Jewelry Design Ideas Biography
Source (google.com.pk )Kay is known for her innovative spirit and her incredible sense of
harmony and balance in design. Design Inspiration and Innovation are
Kay’s strength – coupled with her outgoing, bubbly, approachable nature –
which makes it easy for her to share and teach others to perfect their talents.
Signs of Kay’s natural creativity began very young. At the age of 5, Kay was
creating, cutting, and hand stitching tiny little clothes for her Barbie dolls. A continued
interest in garment design and construction lead to a line of garments Kay developed
and sold in 80’s and 90’s. Kay’s young years of sewing lead to her own upholstery
shop business with the help of her entrepreneur father, who was a very talented metal
fabricator. Kay learned about many types of metals very young and helped, at times,
with the inventions of many metal projects her father created.
Kay’s love for metalworking evolved through this opportunity in life as well as a
love for all types of machinery and equipment. Kay loves to joke that “A girl’s
best friend is not diamonds and furs, it’s machines and equipment.”
Kay is a very industrious person and lives to create!! Some of Kay’s favorite mediums
to work with are metals, fabric, and gemstones. Give Kay any forms of material, and
Zoom!, an object is being created before your eyes. Kay is known for her incredible sense
of harmony and balance in her designs. She has been called a designer’s designer and indeed
teaches others to improve their skills and designs through design ideas, patterns, books, videos,
and in person.Bead and Wire artist from California. An official member of CREATE YOUR STYLE with SWAROVSKI ELEMENTS Ambassador team in United States, a frequent contributor to several beading magazines; a finalist in Bead and Dream Design contest in 2008; a semi-finalist in Create Your Style Design contest with two pieces of her design 2008. An instructor who teaches at the Bead and Button show in Milwaukee, CREATE YOUR STYLE show in Tucson, and Bead and Design show in California.
Lilian has a passion for teaching and creation. She created her own style on wire and crystal design, her new invention "Contemporary style wire jewelry design", offers workshops for those who love a challenge and love to learn new techniques. She offers a very flexible class for every level, to pass her passion on to every student by her special teaching skills. These classes encourage and challenge, while offering full time step-by-step instructions from basic jewelry to design level techniques, to build the skills and creative thinking at the same time..
Kay met her wonderful hubby John in the seventies through music. They played together in a
band – Kay wrote songs, played guitar, and sang vocal while John sang and played harmonies
and has years of experience playing the drums. John has a degree in business as well as
many talents, including building construction and stone cutting to book and video
publishing. Together, John and Kay have started many businesses while raising
their 4 talented, beautiful, and successful children.
One of the many businesses formed and started is Pizazz Works TM, which was
founded in 1989 by John and Kay Jacobs. In the early years, John and Kay built their
business with innovative new products for the craft industry. Their products included
Pizazz Paper, Pizazz Copper, Pizazz Suede, and Pizazz Dazzlers. They manufactured
and sold these products through major chain craft stores in the United States. To
supplement their innovative line of products, they wrote and produced four instructional
“how to” booklets which also sold through national chain stores in the early 1990s.
The creativity of the Pizazz line, earned Kay an invitation, twice, to the “Easy Does It”
television show on the Discovery Channel. The two segments that they recorded were
aired periodically for the next three years. In the following years, Kay’s jewelry and
innovations led to numerous press releases and articles in craft and jewelry magazines.
As Kay’s creativity evolved, Pizazz Works expanded their talents into designing and
manufacturing a line of artistic gemstone jewelry. This new line involved many processes, including
stone cutting, model making, white metal casting, electroforming, and lost wax casting. John and Kay
manufactured and marketed their jewelry products at 30 to 40 national jewelry trade shows annually for
As many of my readers know, I primarily write about jewelry – making it; selling it; buying it; wearing it; just about anything you can imagine when it comes to jewelry I’m writing about it on-line and in print.
One result of writing about jewelry is that I spend a lot of time surfing all over the Internet looking at jewelry web sites, from high-end artists who design for celebrities to SAHMs who have just gotten started. I’ve seen all kinds of web sites – some good, some great, some not-so-good. But what always surprises me is how many jewelry artists do not include information about themselves on their websites.
The reason I entitled this article “You Are Your Jewelry Company,” is just that – you are it!
When it comes to unique hand-crafted jewelry, your customers want to know about the artist because you and your craftsmanship is what sets your jewelry apart from mass produced or imported goods. Just because you have “hand-crafted” mentioned here and there, that’s not enough. When you sell your jewelry, you are literally selling a little piece of yourself.
Even if you don’t have a website, it’s helpful to have promotional material about yourself. Here are a few ideas to help get you started:
Get some photographs taken. You need at least one portrait style, and if possible, a few of you making jewelry or working in your studio are also a good idea.
Develop an artist’s statement or short narrative about how you started making jewelry.
Write a short biography or resume about yourself, possibly including information about what kind of jewelry you’ve studied and any special training you’ve received.
I know better than most how difficult it can be to write about yourself, and I often claim that I’d rather have a tooth pulled than a picture taken of myself, but all of these little details can help you stand out in the competitive world of jewelry designing.
Need a little inspiration? Here are some websites to help give you some ideas:
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