What are you at your core? What drives you? Why do you aspire to do what you do?

An article in the April-May edition of Entrepreneur Magazine on the power team of Dwayne Johnson and Dany Garcia poses these exact questions. Reading them switched a flip for me and I immediately ran to grab my journal in an attempt to define my answers.

I’ve been making jewelry and selling it for roughly twenty years. I identify as a jewelry maker. I always have. I am my work and my jewelry is my identity. But, how can this be? If I didn’t make jewelry, wouldn’t I still be myself?

The first show of the year for me is ACC Baltimore. It is a grandiose and prestigious show to exhibit in. I remember visiting it with my jewelry class in college thinking…wow… this is AMAZING!!! SO many artists coming together in one show, it’s a visual explosion and site to behold. I’m thrilled to be accepted and this year will be exhibiting in both wholesale and retail. This means for 2 days galleries and boutiques come to place orders and buy our work. The following 3 days the show becomes a bustling retail mecca and thousands of people pour in to peruse and purchase the handmade original art.