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I've made jewelry since I can remember, and got my first technical training as a child in Vermont.  One day I found a daisy chain ring in my Grandma’s jewelry box that my Great-Grandma had made.  I asked my Grandma how to make it, and that day got my first jewelry-making tutorial.  Since then I’ve studied glass bead-making in Ghana, hunted for evil eye amulets and beads in Turkey, and gone underground in a tourmaline mine in Southern California.  I’ve completed most of my gemology credentials with the Gemological Institute of America (GIA), and I serve on the Golden Gate GIA Alumni Association Board of Directors as well.  I hope to be a fully certified Graduate Gemologist by the summer of 2010.

In addition to making my own jewelry, I currently work in a jewelry store doing everything from jewelry repairs to sales, inventory, customer service, and marketing.  I also do bookkeeping for a green construction company, and do restringing for various jewelry stores around the Bay Area.

I have a BA in Storytelling as Cross-Cultural Communication from the Johnston Center for Integrative Studies at the University of Redlands.

I live in the San Francisco Bay Area with my husband.