I've always been fiddling with my fingers. From sewing little toys out of felt as a kid to making wire sculptures based on characters out of the Book of Revelation as a high school student (I was and am weird, I know), my childhood was spent constructing things.

At eight, I took a beaded jewelry class and fell in love with beadwork! I'm an obsessive, and working with tiny beads spoke to me. I've been making beaded jewelry ever since, teaching myself techniques and learning new ones. I took a chainmaille class with Rebeca Mojica of Blue Buddha Boutique over three years ago, and I was hooked! Luckily enough, I started working for her a few months later, and now jewelry is my life.

I'm working on developing more chainmaille jewelry pieces (aside from the crazy, epic projects), and turning a number of my beaded designs as kits. Keep your eyes out for all the new projects.

I've taught myself a number of bead weaving techniques, peyote, brick stitch, bead embroidery, etc. I love chainmaille, and European 4-in-1 is probably my favorite chainmaille weave. I have some wire working skills, too, from working as a production assistant for a jewelry designer for two years.

If I could actually make something out of metal clay aside from a lump of dried metal clay, I would be thrilled.

Making cool big things out of lots of little things, writing about random philosophical interests, and reading about ancient mythologies.

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I like chocolate and kale chips, but not together.

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