Ariana R. Cherry has had a love of beads ever since she was a young girl. She remembers finding beads probably when she was around 10. Her mom used to let her string pony beads on leather cord, and she actualy sat out in her driveway one year during a festival to try selling some of them--She does remember selling one of them-it was an orange and blue colored one that was supposed to stand for the Chicago Bears Football team. After that, she began falling in love with beading. She would take her bead collection away with her to church camp during the summer and make bracelets for her camp friends, and would bead away on her summer vacations when school was out.....

Now as a mother, and working lady, she has rediscovered her passion all over again after finding her old collection of beads. These days, she's busy finding new beads, swarvoski crystals, and books & design ideas to add to her collection. She creates jewelry as a way to "destress" and also to full-fill her creative spark-she loves seeing what kinds of colors and patterns that she can put together.

Ariana is self taught and recently a small collection of hers won 2nd place at her local County Fair. Her designs have caught many eyes, and she gets compliments on them almost daily.

Recently she has decided to begin selling her jewelry and donating portions of her earnings to the American Cancer Society. She lost both of her grandfathers to cancer, and recently her husband also lost his grandfather to cancer as well. She wants to become a part of helping find a cure for the disease.

Ariana currently sells her jewelry online here at her website, Ebay, in a couple of stores in her area, and also at the local farmers market in the summer where she lives.

Also, along with Ariana's passion for beading, she also enjoys writing poetry in her free time. She is also a self published author with a published book titled
" The Real Me-Xtended & Through Her Eyes "