Every maker has a bead they bought on instinct and haven't figured out yet. Mine is a bowl of polished serpentine — stunning, stubborn, and still waiting for the right...
The hardest part of making jewelry for a shop isn't the wire or the beads. It's learning to hold your own preferences loosely enough to make room for someone else's.
Every bead has something to tell you before it ever touches a wire. Color, texture, shape, size, weight — and then something beyond all of those, something that lives in...
