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If you’ve ever submitted a piece of jewelry to a magazine, book, or bead show, you’ve had to sit down and write a few sentences about yourself. “Oh, that’s easy!” might have been your first thought. But then you actually tried to do it. Chances are you couldn’t limit yourself to just three sentences. Or, worse yet, you couldn’t come up with that many! This seemingly simple exercise can quickly turn into something that causes a twinge in the neck.

When I was editor at Beadwork magazine which is, in my honest opinion, still the best beading magazine available on the market today!, designers often moaned about this part of their submission. I told them that bead enthusiasts the world over would be reading their projects and would want to know where the designer comes from and what they’re up to. That’s what makes us beaders a tight community, right? Plus, I reminded them that beading is an art form just like any other, so artists like us need to know how to do things like write short bios--it’s just part of the deal.

Writing an artist bio is also just good business, especially if you’re selling your work. Viki Lareau, author of Marketing and Selling Your Handmade Jewelry points out that “The goal [in writing a good bio] is to make that connection. The more someone knows about you, the artist, the more connected that person feels to you, and the more comfortable they will feel doing business with you.” She’s got it right--having a good bio is an important building block to creating an identity for your business. Buy Marketing and Selling Your Handmade Jewelry.
Necessity aside, there will still be those that are hopelessly stuck. For those of you, here are some tips to get started:
K.I.S.S.
This is something my mom used to tell me all the time: Keep It Simple, Sugar! She used to actually say “Stupid.” It was funny if you knew my mom. Since you only have a few sentences to work with, you can’t tell everything about yourself, so pack each sentence with your most important facts. Save the long soliloquies about your creative process for your blog and just list the whos, whats, wheres, and whens.
Shamelessly Plug

A short bio is like free advertising, so use the opportunity! Toot your horn about articles you’ve published, awards you’ve won, kits you sell, classes you teach, books you’ve written. Weave these bits of information into each sentence and make sure to include your website or email information for those who are eager to contact you about all the fabulous things you’ve done.

We offer a wide selection of beautiful Ugandan beaded jewelry & Northern Uganda Shea Butter products that create opportunities for empovershed individuals in Uganda. Our handmade paper beads are crafted into necklaces, earrings and bracelets which are a fashionable way to make a difference. We even sell loose paper beads which are perfect for crafting and jewelry making. By purchasing from BeadforLife you are helping to eradicate poverty through sustainable, fair trade practices and by creating educational opportunities for women & girls. Your purchase with BeadforLife helps over 12,000 people in 1,400 households each year.
My background is in graphic design and illustration. I started my line of retro vintage-look jewelry in 1989 under the Diane H. Designs name. My work has appeared in galleries, at fine art shows, in a nationally distributed San Francisco based mail order catalog, in Von Maur Dept. Stores, at trunk shows for Nordstrom’s Dept. Store, and in articles for Bead & Button and Haute Handbag magazine. I have been making jewelry since the 1970’s, beading since 1994, and teaching classes since 2002.

I started Designer’s Findings in 1999 as a sideline to my Diane H. Designs line of vintage-look jewelry - a direct result from inquires by other jewelry artists at the shows I participated in. They were interested in purchasing some of the unusual and hard to find components I was using in my work. Realizing there might be many others who would be interested also, I started Designer’s Findings. I always love to see what my customers have created with the components they purchase from me.

My personal creative journey at the moment is to explore beadwork that reflects a found object esthetic My Beadpunk style, and Victorian-look themes. I continue to experiment with ways to take my work to interesting, new, and uncharted places.
May your beads lead you somewhere new.