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.

Be inspired,

Pamela