It all started in Junior High...

My First Design     

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      I get my artistic talents from my mom.  She is extremely talented.  She always loved to help me on my art projects, & helped me come up with the most beautiful poster boards for speeches, etc.  Her creativity just flowed so freely out of her.  Even as a young girl I have always explored the world of art.  My mom always found me with these messes all over the kitchen or in my room, but amongst all the mess I sat up with what I considered my finest masterpiece!  I loved to draw, and paint, and create objects.  In Junior high I won the Silver Key for a drawing I did.  My teachers started paying extra attention to me, and always told the class, “watch how Sarah is doing it.”  After a while I started telling myself, maybe I really am talented.  I at that moment decided that I would pursue something in the arts.

         When I got to high school I discovered a class called Jewelry Design.  Mrs. Davis, who studied at Ball State in Jewelry Design and Metal-smithing started this amazing class.  I had never heard of such a class so I decided I really wanted to take it as an elective.  I FELL IN LOVE!  I loved trying to come up with the most outrageous designs.  I had a blast sawing out the metal pieces for fabrication.  I became the best solderer in the class.  I could cast like it was my job.  I created little boxes, pendants, rings, pins.  It was my favorite time of the school day.  It was almost like I was escaping to a different world of creation and fantasy.  The sky was the limit.

        Senior year came and I was trying to figure out where I should go to college.  I packed up all my designs and pieces and traveled to Bloomington.  There at the Indiana University Fine Arts Building I met with the head director of the Jewelry Design and Metal-smithing department.  She loved my designs so much that she became my sponsor.  I was set.  I was heading to Indiana University in the fall and I couldn’t have been happier.  Over the next four years I lived at the Art building, pulling all nighters for impossible projects that I just knew I could create.  A lot of my jewelry pieces are still at the art building on display.  I had a number of them entered into contests etc.  I had the most amazing time earning my degree of Bachelors of Art Major in Studio Art.  and this is where my journey to become the Designer of Sarah Ellen designs begins.