Crystal jewelry & other creations handmade with love in the beautiful mountains of Asheville, NC.

My biggest love in life, is creating and sending my creations out into the world. Seeing the way my jewelry and other creations light up someone’s face. Brings some joy to somebody’s day.

You always hear the term “starving artist”, or that “you can’t make a living off of art. But what is truly important? I would say happiness.

What makes your day? What makes you thrilled to be alive? What inspires you? What sets your soul on fire?

Art is my answer. Any form, not strictly jewelry. I mostly make crystal jewelry and accessories. But I also do some woodburning, painting, making dreamcatchers, and whatever else I feel like trying. I enjoy the variety, the freedom of being able to choose what I feel like doing.

I named my shop after my father, Clyde, because he has always been my biggest inspiration. I hope to keep the memory of him alive through my creations. I want nothing more than to spread love and light throughout the world, and to keep his name alive while doing so. He brought so much light into the world.

Ever since I can remember I loved art. All different forms. Everywhere you look, everything is art. When I was a child, I always loved to draw. To paint. To create.

Growing up, my father did a little bit of this and that, constantly striving for new inspiration and ideas. When he was in school, he never had an art class that was offered but he always wondered how far he could have gone if he had been given the chance. I believe that he had already accomplished so much in his short 43 years of life, and that you don't need art education to truly be able to create. All art is different, not one painting or drawing or wire wrap is the same as any other. All art is beautiful in it's own unique way.

My father was a woodworker. He made so many beautiful things. Lamps and walking sticks. Benches and bird houses. He would draw intricate designs and drawings on his pieces and either paint them on or wood burn them. Sometimes, when I smell certain types of wood, it takes me back to his workshop. All of the different tools and saws. He would either have a movie or music playing in the background as he worked. The sawdust covering every inch of everything. Sometimes I would want to help but he was worried I would get hurt, so I would help clean. I know it probably sounds silly, but I would take one of his old paint brushes, and I would go through dusting all of the sawdust off of everything and push it all into the floor to vacuum it up.

In art classes throughout school, I was always so nervous to do my work around the other students. There was so much comparison and criticism, it made me feel uncomfortable. My father passed away my junior year of high school, when I was 17. For about the next two years after that, I began to despise art class all together, I didn't even take an art class my senior year. But once I was out of high school and on my own, that was when I truly threw myself into my work. Once I had begun to find the person I wanted to be, realized who I was and how much like him I was, that was when I really realized that art was my one true passion. I began finding my own style. When it comes to drawing/painting, I love to work with just black ink and watercolor. I love the play on the black and white against a rainbow of colors. Both are beautiful in their own ways, it is hard to not appreciate them both.

In memory of my father, I did a piece where I drew a lion with his mane in different detailed doodles, because my father was a Leo. I did water color roaring out of his mouth and hidden behind the water color is the constellation for Leo. That was probably one of the first pieces I had ever done that I was truly proud of.

As a child, my father had taught me some of the basics of making jewelry. In 2015-2016, I began wire wrapping crystals. The first 50 or so wire wraps I had made, I gave away as gifts because I was wanting to work on my skills and I wasn't very confident in my work with them just yet. It finally reached a point where everyone I worked with was asking me daily if they could buy some off of me. They were all such a huge inspiration and encouraged me to make an online website to try and sell them outside of our work. How could I not? I constantly had people telling me how beautiful they were and they gave me so much hope. They helped me realize that you really can do anything you put your mind to and to not let anything discourage or stop you. I am now consistently striving to learn more techniques and skills and to create as many new things as possible.

I originally had an Etsy, where I sold all of my work. I recently decided it was time to make my own website since I am hoping to do this full time in the near future. I had reached almost 400 sales, before I decided to close my Etsy shop.

I truly am so thankful for all of the encouragement, inspiration and support I have been given through the last couple of years. Everyone has been so wonderful. All I want to do is give back, in any way that I can and truly show my appreciation and love.

Thank you all for reading.
Love & Light!