This is too cool!

Wow! There is so much to learn!  Karen and I  want to journal our experiences of creating our website and officially starting our jewelry business.  Ironically,  I never intended to sell my jewelry.  Actually,  I was never formally taught how to make it.  About four years ago, I sat at my kitchen table and created my first piece.  I proudly wore it the next day to work, and my colleagues loved it, too.  I must admit, however, I was not so good at first regarding the putting together of my pieces.  A couple of my early beloved pieces ended up in pieces, and I often found myself in the middle of the street picking up beads.  Needless to say, I then decided that it was important to figure out how to put a piece together without potential hazard.  Jewelry making then became an obsession.  I was often sitting at the same kitchen table in the weeeeeeeeeeeeee hours of the morning...and, yes, I got up to a job.  Speaking of,  that is where the other Karen comes into the picture.   Karen and I worked together.   Often times, our lunches became jewelry workshops.  We began to share beads and ideas.  I also want to tell you that some of our other colleagues got involved.  It became an obsession.  After retired from the school district,  I am sure that if one collected all the dropped beads from under my desk....I promise that we really did work, and we worked hard.  However, my jewelry making during lunch got me through some tedious days.  I truly believe if we were all allowed to create during a stressful day, we would all be better workers.

Making jewelry is still an obsession.  And it is still fun.  Amazingly, Karen and I have formed a partnership, and we are developing a website to sell our pieces.