My name is Sylvia Holtman.

I've been designing jewelry for over 15 years and making beads for over 12 years.

My favorite is wire wrap jewelry, although I'm enjoying traditional setting as we as doing restringing for people.

I also enjoy the style some call "sculpted" wire jewelry. This jewelry is fashioned by using Sterling Silver wire, or 14K Gold wire (or you can use 14K Gold, but it is very expensive compared to the Gold Filled). The 14K Gold Fill wire is NOT a plated wire--it is also called Rolled Gold. It will not rub off or wear off with normal use and care. It produces a nice quality piece of jewelry for a reasonable price--something most of us can identify with.  It is a material that contains over 100x the amount of Gold that plated wire has and is over twice the cost of Sterling Silver in its raw materials form.  

I also use genuine and Lab grown stones and many styles of Cameos.

 The Handmade lampwork glass bead part of my jewelry creations was begun about 12 years ago.

I went to a show in Seattle, Washington and watched a guy make a Panda bear bead and immediately said "I want to do this !"

So I bought a book and learned from that.   Back then there was no one to ask and you just had to learn by "just doing it".

 As you can see from the picture above it is quite an enjoyable experience.

 Since then, I have taught local classes in both the wire jewelry and the glass beadmaking. Currently I am learning to blow glass and plan to become more adept at small blown vases and such. I was fortunate to take some classes with Loren Stump who is well known for his expertise in glass. That was a wonderful experience and I learned many things.

My family and I live in Central Washington state in the country and we enjoy our horses and country life. My shop is open here locally to drop in and see what is being made or to just browse around. Please call me before you come so I can be sure to be here.

 Classe are avaliable if you are close to my area.

Just give me a call or send me an email. I'd love to hear from you even if you just want to stop by. :-))

Local Retail Shop

315 S 10th Ave Yakima Wa

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 Contact Me--Sylvia

 Phone me? 1-509-469-8669