I am so excited to get started. I began making jewelry several years ago when I was diagnosed with cervical cancer. I was 38 years old and facing a total hysterectomy and weeks of recuperation. A local beading shop was offering classes on beading a Mother's Day bracelet and I decided to take my six year old daughter for a bonding experience. It was one of those things that I always wanted to know how to do, and I felt a sense of urgency to try it...especially with her. We both fell in love with the art form, and it soon became my place of Zen. I could express myself creatively and it took my mind off of all of the negative thoughts that crept up on me in the middle of the night. I no longer bead, but have transitioned from that to metalworking. It started innocently enough; I took a chainmaille class and was hooked. Soon I was studying all I could about patterns and taking as many classes as I could find in my area. To feed my obssesion, I started making my own jump rings and clasps...I joke that jump rings were my "gateway drug" to metalworking. I couldn't get enough...my husband, ironically a steel fabricator, brought me som eletricains ground wire home. I stripped it and began playing with the wire. My unique pieces were for myself alone, and drew a lot of attention. I was soon selling them right off of my body and my business was born. You need to have a ferocious personality to put yourself out there when it comes to self-expression, so what better name for my big, bold, unique metal pieces. I love working with wire but wanted to expand my abilities so I began studying at Baum School of Art in Allentown under the tuteledge of the awesome Bill Leth. Metalworking is new to me and I have a fierce desire to create. There is something about working with metals that feeds a need I didn't know I had. I've just set up my workbench in a small corner of my husband's shop and I am shamelessly stealing his tools. I've got a lot of resourses and A LOT of questions. So, please be patient with me. I'm curious, a good listener, and I jump in with both feet... I'm also I am now cancer free and have found my passion. My motto is...Believe in yourself….there is no such thing as coincidence….and most of all *******Follow Your Bliss********-Joseph Campbell Love and hope, Kerry; http://ferrousious.etsy.com