Arctic Frost Jewelry

In junior high and high school every girl loves the idea of glam, but on the farm if you wanted glam you had to make it yourself. Glass pearls were a beginning step that led eventually into seed beads. Both had their difficulties for a self taught novice, however seed beads were by far the roughest experience and a bane to my existence. To put it simply, I hate seed beads. We might become better

friends, but I’m not holding my breath. My dislike of them comes from mainly my experiences in trying to sell them. Though I successfully made many things for myself, friends and family it never seemed successful on a public level and that was daunting. Fast forward a bit to college where the beading bug bit me again and creating jewelry and dreamcatchers was an outlet for some tenuous times. I found myself again in love with the idea, but with no guidance and being self-taught it was a struggle and was put on the back burner for a second time. Blessings and abundance of joy happened next, married, kids, and life. But always yearning to create to find my voice and a way to express myself. To supplement income I joined Mary Kay, great business training there. I attended bazaars to sell Mary Kay and was disappointed again in the response to public selling. I decided I needed to dress up my table and make it more shiny and sparkly. What better way to do so then to re-introduce myself to my ever constant passion of jewelry creation. As I stepped back into this joy I found that people were responding better and better to my jewelry, I was soon taking off! My jewelry sales outpaced my Mary Kay so I consolidated my efforts into my true passion. It provides and outlet for me to find myself and a joy in creating. I love the challenge of putting new ideas into reality or of re-vamping old ones into a new existence. My inspiration is life, history, and the yearning for people to feel unique and find their individuality in my jewelry and feel gorgeous while doing so. I love nature, fantasy, myths and legends they are all great inspiration. All things Celtic, Renaissance, and mystical are things I really enjoy. I think that symbols are a language of art and history that are beautiful and full of life. I love steampunk, for me it represents both the past and future and everything in between. My best days are when I get to homeschool my three kids in a world of make believe with tiaras, laughter and joy.