Jewelry Artist Success Stories | Fire Mountain Gems and Beads

Deborah Glasser

I fell in love with bead embroidery back when I was making dresses for weddings and formal functions.

Jessica Balazovich

I love the freedom of knowing many different techniques. I’m also a huge fan of malachite and wanted to try my hand at something monochrome.

Vera Babich

I like seeing beauty in nature-made things and then I usually want to make something that I want to wear myself.

Stephanie Girdlestone

Jewelry-making for me is a hobby that I have the privilege of indulging in whenever the creative

Stephany Miller

I sell my jewelry at all three Grow Nebraska retail stores and their website

Tamara Allison

I usually come up with a general idea and/or design and allow my materials, mood, and mistakes to guide me to the completion of a piece. Using an intuitive technique, I use free-form peyote, brick stitch and others to create flowing artworks or asymmetrical designs. My main love is seed beads, both in structured and intuitive beadwork. Accent beads are merely resting places for the eye to stop while enjoying the movement of the seed beads.

Denise Rohwedder

I just put a website together and I will be having my first jewelry party soon. There are people who are kind enough to spread the word and my jewelry business is starting to grow

Julie Anstaett

Everything I see inspires me! Really, I am constantly looking at shapes and colors and trying to figure out how to translate it into polymer clay. I am inspired by other artists, other jewelry pieces, and sometimes just staring out the window in my workroom is inspiring! Never knock daydreaming.

Patti Miller

Currently I do private custom order work and events under the business name JewelerGirl

Alfiya Rezepova

For me, jewelry-making is a hobby gradually transforming into a part-time career. I admit, I am still in a learning process, but

Marlynn McNutt

Known as the Beading Queen, Marlynn McNutt is the catalog cover artist for the 2003-2004 Jewelry Maker's Catalog with a turquoise and coral masterpiece.

Erica McIntire

I love designing with brilliant crystals and translucent seed beads, organically beautiful freshwater pearls, and rich gemstones

Renata El

Jewelry making is something that I started to discover for myself about a year ago. While learning different techniques and colors it became a part of my life

Sandra Lupo

Sandra teaches wire techniques in jewelry-making in her home state of New Jersey, conducting classes regularly at the Newark Museum Arts Workshop. She also teaches annually at many Northeast bead festivals. Sandra has been an instructor in Tucson, Arizona in 2006-2010. She enjoys meeting new and former students from near and far.

Dianne Linderman

My whole life, people have tried to tell me that my ideas and dreams would never work, and that I should stick to a safe job. Society sets people up to believe that just getting a secure job is what we all should seek; everyone except for my father, who has the simple belief that, in America, you can be whatever your heart desires and you can teach yourself anything. My father's life's adventures have been an inspiration to me.

Lyn Punkari

I have a website for my historical jewelry line DarkridgeJewels.com. I occasionally have a booth at shows. I also wholesale my work, and

Serené Kopish

I make jewelry for fun. I love it when I can give someone a gift that comes straight from my heart

Tom Triplett

Learn more about Tom Triplett, former owner of Vegas Beads, experienced jewelry class instructor, and past creativity manager at Fire Mountain Gems and Beads.

Jacqueline Jarmol

My business is Lavender Cat Creations. My mission statement is to create unique, beautiful, yet very affordable jewelry. We go to craft fairs, and I have people who order pieces. I am exploring online options to market my jewelry

Irena Šmérková

I love Celtic knotwork, oak leaves and green stones, so when I found out about the Metal Contest, it was a simple choice. I also wanted to test myself.

Susan Jaisle

Right now I am working on a marketing package and "branding" myself and my company. I see Fire Mountain Gems being my "go to" place to stock my shelves

Jamie Smedley

Oregon designer-artist, Jamie Smedley, creates eccentric clothing and jewelry full of fantasy, but thinks of herself as a mixed media artist most of all

Tamara Honaman

Tamara Honaman has been making jewelry for decades, working in a variety of media, including metal clay, wire, sheet metal, polymer clay, glass and beads.

Blair Scott

I use what is available to me, and in these hard times, I put my graphic design skills to work

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