Why Caroline Does?

As an artist, it was hard for me to choose a direction to take my creativity without limiting myself and while still having fun and enjoying what I do. Around the end of 2020, I decided to buy a pack of polymer molding clay, and the rest is history. I created incense burners, mouth trays, earrings charms, and clay beads to make bracelets and necklaces. Once I realized how much I liked creating jewelry, I moved towards clay jewelry and started purchasing beads and natural stones.

I began to use the natural stones to make rosaries and earrings, while using my previous practice to continue improving upon the new skills I was learning. All of the jewelry knowledge I have is from self teaching and experiment. I create to bring joy to others and for myself. Jewelry making has been a hobby I continuously stick with and keep close to me, even as other things in my life have come and gone.

Everything I make holds a piece of my soul. Everything I do, I do it to the best of my current ability, and I am always striving for better. Everyone who loves me and supports me is why I still create. Seeing the joy on my mom's face (my biggest supporter) when I give her earrings I make specially for her. She wears them everyday, it's the only jewelry she wears besides her wedding ring.

I love meeting people at markets and creating shared memories of joy with others. I reflect back on the last 6 years of jewelry making, and I can see that my life would be drastically different without it.