Hi, I have been designing and teaching beadwork for about 10 years. Over the years, making jewelry has been my favorite way to explore with color and design. I have always loved to draw, paint and sew but once I started using glass beads as the medium, the ability to play with color has never been so much fun. I also found that I enjoyed teaching others how to bead and sharing my designs. I have written many articles about beading that were published in both Bead and Button and Beadwork magazines in the last few years, as well as contributing to many of their other project books. In January of 2002, I started a beading group at Yahoo called Beadchat ( http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Beadchat ) We now have over 3,000 members world wide. If you love to bead and you like to discuss what you do with people the world over, you can join Beadchat for free. All you need is a Yahoo ID. You can ask questions, discuss techniques and make friends with people who love beading as much as you do. We share photos of our work and we have files in the group with instructions on beading and links to inspirational bead sites.
This is the first time I have had my beadwork for sale online. I have been with the local Farmers Market in Puyallup, Washington every Spring and Summer for the last 7 years and my clients have always wanted me to have my jewelry available all year round. This year I have finally opened my own web-site. This is still my first few months and I am sure it will take a little time to upload photos of my jewelry into the shop pages. I will update this Home page as I work on getting the photos into the site and if you have any questions or suggestions, feel free to email me using the link at the top of the page. I would still like to have a few kits available but it seems everything takes more time than I have, but I promise to work on getting some kits up!
FREE SHIPPING on jewelry purchases! I do have some of my jewelry photos on the Jewelry shopping page, and I plan on adding more as the photos of the jewelry are edited to work with the site. Each piece of jewelry is one-of-a-kind. I do enjoy making variations in color for a new design so I often have similar pieces of jewelry in the same design but in different colors. I hope you enjoy looking through the jewelry.
In the patterns section (E-Books) I may have the instructions for a piece of jewelry you would like to make for your self, for friemds, gifts, or pin money but please don't mass produce for commercial use. I have instructions with step-by-step detailed information and large full color diagrams to help make it easy to duplicate a stunning piece of jewelry that you can make yourself.
E-BOOKS: You will receive a link in an email to download the book If you lose it, you will be able to go back to the locker and get it at any time. You will receive the link for the book within 24 hours. In the future I hope to bring instant downloads to the site.
