Jewelry Artist Success Stories | Fire Mountain Gems and Beads

Karen Carmichael

It started out a hobby and grew into a few festivals a year. Then placement in a few jewelry stores followed and the just-for-fun design competitions.

Elena Landzberg

Pretty things that surround me inspire me to create and design jewelry.

Marie Lamarche

I always plan different jewelry.

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

Irene Kravtsova

There are so many things that inspire me: nature, music, emotions, state symbols of United States, the power of color combination and many more.

Laura Burlis

You can see more of my work at my Etsy shop: BorealisArtByLauraB

Diane Zollo

I have a website, attend craft fairs and do home shows primarily. This is a second source of income right now--I am mostly just trying to sell enough so I can keep making more

Kateryna Klimov

I sell my jewelry at trade shows and on my Instagram page via personal messages.

Atsumi

I am constantly inspired by all living things and am also able to learn many things from their history.

Joyce Bugaiski

Jewelry-making plays a very large role in my everyday life.

Claire Kern

A long spiritual quest has resulted in interesting compositions of subjects such as sea creatures, hearts, angels, peace signs and crystals. I discovered that I have the ability to create beautiful necklaces from great and varied materials which bring joy to many ladies.

Mary Buchholz

I feel that jewelry-making keeps my brain active. I make jewelry on a daily basis. I am trying to make it a full-time business.

Susan Lenart Kazmer

I have always felt that the more experiences you have in life, the more you are able to offer in your work. On my journey, living life, exploring and unfolding as an artist, I find inspiration for my work in various mediums. Watching a bird run back and forth with the tide creates a beautiful rhythm that can be transformed into a three-dimensional form. The visual impact, the color and condition of a dilapidated barn can be captured in a piece of metal.

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...

Larry Brown

Jewelry, in fact all wearable art, is important to me. Early in my career, I saw the positive impact that wearing something beautiful had on the wearer's spirit and mood

Leah Z. Portnoy Worenklein

Recently, jewelry-making has become absolutely crucial to my well-being.

Stephanie J. Eddy

I became obsessed with the Viking Knit weave because the basic technique, so far as design, was virtually unexplored. I believed there was more to it

Svetlana Dubinsky

As long as making jewelry is not my main job, I sell a little, mostly to my friends, and sometimes give it as a present to close friends

Mary Wertz

I have a market I sell at on Saturdays from May to October and then I have a store that sells my work on consignment

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."

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