Katharine McPhee is making her childhood goals a actuality.

Whereas the American Idol alum, 38, is thought for her powerhouse voice, for years she has held onto a “secret ardour:” Jewellery.

“It has been one thing that has lived in my mind for a very long time,” McPhee advised PEOPLE forward of the launch of her jewellery model KMF Jewellery. “I have been an avid fan of jewellery and jewellery purchaser and gift-giver of jewellery since I used to be actually a child.”

Although jewellery was one thing she cherished for years, she by no means considered it as one thing she would pursue past a pastime till she was linked with Ray Manzella by way of her good pal and businessman Greg Renker. Renker’s firm, Guthy-Renker, is behind Jennifer Lopez‘s JLO Magnificence and Cindy Crawford‘s Significant Magnificence.

“I had by no means had a dialog with anyone, aside from my very own mind, about having a jewellery line,” she recalled. “I simply at all times thought, ‘Oh, this could be so enjoyable. I might like to do one thing like this, however I am going to simply follow going to jewellery shops and residing out my jewellery goals that means.'”

She calls the circumstances that led up the launch of the model a consequence, partly, of manifestation.

“I actually imagine that it is actually necessary to put in writing down issues that you simply wish to obtain and even in your individual mind, like I used to be doing, saying issues that you’d love and need in your life, as a result of that is truthfully how this happened,” she mentioned.

The SMASH alum mentioned she was additionally approached concerning the enterprise at simply the proper second as she had newfound time to dedicate to the mission.

“I believe the truth that I had simply had my son and we had been nonetheless type of within the throes of COVID, I believe that it was an excellent time for me to have the ability to be at dwelling lots,” she mentioned.

“I actually had time to consider issues and ship photos forwards and backwards with the designer and design stuff myself — regardless that I am not an excellent drawer,” she continued. “So I believe that all of it coincided with the truth that I used to be a brand new mother and that regardless that I used to be busy and invested as a brand new mother and spending time at dwelling, it gave me the luxurious to be extra obtainable when it comes to emails and telephone calls and simply total conversations. It is lots more durable once you’re in several time zones and airplanes and it makes issues extra sophisticated.”

McPhee mentioned that watching all of the items now come collectively has been “so thrilling.”

“It is simply type of wild when you possibly can look again firstly and type of see the place you might be after which the place you wish to go,” she mentioned.

KMF Jewellery has been designed in partnership with Imperial Jewellery who’s manufacturing the items. The model will featurerings, necklaces, earrings and bracelets beginning at a worth level of $249. The items are available a wide range of supplies together with some which can be set in 14K gold, accented with diamonds, valuable and semi-precious stones, in addition to a group of micro-pavé and 18K vermeil sterling silver jewellery.

A few of the traces, McPhee defined, had been impressed by her favourite locations on the planet together with Los Angeles, Italy and the Gramercy neighborhood of Manhattan.

“Gramercy is predicated off of actually my favourite metropolis, which is New York Metropolis,” she mentioned. “And Gramercy — I picked an space of New York Metropolis that I like to spend time in. They have cool eating places, cool streets, trend — after I lived there for 2 years doing SMASH, I actually fell in love with trend.”

One other line, Concord, McPhee says has a particular place in her coronary heart as nicely.

“I used to have a cat named Concord that was named after my first main position in a film, which was The Home Bunny,” she mentioned. “And so I at all times like to recollect issues that gave me a begin. In order that’s type of an ode to my starting.”

The singer’s new enterprise enterprise comes almost two years after she and husband David Foster welcomed their first youngster collectively, Rennie (Together with Rennie, Foster additionally has daughters Allison, 52, Amy, 49, Sara, 41, Erin, 40, and Jordan, 36, from earlier relationships.) McPhee mentioned that whereas she is “open to actually something” profession clever, since turning into a mother she has turn into “much more selective” about how lengthy she desires to be away from dwelling for work as household comes “utterly and one hundred percent first.”

McPhee, who starred in Waitress on Broadway and London’s West Finish says she’d like to return to the stage but it surely must be the “proper one” with a purpose to justify transferring her household.

“I actually wish to go for issues that I like probably the most and produce me probably the most pleasure,” she mentioned. “And if this [jewelry brand] finally ends up actually — to this point, it has been nice — if it continues to, if it does nicely and it is enjoyable and I am having fun with the method then perhaps it will find yourself being a full time job I do not know. I am actually open to something, however I simply do know that household is first. And so no matter these decisions I make, I’ve to make in consideration to my husband and my little son.”

She and Foster, 73, who tied the knot in June 2019, have been on the street touring for the previous few months and can proceed to take action into the brand new yr. She mentioned they “choose and select” which journeys to convey their son on, as touring with a bit one may be unpredictable.

“However the factor is, it may be actually, actually laborious however my angle is at all times, it is a lot extra enjoyable to have him on the street after we do have him with us,” she mentioned. “So it is such a brief time period too. They’re solely little for thus lengthy, so we’re simply type of soaking it up.”