byAngeline

My entire life I have loved and collected rocks and beach treasures. I have always felt a sense of magic and wonder with them. I grew up in the pacific northwest collecting agates on my family farm and the Oregon coast. I began selling rocks door to door when I was just five years old. I come from a family of sensitives and artists and have never wanted to be anything else. At the age of 16 my father Emery Bear began painting angels and I was blessed to be able to travel around with him selling his art and discovering magic and wonder in our world. This experience of traveling from metaphysical and new age shops and shows led me to rock carving, crystal healing, gemstone therapy and my first piece of selenite. I began collecting and selling more and more crystals, creating and selling belly charms for pierced bellies. In 1997 I suddenly became a single mother of two very young children. We went out on the road and sold my little belly charms to small boutiques all across the US in order to get us to Florida where I intended to attend a jewelers school. I always imagined creating jewelry would give me a great excuse to play with rocks everyday! After arriving in Florida my financial help fell through and with two tiny kids to raise on my own and little education I headed to Colorado to work. We lived happily in the Rocky mountains where I worked at a ski resort and we spent everyday on the mountain. My kids were skiing by the time they were three years old and I rode my snowboard everyday. We always do our best to make the most out of our situation. I was introduced to white water rafting when I was recommended for a summer mountain job and started my training, I fell in love with white water! At the end of the best summer of my life I suffered severe injuries when crushed by a giant raft while loading boats on the trailer at the end of a guide trip on the Colorado River. As fate would have it vocational rehab sent me to jewelers school back in my home state of Oregon and helped me purchase my casting equipment to work from home and run my own business. My accident became my greatest gift!. Selling my creations created with my own two hands online has allowed me to support my family and be home to raise my children at the same time. I feel so grateful to be living my dream. I have learned our minds and hearts are much greater then we can ever imagine and no matter what anyone tells you follow your heart and dreams. I love every moment of what I do. I am grateful to be fulfilling my life's passions. Transforming metal with fire is incredibly magical and I am in awe each time I spin molten precious metal! I Believe Everything happens exactly as it is meant to be. I love this beautiful planet we call home and her amazing treasures she shares with us. I hope to create one of a kind treasures as individual as you are to last for many generations to come. Many blessings to you. Angeline

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