Welcome to Yvonne Shea Designs, the beadwork of Yvonne Shea.
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My name is Yvonne Shea, and I create and design jewelry. This is my web site to show and share the jewelry that I create.
My creative history goes back to my childhood. My mother had six sisters, and we would often drive from Oklahoma to Minnesota to visit them on our summer vacations. These wonderful and creative women were expert crafters and had learned from their mother on the farm in Minnesota to make something out of nothing. My mother is now 95 years old and is still teaching a knitting class. Although some of her sisters have passed on, I'm sure they are up there sitting in their rocking chairs blissfully knitting something. They are an amazing group of women.
The Krause sisters; Hazel, Adelaide, Mildred, Katherine, Leona, Doris and my mom Frances; were all gifted and creative women. I remember visiting them as a young girl and seeing them bring out their latest projects of hand made clothing, beaded jewelry, quilts, knitted sweaters, baby clothes, flower arrangements, crocheted afghans, tatted doilies, lace shawls or embroidered wall hangings. There was no stopping them when it came to creativity and hand crafted works of art.
Creating things is in my blood. I am my mother's daughter. Making something out of nothing is what I like to do. Actually, for me, the creative process is more like taking two or more items, or colors or wool yarn or colors of beads and combining the ingredients in such a way that the finished article is a thing of beauty and something far prettier than the sum of its parts.
This web site will show the things I have created and share them with you. I do not make jewelry because I want to sell it. I sell jewelry because I want to make it, and because I have far more than I could ever possibly wear. I am a one woman creative factory. Combining beautiful colors together, adding light and sparkle, and twisting them into a shape that is attractive, eye-catching, appealing and beautiful is what I do.
The creative process in making jewelry is nothing like an assembly line. I start with an idea, or a color combination, or an inspiration from something I have seen, and I combine beads and wire until I have "the look". Sometimes it comes fast, and sometimes it takes awhile, but I keep arranging and combining until the piece "pops". Boom. The piece is perfect and pretty and uniquely my own. It's a wrap. Done.
I have included pictures of the wire-wrapped earrings and crocheted wire necklaces that I make and which are for sale through Ebay or through emailing yvonne@yvonneshea.com.
I accept paypal, money orders and checks. I am happy to talk with you about special orders.
Visit Yvonne's personal weblog, Flowers and Fiber.