Jewelry Artist Success Stories | Fire Mountain Gems and Beads

Oksana Muminova

Experience the artistry of Oksana Muminova, where every stitch and bead transforms into a luxurious work of art, her greatest inspiration coming from life and her children.

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Sabrina Frey

Learn all about bead mosaic artist Sabrina Frey and what inspires her beautiful creations.

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A Fire Mountain Friendship

A friendship kindled during a tour of Fire Mountain Gems and Beads blossoms into a journey filled with thrilling adventures.

Gulten Dye

Gulten has been honored to work with celebrity clients and her jewelry designs have been featured on television and in magazines. Her dazzling jewelry set featuring clever combinations of crystal graces the cover of the Fire Mountain Gems and Beads...

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Carolyn Cave

I've always been creative and "crafty", even as a child when my mom taught me how to sew, knit and crochet. I've explored other artistic endeavors, such as spinning, weaving, dyeing, quilting and silk ribbon embroidery

Lela Marie Kurtz

I do a lot of beading projects using gemstones and seed beads. I love doing wire work and have fallen in love with larimar and gold together.

Connie Kuilema

I began as a knitter of chain mail who had a lot of beads left over from projects and failed experiments.

Alisha Butler

Jewelry-making has never been a full-time career, though I once worked full-time managing a bead store and taught jewelry-making classes

Bobbie Yoakum

I'm a retired Math teacher... I sell to friends, family and interested customers of the bead stores I worked for and teach at.

Brandy Bruder

I sell primarily from my Etsy shop, Buy the Place with Beads. I struggled to conceive a witty title for my shop, and the few clever ideas I proposed were already in use. I'm a Bob Dylan fan, so I borrowed a line of his to inspire my shop's name.

Krissy Joy

I started finding joy in jewelry when my grandmother first set a bulging bag of assorted beads in front of me. I would sit for hours learning to...

Sherry Serafini

Bead embroidery artist, Sherry Serafini, is the featured catalog cover artist for the 2004-2005 Fire Mountain Gems and Beads Jewelry Maker's Catalog with her incredible bead embroidery neckpiece, Oceans, created exclusively for Fire Mountain Gems and Beads. She speaks of Oceans as ''one of the few pieces I did that was so free and elaborate, the shape of the stone inspired me."

Sergiy Nagorny

I work with copper and silver wire and semiprecious stones and beads. I prefer working with copper because it gives so much freedom without being too costly.

Grace McEwen

Color drives me. I enjoy finding new beads with great colors and mixing them to create one-of-a-kind pieces of wearable art. I think my style is mostly modern and fresh, and I am most proud of my knitted necklaces. I use lots of color with both gem beads and glass beads to help create eye-catching pieces

Tatiana Van Iten

I have participated in many exhibits since earning recognition from the Fire Mountain Gems and Beads®.

Treena Rowan

I usually sell by word-of-mouth. But, several of my designs can be found on my website www.facebook.com/treenarowanart. I list my jewelry, my handmade paper bowls, embellished with beads, my paintings--Most of all, though

Rosa Romano

I love to create bijoux. I work with thread, beads and crystals in different shape and colors. I like to make mainly weaving, embroidery and Soutach jewelry

Cath Thomas

I am a Dutch beadwork hobbyist living in Switzerland and prefer seed bead off-loom weaving, but I also appreciate other techniques (stringing, wirework, etc). Classic and modern, small- to medium-size necklaces with matching ring and earrings using pearls, seed beads, gemstones, cabochons and glass is what I prefer to make

Melanie Chouinard

I'm a sculptor by profession and my medium is primarily polymer clay and papier mache. I bead as a hobby in order to wind down and relax.

Svetlana Bondavara

I own a small shop with beads and findings, and I also sell my works in it and online.

Deborah Glasser

I fell in love with bead embroidery back when I was making dresses for weddings and formal functions.

Tamara Allison

I usually come up with a general idea and/or design and allow my materials, mood, and mistakes to guide me to the completion of a piece. Using an intuitive technique, I use free-form peyote, brick stitch and others to create flowing artworks or asymmetrical designs. My main love is seed beads, both in structured and intuitive beadwork. Accent beads are merely resting places for the eye to stop while enjoying the movement of the seed beads.

Erica McIntire

I love designing with brilliant crystals and translucent seed beads, organically beautiful freshwater pearls, and rich gemstones

Sandra Lupo

Sandra teaches wire techniques in jewelry-making in her home state of New Jersey, conducting classes regularly at the Newark Museum Arts Workshop. She also teaches annually at many Northeast bead festivals. Sandra has been an instructor in Tucson, Arizona in 2006-2010. She enjoys meeting new and former students from near and far.

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