AvaDesigns
Location
Napa, CA, United States
Quick Blurb
Wire-wrapping and creating beautiful wire art jewelry is my passion.
Interests
I love working with wire, enjoy the search for unique and interesting stones, beads and findings. I also enjoy working on the computer and learning new programs.
Skills and Techniques
I am pretty much self taught in all areas of jewelry making. I love working with wire and wire-wrapping various stones. I have dabbled in lapidary, but have pretty much left that to my husband. I also work with seed beads and I am in the first stages of learning to work with precious metal clay.
Find me online @:
http://www.avadesigns.net http://www.facebook.com/avadesig…Get to Know
I was born in Honolulu HI, and raised in Marin County, CA, and today I reside in the beautiful Napa Valley with my husband Chuck, close to my mom, sons and two grandchildren.
My journey into the jewelry world began 17 years ago, when through a friend I was introduced to seed beads and became fascinated with the colors and the designs that could be created through weaving these beads together using stitches that I taught myself through books and other mediums. Today, I create jewelry using sterling silver and 14k gold-filled wire, semi-precious stones, crystals, Murano beads, and various other findings that I find on-line or when attending gem and bead shows.
Recently my husband and I have been collecting slabs of semi-precious stones that my husband then cuts, shapes and polishes creating beautiful gemstone cabochons, which I use in creating my one-of-a-kind pieces. My jewelry is designed using wire and weaving, wrapping and/or coiling the wire when making each piece of jewelry. I also design pieces using my bead weaving skills. I continue to learn new skills so that I can apply them to my designs My jewelry can be seen during the summer months at Fine Art & Wine festivals throughout Northern California, here at ArtFire, or you can also find me on Facebook, and then there's my website AvaDesigns.net.
My journey into the jewelry world began 17 years ago, when through a friend I was introduced to seed beads and became fascinated with the colors and the designs that could be created through weaving these beads together using stitches that I taught myself through books and other mediums. Today, I create jewelry using sterling silver and 14k gold-filled wire, semi-precious stones, crystals, Murano beads, and various other findings that I find on-line or when attending gem and bead shows.
Recently my husband and I have been collecting slabs of semi-precious stones that my husband then cuts, shapes and polishes creating beautiful gemstone cabochons, which I use in creating my one-of-a-kind pieces. My jewelry is designed using wire and weaving, wrapping and/or coiling the wire when making each piece of jewelry. I also design pieces using my bead weaving skills. I continue to learn new skills so that I can apply them to my designs My jewelry can be seen during the summer months at Fine Art & Wine festivals throughout Northern California, here at ArtFire, or you can also find me on Facebook, and then there's my website AvaDesigns.net.
