different mediums, including a local authors section. In turn, for being able to sell their creations in my store, all artists had to agree to teach others their medium for the future generation of free thinkers. It was very cool.”

“In 2015, I was two of the seventy stores that opened on the busiest corners of Las Vegas Blvd, which was short-lived because more than half of the stores closed their doors less than six months later, and I closed my doors a little later.

What would you like to happen with your creations?

GD: “I would like to see my creations on QVC or the Home Shopping Network.”

Take a moment and watch this short video, and you will understand the unique creativity that is Gulten’s.

Every once in a while, a genuinely talented artist emerges, an artist whose creations never remain the same, but continuously change to satisfy the artist’s new way of looking at what can be created. Gulten Dye is that rare, unique creator of so much beauty. What joy she brings to the world with her creations!