I was born in ALbuquerque, NM way back in 1950 and moved with my parents to Texas when I was four months old. I always loved jewelry and collected stones and other components all my life, thinking one day I would learn to wire wrap. I'd still like to learn that art, but imagine my delight when I discovered how to bead wrap all my treasures!
I started beading in 1987 when my teenage daughter brought home a single beaded earring. I borrowed it to learn how to make the earring, thinking I would make one to match it so I could borrow something of hers for a change. A year later when I managed to find the beads to match that earring, I had made fifty designs of my own and sadly, the mate for that earring never did get made, NOR did I ever return it to my daughter -- which proves moms can borrow things and never return them, too.
I have been beading ever since and loving every minute of it. I had a bead shop in Austin, Texas for thirteen months in the early 1990s, but the timing was off and I had to close again. I loved having all the beads to play with, but found I wasn't really much of a shop keeper. My love and talent lay in creating, not in selling.
I live near Houston, Texas with my house mate (who is also my business partner -- we grow wheatgrass), more cats than I should have and my beads! What more could any woman ask for? Oh, by the way, I also love to sing and I'm in a barbershop quartet. This picture was taken after one of our performances just before Christmas. |
