Bead Chat Magazine Summer 2014 | Page 41

my own creato start with theme. When I always seemed eems to be an , how wells it is. I love that, ealized that I reart of this for me ch history and o make pieces the style I strive t it definitely helps recharge my creative batteries. We live in Sacramento just over the levee the two big rivers that run through the city. Our small back yard is full of native California plants y-large-and-still-growing redwoods (the inspiration for my studio name, Two Trees Studio). The st than anything else, no grass, just ground cover, bushes, and trees, with some strategically have always been like church for me, and there’s definite river magic here as well. So lying for a ung between those two redwoods is recharging for me (and even more fun if I can coax Kaity to here I live has more effect on my work than I thought. work with? and also like to mix media in my pieces. It seems like I have at least a little bit of copper in just g it because silver was so expensive (and don’t even ask about gold), but I’ve grown to love it use it as much). I use a lot of art beads and components (metal, glass, ceramics, polymer clay), e been incorporating maille into pieces with beads, cording, and wire. The focal point of one out as a rectangular sheet of chainmaille that ended up covered with dozens of small wiress agate bead dangles. What started out as an experiment ended up as something pretty special. artisanwhimsy.net 15