I have been a jewelry artist since the third grade, making friendship bracelets and selling them at recess and lunch in the library for money for books on rocks. I found myself wanting to run away with the gypsies for just about as long, it always sounded like so much fun, like camping with horses and wagons! Since I never did accomplish my task of finding gypsies to run away with, I became one.

Since toddler-hood, I been drawn to rocks, minerals and crystals. In my professional life, I own a rock and gem shop, in which my family and I go out and mine a lot of the materials we offer for sale in my shop and use in my handmade jewelry, it's been said I have a 6th sense for finding rocks, like I can feel them and I do. Each piece calls for me to help move it on to the next place it's suppose to show up.