In a showroom in a Tustin business complex recently, women bustled around, looking at rings, earrings, bracelets and other fashion accessories.
Debbie Millar — clad in leather leggings and a crimson-colored top, and radiating with a crystal and gold necklace and wrist cuff — walked over to a collection featuring pearls and picked up one of the jewelry line’s latest creations.
“This is one my favorites,” Millar said.
Millar, a wife and mother of six children ranging in age from 16 to 22, is the new owner of ViVi, an accessories — primarily jewelry — company formally known as Cookie Lee.
She bought the company last year when her friend, Lee, the founder and namesake, decided to end her 23-year reign over one of the most successful home-grown success stories in Orange County.
At ViVi, stay-at-home moms