About Amy the Jewelry Artist

I never expected that working in my mother’s fabric store would provide me with a foundation for designing jewelry.  I helped customers select cotton fabrics for quilts, fashion fabrics for sewing garments, decorating fabrics, imported trims and fancy buttons. I loved working with textiles then in much the same way I love working with beads now.

Dance was always my passion, and it took me a long time before I found something that could fill my soul as dancing used to. So now I dance at night in my dreams.  During the day, my creativity flows through me and the beads assume their own rhythms as they are combined into unique pieces of jewelry.  One aspect of making jewelry that I really enjoy is problem solving.

When taking a jewelry making course in 2007 my teacher encouraged me to “keep going” because she said I had a really good eye.   And so I did, I kept creating and taking different kinds of jewelry classes exploring different techniques. 

What makes my jewelry so different?  I do not have just one style because I love everything from sapphires to seed beads to pearls to ethnic beads, thus I design jewelry that is From Ethnic to Elegant to Everyday. I make all the pieces myself and my work is meticulous and crafted with great consciousness as to color, weight, and balance. I search for unique quality beads, stones and findings and this collection is the palette from which I draw when designing my pieces.

Amy’s most favorite compliment came from a customer who exclaimed, “this is not just jewelry, this is art”.