Designing jewelry is what I was born to do! Since being very small, my fascination and awe of well-designed, phenomenal jewelry has never waned. (Even as a child, my brother and I would play games of guessing the price of different items....his favorite was cars, mine was jewelry. I got so good at recognizing the difference between high quality and fine jewelry and costume jewelry that I almost always won the contest!) Unfortunately, I was drawn into other careers from high school on, and gradually 'forgot' about my love of jewelry until it couldn't be ignored any longer! I picked up some...more