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Artitudes
Designers: Haskell, Weiss, Florenza, Har, Eisenberg, Joseff of Hollywood, Cardin, Erte, Carnegie

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About Artitudes

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About Us
A LITTLE ABOUT ME( ARTITUDES)

I am very excited to be apart of Ruby Lane. I have always been obsessed with beautiful jewelry, antiques & glass. About 10 years I decided to put it all together.

I took several glass classes to learn how to make glass beads. This is called "Lampworking" A new obsession. I created beautiful necklaces with my one of a kind beads using Swarovski crystals, 14K gold and 99.9 fine silver findings.

Adding to my designing in the year 2000, I took many classes and became certified in PMC(precious metal clay).
I became certified with Rio Grande and PMC connection.
I learned how to make my own frame work, solder, and design using 14K gold and 99.9 silver. I learned techniques like keum-boo( the technique of adding gold over silver) and plique-a-jour enameling. I use these techniques to design my jewelry.

In order to take my jewelry designing to a higher level and be very unique about my design in jewelry, I decided to use only the best beads, crystals and findings. I made a decision to use only vintage beads. In my hunt for vintage beads, someone scared me and told me that a lot of beads marked vintage, were really new glass beads struck with old molds. I was concerned about the things that I was selling were not truly what I was describing. I went on a search to find only vintage beads from antique malls house sales and flea markets.

One of the jewelry collectors told me to look up the value of these costume necklaces. I was amazed. I starting reading and studying about the designers and how they got started. I also studied their techniques in how and where they designed this jewelry.

I have a new appreciation for vintage and costume jewelry. I like it better than new fine jewelry. I feel that it is history and willl never be created exactly the same. I am constantly learning new techniques on how to design and finish my jewelry. In this obsession I have become a jewelry collector and also a jewelry dealer. I look for vintage jewelry where ever I go, estate auctions, flea markets, antique shows, garage sales, estate sales and thrift stores.

My favorite items to sell are the signed designers, although I am learning how to tell jewelry from designers that didn't sign their jewelry

My future goal is to be able to have my jewelry collection because of it's workmanship and uniqueness.

I have several affiliations:

Member of Golden Dragon's bead society in Orlando, Florida

Member of PMC Connection

Member of the International Society of Glass Beadmaker's
( ISGB)

Member of NAA( National auctioneer association)

Certified to teach PMC(PMC Connection)

Certified to teach PMC(Rio Grande)

Teach lampworking classes

Volunteer at The Women's exchange in Sarasota, Florida.


Attended may classes with Lucio Bubacco
Master Glass artist in Murano, Italy