[Jewelry making - Article 00305] - Re: [Orchid] Jeweler's former lives

[Beth McElhiney]

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    Master Miller, I bow respectively to you in awe of your skills and
    training. It is so rare in this modern world to meet someone working
    at the level that you have been. The quality of the work that you do
    is of the type of pieces that have always inspired me to "be better".
    To actually hear from a Master Goldsmith on this forum has just upped
    the ante for me! 

    For myself, I have always been making things to wear. When I was 8 I
    made little tiny macrame owl earrings and sold them door to door
    along with the vegetables from my garden. My great Aunt and Uncle
    were jewelers in NYC and I adored them. I apprenticed with a
    silversmith at 14 and took a jewelry class in high school but never
    considered it for a career as I was a competitive gymnast at the
    time. Well...I blew my knee out the first meet of the season senior
    year, lost my scholarship and found my art as a passion and future. I
    credit my high school art teacher for saving my life and just made
    contact with her again after all these years! Went to Parsons and
    FIT, worked in retail jewelry stores to pay my tuition and freelance
    designed for a few years. Got a job with one of the companies that I
    freelanced for as production manager and learned alot about quality
    control and efficient production. Went on to Manage the Breitling
    watch store on Madison Avenue and become President of the Madison
    Avenue Merchants Association. Burned out on NYC ten years ago and
    landed on Marthas Vineyard where I have been doing my own work
    selling direct to my retail clients all of these years. Now getting
    ready to do my first trade show (JCK Vegas) in June and am excited,
    scared about coming out in America. So I guess I was born to this and
    I love it! 

    Thanks for everyone's stories, they have been great to read and so
    diverse. 

Beth McElhiney
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