Let's Congratulate HelmerJewelry, this week's winner!

You voted, and this week you were dazzled by Helmer Jewelry's Silver & Black treasury!

I asked Becky Helmer, shop owner of Helmers Jewelry to tell me more about herself and her etsy shop.

Unlike many Etsyers, Becky was not born crafty. 'My day job is a research scientist. I study a protein that may be involved in fertility and colon cancer. I am married and have 4 cats and a dog. My husband acts with the local community theatre and I run the Box Office. Until I started creating jewelry, I thought he was the only artistic one [in the family].'

'I came across a tutorial on how to make a simple pair of earrings. I had never...tried to create anything before, so one night while my husband was at rehearsal I decided to give it a try. I fell in love with making earrings and my husband encouraged me to sell them. Around that time I discovered Etsy but it wasn't until January of this year that I really did anything with my shop.'

'I make beaded jewelry and mostly use lucite flower beads, different shaped magnesite beads, and Kenyan/African beads that I got when I went to Kenya last Christmas...[I started] with simple earrings [and] have expanded to making necklaces, bracelets, and mostly recently rings.'

'I am inspired by nature and the things around me. I love going to the local bead store and looking at all the shapes, sizes, and colors of beads. Something always catches my eye, then I search for what else will work with it to make a complete piece of jewelry.'

Becky describes her personal style as casual, but she loves brightly coloured jewelry. 'I tend to plan what I wear around a piece of my beaded jewelry.'

In addition to Etsy, Becky sells her jewelry at a local art market.

'I plan to continue to work at promoting and improving my Etsy shop... I am always trying to think of better ways to display my jewelry.'

You can check out Becky's beaded creations at her Etsy shop.

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