The Blues

Pregmom has had multiple careers: teaching, directing theater, training for the Pennsylvania Bureau of Special Education, and now designing handcrafted jewelry. Pregmon never makes the same piece of jewelry twice. She favors organic beads from nature. Many of her pieces feature semiprecious gems but also incorporating seeds, horn, bone, shells and vegetable sources such as tagua and nuts. She loves fair trade beads such as Kazuri porcelain from Kenya and paper beads from Uganda. She is dealing with the effects of Long COVID, making life more difficult. The flow and concentration that the creation of art demands helps control the chaos and pain of multiple disabilities.