ReaganJuel

To say I've evolved is well kind of an understatement. I seriously started out making glass bead stretchy bracelets we got in a kit from SAMS club. That moved onto upcycled broken vintage jewelry, because well I adore vintage jewelry, and hated that it got thrown out. Which got me going to art shows and listing on Etsy. But I wanted to be the best at it so I took a year of metalsmithing to get better at finishing. And left it a smith at heart. So the metals were just a corner of my booth, then they were a 1/3, then a half. Then I split the whole thing down the middle to see what one sold better and hands down it was the metals. It's not that I wasn't good at the vintage, but so many other people were doing it by now, and I knew in my heart that I needed to focus on the skills I had and they did not. So the smithed stuff, it's a much different animal than the vintage. That one usually is just ideas that pop into my head and become an obsession. Like the Neon line. That idea was born from a piece of clip art that a friend used on her website to advertise her junk show event. It was a photo of an old neon sign that was set in a metal box, hung from chains, and said 'jackpot'. I saw that, saved it off on my computer, and thought, 'how cool would it be if you could take that concept and make it into jewelry? And so I did, and it was really hard to figure out how to do, but that is why it was fun. And so I keep doing. Push harder, learn more, do new things.

So that in a nutshell what I do and why. I love to do custom orders too. Nothing to me is more special than when I can take your life and work it into something or create something new. I welcome you. Please take a bit to look around.