Hi - I'm Pam. Thank you for visiting my site. I started making lanyards in 2000 because I was bored with the pop chains given out at work for ID badges. I was a DoD employee until I retired in July 2014, but I still sold at my former place of work until COVID shut that down. I was an artist for four years at Art A La Carte Gallery in Occoquan, Virginia, and now I am at Amapola Gallery in Old Town Albuquerque. I sell at select juried craft shows in NM too.
I enjoy beading, and try to keep my pieces affordable but interesting. Some of my necklaces have been on exhibit at the Bead Museum (Washington, DC) and The Workhouse Arts Center (Lorton, VA). I have placed in competitions at Woodlawn Needlework Exhibit (Alexandria, VA), and at Beadazzled (Tyson's Corner, VA). I moved to New Mexico in June 2017, where I am active with the Bead Society of New Mexico. I have won ribbons in the County and State Fairs, and my COVID jewelry appeared in Bead & Button Magazine (Oct 2020) and on display in the Albuquerque Museum (April 2021).
Testimony from March 2012: Dear Pamela, I received the re stringed lanyard and showed it to all my co-workers who loved it! You have my sincerest gratitude for agreeing to do this for me. Yes, I've owned it since 2007 and care to own no other. I have worked at several distinguished institutions where my lanyard caught a lot of attention and praise. Some of these places include, The Getty Museum, The Autry National Center for Study of the American West, Pepperdine University in Malibu, CA and USC. You can imagine my devastation when it broke loose in a busy L.A. shopping center and I crawled on all fours trying to gather all the beads (ha!). Of all the lanyards on etsy this one is by far the loveliest. I would not mind owning a duplicate. Regardless if all the folks who've shown praise since 2007 had bought one, I think you'd be overwhelmed with business. My sincerest thanks you to and God bless.
