After working nearly a decade in various traditional brick and mortar retail customer service / sales associate roles, I was able to quit work and focus full time on my fiance and son in 2010, and plan our "DIY" wedding.

A month before our wedding, in April 2011, I started my shop with my Personalized Monogram Cufflinks listing, using my husband's cufflinks from the wedding as my "prototype" for photographs. My first jewelry listing was actually the earrings I had made for myself for our wedding. I quickly grew my Etsy shop from there! I now try to keep over 200 active listings, while expanding my products and evolving into more complicated and unique designs.

I currently utilize Swarovski Crystallized elements, Czech Glass beads, titanium & stainless steel findings, and nickel-free plated metals. In the very near future, I plan to expand into Precious Metal Clay, gold and silver filled metals, more elaborate gemstones, metalworking, and more designs utilizing resin.

All of my crafting ability is God given. It has been developed solely through art classes taken through grade school and finishing in high school. I have also gained quite a bit of knowledge from my ten years as a Girl Scout, and just by experimenting with different mediums and ideas.

My "Bermuda Blue" Swarovski collection garners quite a bit of attention while doing local Craft Shows. This collection is quite special to me - I decided to craft with these crystals in honor of my best friend's mother, Ruth, who passed away due to ALS aka Lou Gehrig's disease just a few years ago. I donate part of the proceeds to the yearly Youngstown Walk to Defeat ALS to raise funds to find a cure for this 100% fatal disease.

I am currently entering my fourth year of undergraduate studies, attending full time pursuing a Sociology degree with a minor in Criminal Justice.