Jaclyn has been making jewelry for as long as she can remember, raised in a home where creativity took up a lot of space - literally. Her mother kept a craft room in their home larger than their living room, and it became the heart of her childhood, a place where making things by hand felt as natural as breathing. Her father (in true girl-dad fashion) was happy to sit on the floor with her for hours making jewelry. It became a family joke that every summer Jaclyn would haul two suitcases on the plane to her grandmother’s house in New York: one for clothes, and one entirely for beads. Her parents also shared a love of geology, so she grew up wandering gem & mineral shows, falling in love with the hidden magic inside the earth. She later earned degrees in both English and Psychology and then taught herself geology and entomology, blending all those passions into the work she creates today. Over the past twenty years, her crystal jewelry and insect art has appeared in museums, hotels, libraries, and even on TV shows such as Law & Order, Bones, Pretty Little Liars, Fuller House, Marvel Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., and This Is Us. She is now newly married, a mom to a wildly curious little girl, and excited to pass on the same creative wonder that shaped her own childhood.