3D Jewelry Design Biography
Source (google.com.pk )I am completely and unabashedly addicted to beading. I'm wife to "Mr. Selfless" and part-time, home school mom to two remarkable boys (no, I'm not biased)! I also provide 24 hour bellhop service to my Golden Retriever and farm kitty. In my spare time, I can be found with a cup of tea, a chick flick in the DVD player and a tray full of sparkly beads waiting to be created into a little piece of joy. This is so much more cathartic than folding laundry!
Beyond that, I love the Lord and am grateful for the beauty He created around us. Showing this in the form of jewelry and sharing it with others is what I love.
I started making jewelry in 2009 because I really needed an indoor "girly" hobby. We'd just moved to a farm in Idaho and the weather didn't agree with my "delicate disposition". In other words, I'm a complete wimp when it comes to cold, windy weather. Trying to garden in a zone 2-3 didn't help either. I quickly found out that beading and I were like "peas and carrots". I just loved everything about it. I enjoy the process of beading as well as the result. It's a journey where learning is always happening, techniques are constantly refined, and creativity reigns. I'm amazed by the vast diversity of materials that are out there and what can be done to make beautiful designs.
With the prompting (a gentle kick in the rear) of several artists and beading enthusiasts, I started sharing my designs and doing a little teaching, too. More of my little hobby can be seen on my blog, www.pennydixondesigns.com.
Svetlana Einy
Olam Shel Charuzim, Israel
Svetlana Einy was born in the beautiful naturalistic place of Russia - in South Siberia. It's a very picturesque place. It is so beautiful blue lakes and rivers, snow and rocky mountains, green valleys, blue sky... More over the nature changes it's colors through all the seasons, so you can't stay apathetic to it. Definitely my birth place gave me a lot of inspiration to my art works.
Today I live in Israel, it's another beautiful place in the world. So , I am very inspired from this country too : first - middle east, then - a large number of cultures and finally - SSS ( sea, sun and sand).
My story of beading is even more interesting then the one's of my birth and living places. I met my future husband in the bead store. Since I have a lot of love to beading and to my family. I have been beading for 8 years. During these years a lot of my dreams came true and not only with beading as we have two little boys too.
During these years I learned a lot about beading, I have participated in the "Create Your Style " with Swarovski components competitions twice and have been included into semi finalists section both times.
Now I enjoy working at our bead store in Israel. I like to design new pieces of art from all types of beads. I like to mix different kinds of beads in my jewelry : Swarovski crystals, Czech lass beads, Japanese beads, semi - precious stones, leathers, metals and others....But most of all I like to work with the new shapes of beads an to create a new designs with them....
I make classes at our bead store every day. I teach jewelry design and different techniques of beading. Our bead store's name is "The World of Beads", so I take my students to another world - to the world of beads. Here, I believe, every one can bead, and every design is possibleI hope to bead and design new jewelry art pieces for years and will make help to make our design dreams come true!
Paulette Hill
R&T Crystals
I've always had a passionate, insatiable desire to artistically create, be it cooking, tailoring, flower arranging, drawing, singing, and since 2009, jewelry designing. The more time and ways I find to blend these gifts together, the more it lights my fire and soothes my soul.
As a child, I grew up under the tremendous influence of 4-H and wonderful parents that were leaders. I learned to create/sew my own clothes, grow flowers and vegetables, plan and cook meals, bake bread and other goodies, milk and show dairy cows, appreciate all animals, and work with people of all ages. As an adult I’ve continued to participate in creative contests such as the nationally held Make It Yourself with Wool Contest, where contestants tailor a wool outfit, accessorize and model it, answer questions about the processes used in making it, and have the outfit judged for proper construction techniques.
Living in my current area has enabled me to connect with a plethora of amazingly talented artists, whose works inspire me greatly. The beauty of the area and the wealth of exquisite natural materials also inspire me to create. I love beautiful things from nature and enjoy working with their subtle textures and colors. But I also can’t resist the vivid colors, energy and sparkle of crystals, and I often incorporate them into my work as well.
I GET to work with beautiful stones, metals, woods, crystals, pearls, beads, and join them all together in creative, artistic ways.
Add a glass of wine to all that, and it just doesn't get any better!
I hope you enjoy my work, and you feel the love and joy I put into my pieces.
