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I have been an artist for as long as I can remember. I grew up in Southern California and enjoyed many creative endeavors. 

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After I married in the late 90's, my husband and I moved to Northern Nevada where I pursued floral design and began discovering my love of jewelry making. Through my twenties, thirties, and early forties, I worked as a floral designer doing weddings and working in flower shops. Meanwhile I went about building my skills in wire wrap and building my business. In 2017 I was blessed to find myself in a position to pursue my jewelry business full time and move into freelance floral in a part time capacity. 

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Over the years I've enjoyed connecting with people at Gem and Mineral shows all over the southwest. I am passionate about both of my crafts and teaching classes and mentoring students has become such an enriching part of my life. Unfortunately, when Covid-19 hit, all of my shows were canceled and my business was devastated! At this time our family decided it was time to move closer to my parents who were here in Arizona. When we arrived I re-entered the workforce as a Floral Designer and began rebuilding my business. It has been a blessing to rebuild in AZ and I am now back to running my jewelry and freelance floral fulltime! My husband and I are active doing Gem and Mineral shows all over AZ and we love it here. Our two beautiful daughters are attending college and pursuing both academic and creative endeavors. 

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I really feel that the living of life is the most meaningful endeavor! How more can one inspire others than to find their own purpose and embody their calling? Beyond this, there is the mentoring others to discover their own path. I am very busy but in all of it, I am grateful for every moment.

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"What a man can be, he must be. This need we call self-actualization".

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"Self-actualized people have a wonderful capacity to appreciate again and again, freshly and naively. the basic goods of life with awe, pleasure, wonder, and even ecstasy".

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-Abraham Maslow