Featuring: Judy Richardson from Catldy99.Etsy.com!

Folks, we've got one accomplished artisan here. Such gifted people are almost intimidating to write about as well as being an exciting endeavor.

Take a look at her education to start:

B.A. University of Minnesota Magna Cum Laude in Technical Theatre

Coursework in Graphic Design at the Academy of Art College in San Francisco, CACoursework in lampworking - Portland, OR

Member of the International Society of Glass Beadmakersseller on ebay for 5 years - over 500-100% positive feedback!

Judy Richards resides in Portland, Oregon where it rains this time of year. A well kept secret is that it doesn't rain all year around.

Judy is a member of the Portland Bead Society, the ORBS (Oregon Regional Beadmakers Society) and the ISGB (International Society of Glass Beadmakers).

She makes lampwork beads and designs jewelry - unique and hopefully artful jewelry. She is always striving for new ideas, new shapes in glass.

Judy is inspired by nature (flowers, birds) depicted in glass. She loves abstract lampwork most of all with layers of glass and complexity. She is always striving to that goal.

She has done the work of reasonably exact glass beads - but yearns to break out of that toward something more complex and deep in an artistic sense. She also has a sense of humor and doesn't take herself too seriously - she is the owner of 2 cats, hence the cat beads.

Judy likes to laugh and make others smile with her work. Judy's dream buyer is the Sundance catalog.

Probably the best things she has made are jewelry with her own lampwork beads and semi precious stones that have sold thare are really pushing the envelope of what we think of as jewelry and adnorment.

Life is but a dream at Dreamon.etsy.com

In her own words she shares:

"I always loved to cut, paste, paint and draw from my earliest memories. Creating art is what I do, it's built-in by my Creator, He enables me, and I love it."

She has a college degree in art. In addition and has taken workshops and classes from some fine national and regionally-known artists. Some of her most important lessons came from not so well-known, but wonderful artists who now paint in the sky, and local artists who teach the basics, as well as the artists she paints with.

She belongs to several art groups in Florida and one in Colorado.

She values the presence of a recognizable subject in my paintings. She loves it when the center of interest appears in the midst of background objects that aren’t so well-defined. She wants her watercolor to look like watercolor, and paintings to have a painterly look, not a photographic copy. Therefore she is an impressionist, because she doesn't ever want to over-control the media.

"I love to paint using a variety of techniques. Having taken an experimental art class for the last 4-5 years, I am likely to paint anything, and I'm always 'playing.'"

ABOUT PRINTS . . If you see a print you like that isn't the size you would like, please convo her and she can usually have it for you in a few days just your size!Also, if there is an original painting in her shop you would like a print of, she will be happy to have one made. She can even have something printed on canvas.

Giclee prints also available, but more expensive to have made, but she will be happy to discuss how you would like your print to come to you.

So dream on...In St Petersburg, Florida .

Crafty-By-Nature......CraftyMoose

When crafting comes so easily, why not do what you love?

Debbie has done just that. Her natural knack for crafting has earned her a store with her own, unique creations!

She has been crafting for as long as she can remember, is self-taught and has enjoyed painting, needlework, quilting, polymer clay and jewelry making.

Most recently, she's found herself drawn to beads and have returned to the art of french beaded flowers. She enjoys making original, one-of-a-kind butterflies & dragonflies.


She is also introducing a new line of one-of-a-kind beaded art dolls and suncatchers.




Custom requests are welcome. All her items are lovingly created in a smoke-free, pet-free environment.




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