If you're looking for sales, I occasionally do flash sales that are announced only on Instagram, so If you're interested in that, you should go follow me there! Instagram.com/manicmetals

In my life, I hold lots of roles - metalsmith, artist, human, wife and mother, but that doesn't really say much about me. I love to learn things, experience new cultures and new places, spend time in nature, make stuff, and generally experience what the world has to offer. It's truly amazing, and I really want to see as much of it as I can!

The studio is often cluttered with multiple projects and materials and tools, mainly because I love to explore when I work. I like playing with the metals and the stones, trying to see them and how they fit together and sometimes that's done with sketching and sometimes I just make a bunch of components and play dress-up with stones and metals. It's always a fun and totally creatively meditative process, and I make lots of messes.

My background is in art, I've been taking classes since I was five in various art disciplines, and I went to college for it. I have an Associate degree in Graphics Design, but I really didn't like the work - I like to touch and feel and work with my hands, and with Graphic design, you do that on a board and in a virtual space, and it's not tactile enough. So I went back to school and got a BFA with a minor in Art History. Ever since, I've been making stuff and selling it to you!

I live and work and do festivals and fairs in Rochester, New York, where it's never warm enough, with my husband, son, and our ever-evolving menagerie of animals.

If you have any questions, feel free to contact me, I love to hear from people!