Meet Etsy Jewelry Designer & Artist: Luxedesignworkshop

Peg grew up in Jacksonville, Florida where she spent summers at the art museum taking jewelry making and painting classes. "I think that my mother was worried that I would get into trouble if I had too much time on my hands," she jokes. In high school she fell in love with pottery and started selling her early jewelry designs in local consignment shops. "Life was good and I stayed busy," she explains. While in college she worked in the pottery department and focused her efforts on sculptural work, wheel throwing, and glaze techniques. In 1986 she moved to Atlanta, Georgia as a food stylist and later met her husband. "Wow, I never knew that people could earn a living doing what they loved!" She's been making her beautiful jewelry on the side for a few years. "I think that being a creative person makes me rethink the little things around me and I am always recreating something to make it mine. I started out just playing around with jewelry that I already had and made necklaces and bracelets out of materials on hand. I like for jewelry to be more versatile than just one thing so I tie it in a knot, make it a length that can be doubled or tripled to increase its fun. I make necklaces that are all the same length so that I can braid them together and make one fat happy necklace! To me so much of the fun is just playing with the materials and letting them speak of what they want to be." Please check out her shop: http://luxedesignworkshop.etsy.com/
-Wendy Baylis
Dharma Designs
http://dharmadesigns.etsy.com/