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Marge Mills at Personal Designz. Marge creates stunning one of a kind specially designed pieces and creates exclusive items just for you... !
Jewelry Designer ~ Marge Mills
Personal Designz
http://www.etsy.com/shop/PersonalDesignz
I started jewelry design about 7 years ago. Although I do all forms of
Jewelry Design, my main focus is on Wire Wrapping. I love the
technique and have even come up with my own style of "Free Form Wire
Wrapping" . This gives me the opportunity to show off more of the
gemstone that I am working with than the traditional form of wire
wrapping as you do not have to cover as much of the stone to hold it in
place.This lets the true beauty of the gemstone come out in the
piece.
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I have also tried beading, polymer clay, silver metal clay and
seed beadwork. But I always come back to my wire wrapping. Sometimes I will just see a gemstone that calls out to me to make a
setting for it. But a lot of the time it is a client who is responsible
for my return to bending wires.I love to design settings for
gemstones and actually spend a lot of my time designing pieces with
stones my clients have that they love but are just not happy with in
their present setting. I take out the stones and redesign a new piece
for them that they will enjoy with stones that have sentimental meaning
to them...This brings me as much joy as it does them to see that stone
in the new design.
All of my designs are one of a kind...I like that
I can offer that to my clients.
That is what sets us apart from
the jewelry found in department stores... handcrafted jewelry should
have an individuality about it that the client can not find in just any
store. I love being able to give that option to them.
My
inspiration in the arts comes from my Mother... she was a gifted
artist... and a career seamstress. I never grew to love sewing although
I was taught from an early age and can do what I need to when the need
arises to sew, but the love for art became evident when I started to
paint.I owe that to a client of mine.. I am a retired
colorist/stylist. I had a very dear client who was a gifted oil painter. I always envied her ability and one
day as we were discussing her latest art piece, I told her how much I
envied her being able to put the ideas in her head down on canvas.
She quickly told me that she would mentor me in my attempt to paint and
that if she felt that I did not have the potential, as a former teacher
she would tell me and I would know if I had any ability or not. That
was 12 years ago and I still love to paint. The love for the arts
spilled over into jewelry design some 5 years later and I have never
turned back since. I love what I do and if it gives others pleasure,
then it is that much better.
I urge every person who has that
inner desire to create to go for it, do whatever it is that you have
that desire to do. You will get such enjoyment out of creating and what
you create may
just bring joy to another.We all have abilities that
we are not aware of and sometimes it just takes another person to bring
out the best in us...
I am fortunate enough to have a 2 story
house with a loft upstairs which is my little corner of the world. My
office is there as well as my art studio. My first love is oil painting and I still try to devote time to it whenever I get the chance. The room is large enough that I have a corner dedicated to
jewelry design. I love to go to my private space for some real quiet
and relaxation time.
One of my favorite quotes:
Life isn't about
finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
~ George Bernard Shaw
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