Lea Peot Jewelry  

Thanks for visiting my webpage.  If we have not already met, I hope that our paths cross soon!  I am so very fortunate to be able to combine my passions and skills to create and sell beautiful jewelry, but I would not be successful without my wonderful customers.    

 Lea   

When I was a child, my mother, a watercolor artist and my aunt, a clandestine poet, encouraged all of my artistic endeavors - theater, music, writing, jewelry making (yes!) and creating various works of art from objects found in nature.  Summers were spent making ovens out of tinfoil and cardboard and dusting pinecones with glitter for our  Christmas gift giving.

These two creative women also are responsible for the beginning of my entrepreneurial endeavors as they encouraged and supported my sister & I in a business selling doll clothes and felt angel ornaments when we were just pre-teens!

My artistic seed has been germinating deep within all of my adult life.  While pursuing a very respectable career in business I tried many "crafts" to satisfy my need to create.  Anything requiring reading and following instructions or patterns went out the window.  I discovered I was most happy when creating and designing my own ideas. 

After searching for the perfect craft hobby I realized I am most happy and most creative when there are no books, instructions or patterns to be followed! 

My ideas for designs and color combinations sometimes come to me in dreams (sounds crazy I know, but it is true!) and I find much inspiration in the colors and sounds of nature.  The guiet north woods, standing beneath an enourmous red pine; the surf crashing at Lido beach in Sarasota; the peaceful silence gliding through the woods on cross country skis.  My cluttered mind clears during these retreats from the clatter of our technology laden world and the ideas for new and wonderful creations come waltzing in.