Featured Artisan!!!

Congratulations Paula!!!

Paula Schertz of Paula Dawn Creations is our featured Artisan of the Month!

Beads made with G-109 and Goldstone

Having only been lampworking for one year Paula has directed her talents in multiple directions, from making glass candy to small sculptural beads to organics and bright colors. She's been active with Beads of Courage, taking advantage of the frit offered for free play to experiment and see what she likes as she begins to to try everything out. "I am still new to lampworking and have a lot to learn. I am still trying to come into my own. I hope to someday find what my style is. Most of all I want to continue to grow as an artist. Also, I have a frit addiction," Paula says when asked what she enjoys best.

Beads made with KS-CB-003 Frit

Paula is married and has 3 grown sons and 9 grandsons. She has always enjoyed creating: she knits, crochets, makes jewelry although she'll tell yo that she still has a lot to learn about jewelry making techniques. She sews, gardens and loves to read.

Candy Beads

Paula has always loved glass, remembering being entranced with some colored glass window panes at her cousin’s house across the street from where she lived when she was little. She worked at the glass blowing and cutting shop at Cedar Point as a sales clerk during her first summer out of high school, and even worked stained glass for a short time.

Etched beads made with KS-CB-001 frit

Like many lampworkers when she melted glass for the first time she was hooked. "There is something to melting the glass that just relaxes me." She has been mainly working 104 coe glass and just recently decided to expand the palette to 90 and 96 coe and is ready to give boro a try. "I love playing with glass."