Now, for introductions. My name is Allison. I am a 31 year old work at home mom of 2 children- a 2 year old and a 4 month old. The "work" part of my work at home is beadweaving and jewelry making. I have been playing with beads compulsively for about 15 years now...WOW, that is nearly half my life...I love to create with these tiny pieces of glass, stones, metals- doesn't really matter, if it is tiny and can be strung, I will at least give it a look. I am passing my addiction onto my 2 year old daughter as well. We call her our little raccoon, because of her love of all things shiny
Anyway, I am sort of schizophrenic when it comes to jewelry making. I love to use tiny glass seed beads and weave thousands of them into large statement pieces of jewelry and then I also love to use precious gemstones and sterling silver wire. Occasionally, I even combine the two. Oh, I forgot to mention, I also have a serious addiction to melting glass- in the torch and the kiln. I don't have my studio set up right now- we moved in December and I gave birth to my son in January, so that is sort of on the backburner for the moment.
My kids keep me pretty busy these days, but just about every day I manage to get a little time to bead. Speaking of babies, my tiny one is calling...
