Featturing, Sarasinart, Beautiful Beaded Jewelry!

I discovered a talented bead artist called SarasinArt that creates beaded jewelry using natural materials which are earthy and unique. She uses various materials and styles to suit any outfit or personality! She is currently working with some components from India, China and Tibet! She carries lots of choices including necklaces, earrings and bracelets.

Here are a couple examples of her gorgeous bead work in a necklace and bracelet. Please visit her site listed below for more great options!

Funky Fresh Water Pearl and Mother of Pearl Necklace, Copper Toggle

This is one of my favorites, it is really edgy and fun! This necklace is funky, with long pieces of mother of pearl and freshwater pearls and copper. Some of the pieces of mother of pearl are 1 3/4" long, but most are about 1". The necklace is 17" long. Copper seemed to want to go with these colors, so she added some round copper beads between the five pieces of mother of pearl at the center, then added a nice solid copper toggle. It's a fun, lively necklace that's sure to inspire comments!

Chunky Brown Bracelet, Multi Gemstones, Czech, Bone and Copper Beads.
This bracelet has Moukaite, jasper, onyx, several kinds of bone beads, several styles and colors of Czech glass beads, a couple African trade beads, copper beads, too many beautiful things combined to mention them all! It will wrap 4 times around your wrist. The brass bell and the little copper leaf add some fun, and wearing this will be all fun, and you will get compliments. Altogether, it makes a very classy looking bracelet, for dressing up or even with jeans and a neat neutral colored shirt.

I asked Sarasinart a few questions about herself and her art-Enjoy!

Tell me about yourself and your art
I'm 62 and have loved jewelry all my life. I began making some jewelry several years ago. I work full time in mental health, and that's pretty intense sometimes. Making jewelry is my relaxation and my "time away from it all." I am known as earthy and so is my jewelry. I like to live as close to the earth as I can, remembering that we are visitors here.
My favorite type of beads are African trade beads, and I have come to be known best for them. The beautiful colored beads from Ghana are of a special interest to me. The bead-making in Africa is both a source of income in an impoverished area, and a labor of love that dates back centuries in methods.
Most of my sales come from local shows and well-organized street fairs in the warmer months.

Can you share a couple tips for our readers?
2.Buy very good materials, because your items will show that you do; and always share with the customer what the components are. Give the very best customer service you can, because happy customers are returning customers.

How did you get started in your business?
3.Being a few years from retirement, and having been making jewelry for a couple years, I decided to try to market some things. I'm hoping I can build enough business to supplement my retirement if the economy holds up well enough for me to be able to retire before I'm ancient! Nonetheless, having my jewelry business is very enjoyable to me, but is just part-time while I'm still working. So it's good for now, and good for later!

How do you get out of a creative funk?
4.A creative funk is bad. Several times when that happened I simply stepped away for a couple days, then bought some beads or components, something "different", and left them lay on my work table. Usually within a few days those items that I had no real purpose in mind for, take on a purpose and a plan in my brain, and I'm off and running again!

Find SarasinArt below! Thanks SarasinArt for being our featured Artisan!

http://www.artfire.com/users/SarasinArt

http://www.facebook.com/?ref=home#!/pages/SarasinArt/220821782003

http://www.hexfolkmarket.com/shops/gypsy

http://sarasinart.wordpress.com/

http://twitter.com/#!/SarasinArt