In 2006 my best friend began teaching me to bead.  She started slow and small with just a few rows of peyote stitch with seed beeds.   I was hooked instantly.   I began buying design books and using the patterns to create my own unique designs.  I started with simple two and three row bracelets but quickly moved to more complicated projects.   I was given a beginner's pattern for a simple ornament drape by a fellow beader and after completing a dozen or so exactly the same, I began modifying the details to create my own twists on the original design. 
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Over the years I have made several hundred "pieces" and now have jewelry and beading projects in boxes, bags, baskets and on shelves.  I am still coming up with new projects all the time.  After some prodding from husband to do something with all of it, this website and the Etsy Shop were born. 

All of the pieces are made by me and often take several days to several weeks to complete.  If I don't like how a pattern looks or how a clasp attaches, I take the whole thing apart and start over. Several pieces have become major projects that I have put down and returned to numerous times over an entire year or longer.  They only show up here when I feel satisfied that they are what I envisioned.  This makes each piece a unique and custom work of art.   

I hope you enjoy looking around here & I would love to hear from you.  Please go to the Contact page and tell me what you think of this site and my designs.  I look forward to bringing you more of my creations and I hope you find as much joy in them as I have making them.

Visit me at my Etsy shop:  sunshinejemsboutique.etsy.com

Sunshine Jems Boutique                                                                   September 2019