I began beading as a "Girls night out activity" and fell in love with it! I opened my shop after I began to receive requests for designs specifically made by me at the bead shop I was working at . A lot of my designs have a strong connection to my growing up on the West Coast, but I can not deny the fact that I love living in the Midwest now and it also has a powerful influence in my designs. When these two worlds collide in my design we call it Snowflakes and Waves! I see power in both of these things! Snowflakes being so tiny and so perfectly individual and yet they can make such a strong statement when they want to. the Waves are so rhythmic and relaxing to watch yet powerful enough to wipe out an entire town!