Lisa Kan
Lisa Kan Designs
Lisa Kan is an author, beadweaver, jewelry designer and glass artist. With an eye for color and textural balance, Lisa utilizes basic beading stitches to weave crystals, pearls and seedbeads with layering effects to create designs that are infused with dimension and depth. Her focus is on creating elegant, wearable, multi-purpose and modular component beadwork designs.
Lisa is the author of Bead Romantique: Elegant Beadweaving Designs (Interweave Press, 2008) and a 2009 Beadwork Magazine Designer of the Year. Her designs have been published in Australian Beading, Bead Unique (aka Bead Design Studio), Stringing, Beadwork, Beadstyle, Bead and Button, Step by Step Beads, etc.).
Lisa, along with six other Beadwork Magazine Designers of the Year, will be featured in Melinda Barta’s Mastering Peyote Stitch (Interweave Press, 2012) and Mastering Herringbone Stitch (Interweave Press, 2013). For more information about Lisa’s work and her exhibit schedule, please visit www.LisaKan.com.
Debbie Orme
My beading adventures started about 8 years ago when my friend Kathy and I wandered into a craft show. We came across people who had made bracelets on elastic and were selling them. We decided we could do that also. Little did we know what awaited us. My first love was gemstones. I dabbled a little in seed beads, but liked stringing. Somehow, those little seed beads have gradually taken over and now that is mainly what I work in. I am retired and live in Idaho Falls, Idaho, with my husband, Larry. He is very patient and hardly ever complains when he vacuums up seed beads.
Jennifer Schroeder
Starman, Inc.
Jenn grew up in the Dungeness Valley on the North Olympic Peninsula. With the foothills of the Olympic Mountains for her back yard and the shores of the Strait of Juan de Fuca for her front yard she was bound to have a profound love of nature. Whether it’s hiking the Olympics, camping in the National Forests or swimming in one of the many glacier fed rivers and lakes on the peninsula, she is always at her element when she is outdoors. Whenever asked about her home, Jenn always replies “I have the biggest back yard of anyone I know (referring to the Olympics) and I live in the most beautiful place on Earth.”
She began beading when she was in middle school. It started with a kit bought from the local craft store and she hasn’t stopped since. Her chosen color palette reflects her out-door upbringing by using the greens and browns that surround her in her everyday life. Seed Beading has always been her chosen medium but since coming to work for Starman, Inc. she has begun to expand her design knowledge.
Jenn has one son, Josiah who has inherited her adoration of the out doors. He isn’t out of high school yet and he has already hiked more of the Olympics than is mother. She has an AAS from Peninsula College in Administrative Office Systems and has worked her way up to Purchasing Manager for Starman. She enjoys her job and looks forward to all of the new, exciting opportunities that are opening up for the company.
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Kathy Simonds
I am an Idaho native with 2 lovely daughters and 3 amazing grandsons who make my life so enjoyable. I have been beading for over 7 or 8 years. It all started after going to a craft show with my friend and after seeing the jewelry and purchasing a bracelet my thought was – I can do that!
My obsession with beading has evolved from simple beading (and yes I know there is no such thing) on a small table with one bin of beads, to more advanced seed bead weaving and other beading projects with many bins of beads and then taking over my daughter’s bedroom for my bead room after she moved out on her own.
I really love the challenge of putting those tiny little beads into a design and working on color combinations to show off the designs. I have met many wonderful people through this adventure who inspire me every day to continue designing and especially to enjoy my time while doing it.
Nichole Starman
Starman, Inc.
Nichole has been an integral part of the industry for over 12 years wholesaling Czech glass. She has produced some of the world’s most notable styles and colors of beads. Inspired by her love for art history, Nichole loves the infinite possibilities using the bead color palette to create wearable works of art. The introduction of Toho brand seed beads into her work has given new dimension to designing with Czech glass.
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EmLee Young
Bella Beads
My love of beads started when I was a small child. I was fascinated with a small beaded bouquet of my grandmother’s. When she passed on, the flowers were given to a cousin and I was heartbroken.
Later, as an adult, I decided to make a bouquet for myself. I had no instructions and made the flowers as I remembered them. That was the start of my bead collection and my love of beading.After studying many instruction books, I have found that I like combining techniques and making my own patterns. I also like to combine media. Recently, I made a stained glass lamp with beaded insets. Dolls are a love of mine and I have made beaded clothes for them. I have taught beading one-on-one, and now I am planning to teach at the “Bella Beads" our local beading store here in Marquette, Michigan.
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