Bead Chat Magazine Summer 2014 | Page 52

Meet The Maker Heather Powers many ugly beads along the way. I like to call them learning experiCould you tell our readers a little about the hisences. I made tory of Humblebeads? beads for my line of jewelry that I sold at local markets and in galI started playing with polymer when I was in art leries. I sold jewelry to pay for our living expense school in the early 90's and there was only one during college. The name Humblebeads comes book on the subject! Without a lot of direction from the humble material of polymer clay, it with the new medium, I just jumped in and startwasn't seen as an artistic medium but thankfully ed to see what I could make with clay taking a it has proven otherwise over the years. lot of cues from an earlier lampwork experience. The Humblebeads you know and love today There were many years of trial and error and artisanwhimsy.net