Where it started.

The very first forms of jewelry were worn some 90,000 years ago. They were mostly bead necklaces constructed from shells to make charms hanging off hair or crude rope. Luckily this craft has gained some refinement.

I first started making jewelry in elementary school at an after school program and from there it never really stopped. As my mother always says " I knew she was different when at the age of 7 I found her taking apart our old land line phone, she put it back together and it still worked". I've always had this craving to create and understand the world around me. I paint, draw and went to school for design but nothing has really stuck like making jewelry. Some of my first real "fine" jewelry was small glass seed beads strung together to make tiny flowers, butterflies and other more abstract shapes. More recently I've been playing with chain maille and fine silver fusing. This blog will follow that adventure with some how to thrown in.