I'm a retired firefighter/ EMT. I have always been crafty, so I started teaching myself how to make jewelry. Started out just making for family and friends. It just took off from there into craft shows. My best friend of 20 + years is my business partner she is a schoolteacher. She has picked up the art of jewelry making very well. We love to spend time making and selling our jewerly. We call it our therapy. We even got both our husbands invalved they make our setup sheves ect.