I’m a professional graphic designer turned stay-at-home Mom in 2020 and making jewelry while the kids are asleep has become a sacred creative outlet. I’ve always loved beads and jewelry of all sorts from a very young age and have an absolute blast designing and fabricating wearable art into the wee hours. The majority of my works are original designs.
What sets my beadwork apart:
1) I create original designs that combine knowledge from over a decade of full-time work as a graphic artist with an obsessive love of jewelry.
2) Each piece is made with perfected techniques like my signature molten flowing fringe.
3) I exclusively use the highest quality materials and precious metals.
For updates on what I’ve got cooking, follow me on IG! @mortalfemale
Learn to Bead:
Tutorials that I’ve made:
- Achieving the perfect draping fringe on your beadwork.
- Adjusting fringe tension without re-doing anything!
- How I bezel studs onto beadwork earrings (easy!).
Best Youtube Tutorials:
- Beginner Brick Stitch
- Brick Stitch Increases & Decreases
- Flat Square Stitch
- Peyote Tube
- Diagonal Stitch Bracelet
- Pondo Stitch
What I use:
- String: Fireline for weaving. Nymo or K.O. nylon thread for fringe.
- Needles: BEADSMITH Sharps Size 12 and occasionally 13, for those hard to reach places, on all projects and with all types of string. They are the best! Don’t mess with anything else.
- Beads: If you can’t find a local shop, I like to get my seed beads from Jill. She carries every single variety of Miyuki 11/0 seed bead. Barrel of Beads online is good, solid fire polished crystal selection but you have to jump on their restocks. I like Cherry Tree Beads for everything gemstone or crystal. Artbeads.com is a good one too. If one store is out of something I need, I can shop at the other.
- Findings: My go-to for findings is Nina Designs but it’s wholesale only. That said, it’s easy to get a reseller license. Cherry Tree also carries a lot of findings.