I started making jewelry as a child and had my first jewelry business in the 7th grade. I sold macrame friendship bracelets to other kids in sports team colors. These bracelets were a huge hit and I had to hire my best friend and her mom to help me fulfill orders. Soon, I was making $35 a day and that is a lot of candy money! Sadly, the school principal had to shut me down because kids were spending their lunch money on my bracelets and parents were upset! 🤣

I continued to make jewelry throughout my life and enhanced my skill level gradually taking classes at local gem and mineral societies and community colleges. Ten years ago I decided to open a shop here on Etsy after a landlord of mine kept buying pieces I made for gifts to give away. He encouraged me to try this place he had heard about called Etsy. The rest is history. I now sell on Etsy full time and it’s a dream come true!

I love jewelry not only because it’s beautiful, but because it’s a way that human beings have used since the beginning of human history to show their identities, spiritual beliefs, memories, loves, grief, power, and everything else. It is the poetry we wear on our bodies to say who we are. In fact, one of the first things to separate modern humans as distinctive from our earlier primate ancestors was when we started making and wearing jewelry. In short: jewelry literally makes us human.

I am honored to be able to make beautiful things for you and every time a customer chooses my shop, I feel so much gratitude and know it is a sacred thing to be chosen to create someone’s treasures or the gifts they give during life’s most precious milestones.

Thanks for visiting my shop!

I have a work in progress jewelry supply shop here on Etsy called @ChildrenOfTime! Check it out for unique and interesting jewelry and jewelry supplies!