As featured in:

Boston Magazine:
http://www.bostonmagazine.com/fashion-style/blog/2015/10/19/newbury-handmade-market/#gallery-2-4

Makezine:
http://makezine.com/craft/printer-cable-bracelet/

Feelgood Style:
http://feelgoodstyle.com/2014/08/12/spotted-upcycled-jewelry-old-electronics/

While I love to make button jewelry, beaded jewelry, bird's nests, beach glass jewelry, and knitted items, I derive the most pleasure from my line of scientifically accurate heartbeat jewelry. I've been a nurse for 9 years now and I love medicine, particularly cardiology, but my passion is art. This dual love of medicine and art have since combined to form a unique array of scientifically-accurate heart arrhythmia jewelry. From normal sinus rhythm to heart attacks and everything in between, my heartbeat jewelry is not only very popular among expectant mothers, nurses, doctors, and other healthcare professionals, but is cute for everyone and makes a great gift for lovers of quirky jewelry. :)

What does scientifically accurate mean? Well, scientifically accurate means that as Becky Striepe from "Feelgood Style" puts it "Ann is a nurse...so you know those heartbeats are accurate." A simple zig-zag does not a heartbeat make. And unlike most "heartbeat" jewelry available through etsy or other retail sources, my heartbeats look like real heartbeats as seen on an EKG.

My pieces have been described as, "Conceptually engaging,", "expertly brought to life", "a design [that] can stand on its own", "fabulous...unusual and striking,", "exquisite", "precious", "adorable", "beautiful and delicate", "gorgeous and accurate", "elegant and conversational", and "a unique alternative to the usual gifts for nurses". I hope to only refine my technique as time passes.

Right now I spend my weekdays at my day job as a Nurse Practitioner and my free time either exploring the hiking trails around my house or in my studio where my bookshelves are lined with art books, buttons jars, and jewelry-making supplies. I try to spend as much time as I can on my art - the creation of which I find so therapeutic.

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Some FAQ's:

Q: How did you get into making heartbeat necklace?
A: I got into heartbeat necklaces one night in January 2013 when I was studying for a class and missing my days working as a cardiac nurse. I started thinking about how beautiful heartbeats were and how much I loved studying different heart arrhythmias. I then thought it would be interesting to make some necklaces of heartbeats out of wire. I went online to all the major retail sites to see if anyone had already done that (I hate when people steal my ideas and I'm not about to steal anyone else's) and found that all of the heartbeat rhythms already pictured on etsy (and elsewhere) were what we would call "unsustainable rhythms." That is, if a patient really had a rhythm like that, they would die or be not very far from it. Being a little bit of a perfectionist, this drove me a little crazy so I set out to make a series of scientifically-accurate sterling silver heartbeat necklaces: the first ones I've seen on Etsy or anywhere else for that matter. :)

Q: Why are your other pieces so expensive?
A: My pieces are individually hand-crafted by me and only me during my precious spare time. Each bead is chosen carefully, individually strung or wrapped, and each piece of wire is shaped to create the perfect piece of jewelry. The labor time involved in my jewelry pieces ranges from 15 minutes to 10+ hours and the prices reflect that accordingly.

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