VOA慢速英语 珠饰者通过双手结交朋友

　　VOICE TWO:

　　Another successful jewelry designer is Karen Lewis, also known as KLEW, spelled K-L-E-W. She started out more than twenty years ago working with polymer clay. She liked the way she could easily form this plastic modeling material into different shapes. And she liked how she could twist together pieces in different colors.

　　Today, Karen Lewis says she works seven days a week, but loves what she does. She says she earns more than one hundred thousand dollars a year as a bead designer. She owns two stores in California. She also sells her beads to other stores and online. And she sells at bead shows like the one in Santa Fe.

　　VOICE ONE:

　　Jill Wiseman of Austin, Texas, left her job at a high-tech company four years ago to do beading full time. She works with extremely small beads known as seed beads.

　　JILL WISEMAN: "Tiny, tiny, tiny. I always say the smaller the better."

　　VOICE ONE:

　　She also teaches classes on making bracelets and other jewelry. She says one reason she enjoys the jewelry making business is the people she meets. She says people who do seed beading share a great sense of community. They develop friendships just like people who get together to make quilts or do other crafts.

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