Handmade from the Heart Stone and Glass Jewelry

Well… Duh… I realized at some point yesterday I don’t have a good bio page.  This will be it, as I write it.

To start,  I’ve been making jewelry for close to a dozen years.  Ok, so most of that time I was just old enough to drive.  I had the plastic pony beads that seemingly all kids had, I used them on fringe for shirts, necklaces, bracelets and whatever else I could manage to make.  At some point, I graduated to glass and stone.  Family trips suddenly included a stop at a beading store for me, and other craft stores for my mother (mainly fabrics for quilting).

Some time in there, dad pulled out a beading loom, and my mom requested something to hold her glasses, which she only wore part time.  Another trip to the bead store, and a pattern was decided upon, and off I went.  Then a hat band for me… and I was hooked.  There was a bead store in the same building my parents worked, and she needed some help, so I helped her out.  Any time the store was empty, I was free to work on my own projects… did I mention I was hooked??

Fast forward a few years, where most of my skills went towards repairing items… I need a creative outlet.  Not to mention, with a tumbler rolling, eventually there is a ton of shiny little pretty rocks that are just becking to have something done with them.  Ok, not a ton literally… but there’s quite a few.