My mom started to teach me how to make jewelry at a very young age. She taught me the basics like how to use a torch and how to set a stone into metal. A lot of the techniques I used while developing my own style and creating this  line now were techniques I taught myself how to do. The first line of jewelry I ever made was beach glass wrapping when I was in sixth grade. Whether people bought that jewelry because it was any good or if it was because I was so young is still unknown to me. After doing Beach glass wrapping, I took about one year off from  making jewelry as a whole, before I started working on Island Roots.