I'm a Renfair geek... my family used to help out with the local middle school Renaissance club, and we still go to fairs and also "geek conventions" pretty regularly.

My Christmas present in 2007 was a class at the awesome Appalachian Center for Craft, and I decided on metalsmithing. It was kind of over my head, but I decided that the piece I created would look great on chainmaille, so after the class I set out to learn to do maille. The online maille community is awesome, sharing techniques and tutorials, and everything sort of launched from there; wirework was a natural extension.

I especially enjoy doing custom work. Sometimes a customer will ask me to set a stone or other treasure that they've had lying in a box for ages, so that they can wear it. Those items, invested with all that sentimentality and energy, have been some of my favorites.