About Pamela

One day, for no particular reason, I enrolled in a knotted beading class and I loved it. I then enrolled in a precious metal clay class. I started making jewelry for friends and myself and found that I had a strange ease and skill for it. On Christmas Day 2005 I discovered where this instant passion for jewelry making and innate talent came from.

In my box of Christmas presents from my family was a wrapped box with no tag. I shook the box and heard pieces of something moving around. Inside the wrapping was an old box from A. Holt & Co. with 17-cent stamps on it. On the outside of the box was a note from my Mom explaining how my Dad in his younger years made jewelry out of gold wire.

When I opened the box there was rolled gold-plated wire from A. Holt & Co., many half finished pieces of my Dad’s, his writings of women’s names and descriptions of designs, receipts from A. Holt & Co. dated 1940-1941 with my Dad’s Chicago address, and a catalog from Geo. H. Fuller & Son then out of Chicago with order slips and pre-printed envelopes also from 1940. What a treasure!!

I never knew my Dad made jewelry. I have two pieces of jewelry from my Grandmother, a wireworked bracelet and pin with the name “Grace” on them. I always thought my Grandfather made these, but so happens my Dad did. I sit now and picture my Dad at age 26 living in Chicago (I never knew he lived there either) making his wireworked jewelry; a truck driver by trade with hands as big as baseball gloves making dainty, beautiful jewelry.

I started my jewelry design business in November 2005. Shortly thereafter I quit my corporate job so I could focus on developing my business. A funny anecdote, my attorney went to file the paperwork for my business on October 31st but the clerk didn't accept it so he refiled the next day, November 1st, my Dad’s birthday.

Be inspired,

Pamela