It's our birthday!! As part of the festivities, I am answering 15 questions to celebrate 15 years of making jewelry! 

Question 2: Who is Zero?

Also known as "Which one of you is Zero?" - the most commonly asked question in our craft show tent. How many times did I have to fake a smile when asked that question? The world will never know.

Zero is my dog. Well he was my dog. He died a few years ago. He was a Jack Russel who was living life 110% until one day his age caught up with him overnight. I hear that's how Jack Russels are. 

He was a personality and a half. Totally neurotic and way too smart - he failed out of obedience training because he was too stubborn. He was sweet but a HANDFUL. I appreciated his big personality but sometimes I just wanted him to slow down and relax! 

 He was such a nut!

It's our birthday!! As part of the festivities, I am answering 15 questions to celebrate 15 years of making jewelry! 

Question 1: What was your earliest logo?

Let me begin by saying I designed it myself. Let me finish by saying I majored in graphic design for only one semester. It was - ahem - the 1990's; the minute we switched from hand-drawing graphic design to computer-only graphic design I changed my major to Studio Art. I did not want to be tied to a computer all day - lololololol.

I can’t find an actual image file because it was 15 years ago - when I still had a Dell, dude! Who even knows what program I used to design it! What design software was on PC computers 15 years ago?

You can see this early logo in all its glory on a banner from my very first craft show in Clarksville, TN in April 2006. 

It's a look.

Fun fact about my first show: the first day was 10 hours long and I sold one pair of earrings. All. Day. It was a rough start, but I was not deterred! I made those earring displays myself and adorned them with sushi grass. I felt so creative.

Listen, we all have to start somewhere.