Margot Potter

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Country: USA

Design/Expertise-related information

What technique(s) are you particularly focusing on?
Mixed media, stringing, wire work, re-purposing vintage jewelry with new components, collage, designs that incorporate found objects, vintage images and paper, drilling, gluing and assembling of jewelry elements

Since when have you already been holding workshops?
I have been teaching since I had a bead shop, so for the past ten years.

What fascinates you about using SWAROVSKI ELEMENTS?
Absolutely everything, but most of all the incomparable prismatic light play and sparkle

What is your favorite SWAROVSKI ELEMENTS color?
I love far too many of them to choose just one! Favorites include Erinite, Indian Red, Khaki, Padparascha, Indicolite...and I love vintage colors mink and Titiana AB finish.

What is your favorite SWAROVSKI ELEMENT?
Again I simply can't choose just one! I love them all! I am currently enjoying the coral shapes, twist pendants, cosmic pendant and rings, but I probably use the rounds and briolette pendants more often than any other shapes.

What is your favorite design you have ever created with SWAROVSKI ELEMENTS?
The Baba Yaga Necklace for the CREATE YOUR STYLE with SWAROVSKI ELEMENTS Inspiration Book "Design Expressions from Brazil &Russia"

Personal information

What are your hobbies?
Jewelry making, mixed media and collage, collecting vintage paper, jewelry and clothing, visiting flea markets, thrift stores and estate sales, performing and listening to music, reading, caring for our chickens and pot bellied pigs, travel

How would you describe yourself in three words?
Inspired, impatient, irreverent.

What would you definitely take with you on a lonely island?
A fascinating companion, a case of good wine, a stash of great books, a lap top with a satellite card or pens and paper and jewelry making supplies of course.

What is the first thing at the day you usually do?
Contemplate the day ahead while staring out of the huge windows of our 127 year old school house.

What is your motto of life?
Life is short, be sparkly!