I have been working double time over this past year. I've been keeping up with new work for each season for this website, for Artful Home, and for American Craft Council Pop-Ups. In addition diving into the recycle bin and coming up with beautiful colors of plastic. That's right I'm using single use plastic in my jewelry.

     I'm aware that many will think throw away plastic doesn't belong in jewelry. You could be right, but then we would be missing out on brilliant, flexible material that all of us are surrounded with. At first, I was attracted to the colors. As time has gone by and I've worked with the single-use plastic I've realized it can also support beads, be manipulated with heat, and cut into any shape to represent natural or manmade objects. As you will see below this new endeavor is getting some favorable attention.