Bead and Clay

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Bead and Clay

I am a jewelry creator over a wide array of mediums, from beads to polymer clay. This is not a job, its a passion.

05/29/2026

These are the kinds of projects currently taking over my brain.

Beaded pins made for decoration, storytelling, and little moments of joy.
And beaded rope made from thousands of tiny beads and an unreasonable amount of dedication.

I love having my hands in completely different kinds of work at once. One playful, one painstaking. Both teaching me patience in entirely different ways.

There is something really beautiful about watching ideas slowly become tangible.

05/27/2026

How lucky am I
to witness a world
where puddles are oceans,
sticks become swords,
and ordinary days still hold magic.

To see life softened
through the eyes of a child
is to remember
wonder was always meant
to stay with us.

05/26/2026

POV: You Turn a Jacket Into Art
I’m Beading a Patch for This Jacket
Watch Me Hand-Bead a Jacket Patch.

05/25/2026

I genuinely cannot explain how excited I am about this beaded sh***ri rope.

Every few inches I finish, I get even more obsessed with the idea. The texture. The weight. The movement. Watching something traditionally made from fiber slowly come to life through thousands and thousands of tiny beads feels almost surreal.

This project is pushing me creatively in ways I did not expect. It’s teaching me patience, endurance, and how to trust the process even when the end feels impossibly far away.

And the best part?
This is still only the beginning.

There are still more panels to make, more length to build, more experimenting to do. I feel like my brain is running faster than my hands because I already see the final vision so clearly.

I think as artists we live for projects like this. The ones that keep you awake thinking about them. The ones that make you rush home to work on them for “just one more hour.” The ones that remind you why you create in the first place.

I cannot wait to show you where this piece goes next.

***ri

05/22/2026

All day long I stare at monitors like this.
Heart rates. Oxygen levels. Blood pressure. Respiratory waveforms. Tiny numbers that can change everything in seconds.

As an anesthesiologist assistant, my job requires me to stay calm inside environments that are anything but calm. To notice the smallest changes before they become bigger problems. To carry responsibility quietly while someone else sleeps through one of the most vulnerable moments of their life.

And I love what I do.
But it also asks a lot from me.

People sometimes ask why I bead so much. Why I spend hours weaving tiny glass beads together after already working long days in medicine. But beadwork is the one place where my nervous system softens.

In the OR, I am constantly scanning. Anticipating. Calculating. Watching.
At my bead mat, I can finally exhale.

The repetition grounds me. The texture pulls me back into my body. The slow process reminds me that not everything has to be urgent. Not everything is an alarm.

Medicine taught me how fragile life can be.
Art taught me how to stay connected to it.

05/21/2026

Making a beaded sh***ri rope has taught me that some things are never really “finished.”

You build slowly. One bead at a time. One section at a time. Sometimes repeating the same motion for hours without seeing much progress at all. And then suddenly you step back and realize something beautiful has been forming the entire time.

I think that is true for healing too.
For motherhood.
For rebuilding yourself after loss.
For learning how to trust your own hands again.

Sh***ri itself is an art rooted in tension, connection, patience, and intention. Creating a beaded interpretation of rope has made me think deeply about all the invisible threads we carry between ourselves and others. The delicate balance between strength and softness. Structure and surrender.

This piece is still unfinished. I still have panels to make, length to build, details to refine. But honestly, I’m learning to love the unfinished version too.

Because works in progress are still worthy of being seen.

***ri

05/20/2026

There is something incredibly intimate about turning thousands of tiny beads into rope.
Not just jewelry. Not just fiber art. Rope. Connection. Tension. Trust.

This beaded rope was inspired by sh***ri — the Japanese art of decorative rope tying. Traditionally, sh***ri is about restraint, but at its core it is also about intention, vulnerability, communication, and beauty. Every knot serves a purpose. Every line across the body is placed with care. The rope itself becomes art.

I love the idea of translating something so traditionally soft and fiber-based into beadwork. The weight changes. The movement changes. Light catches differently. But the intention stays the same.

Beaded rope can be worn, displayed, layered into fashion, incorporated into performance art, or simply appreciated as a meditation in patience and repetition. Every inch takes time. Every section is built bead by bead by bead.

This piece alone is just the beginning of a much larger work, and honestly, creating it feels a little like sh***ri itself: slow, deliberate, grounding, and deeply present.

***ri

05/19/2026

Rope? What do you mean rope?
Trust me your going to want to see the result

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05/18/2026

It’s the look of WTF did I do at the end for me that does it 💕

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