[Jewelry making - Article 00216] - Re: [Orchid] Jeweler's former lives

[Karen Olsen Ramsey]

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    This is a fun thread! Is anyone tabulating responses? 

    My life as a "jeweler" started at age 4, pebble hunting on the
    beaches and gluing my treasures to findings and selling them! 

    Many jewelry kits later (I remember a kit called "Rings and Things"
    that I loved!), I had the opportunity as a high school senior to sit
    in a jewelry studio with a mentor for a few weeks. I soldered my
    first joints and set my first stones with her. 

    On to college at The University of Illinois, where I majored in
    graphic design, thinking that I'd make jewelry on the side, and pay
    the bills with a graphics job. Took jewelry classes at U of I., and
    at a community college in town, as well. 

    Three years later, decided that graphics was not my bag, and focused
    entirely on jewelry, setting up my own studio in my home. 

    Had several side jobs as well, including seamstress in a leather
    shop, was a hand weaver, made and sold bicycle touring products,then
    made portrait porcelain dolls, was a wood carver, and then made the
    final leap into full time studio jewelry. Been there ever since, and
    still love it, every minute of every day! 

    (Raised two awesome daughters in the mean time, the oldest is an
    elementary school teacher and about to make me a grandmother! The
    youngest is about to finish her last year of high school, then on to
    study nutrition and food science, and photography. Both girls are art
    photographers.) 

Karen Olsen Ramsey
http://www.artjeweler.com
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