I am a teacher who enjoys teaching adults how to create jewellery. I teach skills in workshops & through the creation of projects in kits. The kits feature clear instructions that are step-by-step and well-illustrated with photos and diagrams.

I am a business owner who sells beadwork and chainmail kits I create and the tools, books & supplies that I use in my work.

Most of my beading and chainmail skills are self-taught using information from books, the internet, and trial and error. I learn from my fellow beaders at the Toronto Bead Society, and the Grand River Bead Society, as well as at the annual Texas Beaders' Retreat in Temple, TX. I love to travel to take classes from recognized experts (and to visit bead stores of course).

Three pathways are developing.

• First is a love of pattern and design from different eras and cultures and its reflection in my jewelry designs.

•Second is my enjoyment of teaching jewelry classes to adults. (This is not surprising given the many computer classes I used to teach to teachers.)

•Third is the satisfaction of developing jewelry kits that use clear, step-by-step directions and are illustrated with understandable diagrams and photos. This process is extending into the publishing of on-line projects at Beading Times and The Bead Bugle.

William Hodge, Sir Sandford Fleming College, Haliburton campus
Haliburton School of the Arts
5-day class - Beading

Jennifer Campbell, George Brown College, Toronto
Basic Wire Art Jewellery
40 hour course

Don Pierce, at Creative Expressions, Palm Springs CA
2-day class - Beadloom Weaving

Virginia Blakelock & Carol Perrenoud, University of Minnesota, Duluth MI
Split Rock Arts Program
5-day class - Beading on a Loom

Karen Lewis KLEW at Beaucoup Congé, Tucson AZ
1-day Polymer Clay class

Bette Kelley, Yellow Springs, OH
2-day Broadcollar class

Rodrick Owen, at My Father's Beads, Springfield OH
2-day Kumihimo class

Jay Humphreys, Tucson AZ
3-day Precious Metal Clay class

David Chatt
3-day Right-Angle Weave workshop at the Gardiner Ceramic Museum in Toronto

Michael David Sturlin,
2-day ADC class held in Tucson AZ
Hand-crochet chain with fine silver

Cynthia Rutledge, held in Toronto ON
1-day class, The Tibetan Bangle

Toronto Bead Society - techniques workshops twice yearly, Spring Bead Fair, May 2008

BeadFX, Toronto - see classs schedule

Bead Junction Toronto - see classs schedule

Canadian Embroiderers' Guild Guelph - Fall '02 - Beadwork Series

Wellington County Museum & Archives, Summer Art Workshops July 2003

The Bead School, Toronto 2004

Folk Artist-in-Residence: Beadwork, Joseph Schneider Haus, Kitchener 2007

Texas Beaders Retreat 2008

Friendship Beading Retreat Quebec - July 2008

Canadian Bead Oasis Show, June in Calgary, August in Montreal, & September in Toronto - 2008

Creativ Festival October 2008

To Bead True Blue Feb. 1-6, 2009

Private classes - ongoing