Basically I started my shop because I made too much stuff! I would discover something I really liked doing and would go into what my studio mates called "production mode". The next thing I knew I had a complete line of jewelry in whatever I was working in...metal clay, polymer clay, flameworking, metal working,,,,,so clearly I had to find a way to sell it so I could make more stuff!! Along came Etsy and that made life much easier.

Like many post menopausal women, one day I stopped in a bead store that caught my eye. The next thing I knew I was buying and stringing beads day and night. Then I learned that I could MAKE my own beads in polymer and metal clay. After doing that for several years, I took a flameworking class and was mesmerized!

I spent 9 years in Rhode Island and was fortunate to meet a talented teacher, Kim Otterbein and she introduced me to many other wonderful teachers... the big names in polymer and metal clay. I've had a chance to study metalsmithing with some world class teachers, too. For several years, I had my studio in an old mill that I shared with several other artists. It was a teaching and membership studio so we always were surrounded by people creating something fabulous!

Now I'm back with my studio in my home and enjoying the benefits of working any time I want, in any kind of clothing, during blizzards and heat waves. It's not as convivial but it is a wonderful space with lots of room for all my passions. And I get to have my favorite feline assistants keeping me company.

I've been back to work fulltime for a year so my store has been neglected. Recently, I've decided that working fulltime is seriously cramping my creatively so back to the studio and production mode I go...now I just need to take pictures of everything I've created in the past couple of years. Stay tuned...