I’ve always been creative. My hobbies included knitting, crocheting, embroidery, drawing, singing, dancing since I was a child. However, I chose a material path, studied law and worked as paralegal for many years. My artistic career has resumed back in 2007 once I got bored in Cyprus and office job seemed more and more unbearable. I started drawing again, then learned beading and later fell in love with leathercraft. Initially I’ve got known in connection with a brand Gemsforall I’ve created while I was only working with beads and gems. Later on in 2012 when I started tooling leather I’ve created a new brand called GemsPlusLeather.
My Etsy shop was opened in 2012. It was initially named Gemsforall but later was renamed to GemsPlusLeather (https://www.etsy.com/shop/Gemsplusleather). Since 2020 approximately my schedule is always full at least 3 months ahead. By the end of 2022 my shop’s got about 6,5k followers, 600+ feedbacks and over 2,8k orders despite the fact that I don’t run any promotions. My quality level is high and people find me themselves.
I took part in “Battle of the Beadsmith” contest in 2014. It was time when I wasn’t booked months ahead and could dedicate 2 months of my time to preparation of a contest piece. I didn’t win the contest but thanks to it my “Fly with the wind” phoenix necklace got recognition and I’ve got a lot of followers, orders and didn’t have time for the contests anymore.