Featured Artist – Suzanne Stevens Creates

 

My entire life has been built on a creative foundation. I’ve always enjoyed creative arts, whether in writing (which I did professionally for most of my life), painting (which I’m looking forward to taking up again), jewelry design and, occasionally, acting. I feel a life without art is not really living.

Jewelry design is a new venture; I’ve been doing it for several years now. It all started when I wanted a ‘cool’ eyeglass chain! Like a magpie, I’m attracted to colorful, shiny things and can’t seem to stop ‘collecting’ them (this is true of all my creative outlets!) and channel it into my jewelry designs. Sometimes, even the smallest thing–like a single bead, crystal or stone, will get the creative juices flowing!

I believe that people should be able to have nice, lovely things and original jewelry and art without giving up their first born child, and I try to price my items accordingly. I also believe that owning handmade items beats mass-produced any day!

Basics? Well, I have a bachelor’s degree in written communications and linguistics; I’m married and have four cats. I love traveling and am an unapologetic Anglophile.

Because I’ve been a juvenile (Type 1) diabetic for 43 years, I’m pledging to donate 10% of my Artfire sales to the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation (JDRF) in the hopes of finding a cure.

Check out my work on Artfire.
Read my blog.

           

Tags: art, arts, beaded, Creative Handmade Artisans, crystal, eyeglass chain, Handmade, jewelry, jewelry design, stone

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