Hi, I'm Mary Carter.

I inherited my love of jewelry from my mother and grandmother.  Nothing stops my mother in her tracks faster than the warm glow of amber and my grandmother's legacy to me consisted of 2 shirt boxes filled with jewelry collected throughout her life, including some handed down from her mother.  When I finished my first necklace in a community services class, it felt so natural that I wondered why I hadn't started creating jewelry sooner!  It's in my jewelry making that I can let loose and show my colorful side.  I start with beads that inspire me.  Then I sit on my living room floor to play with colors and shapes, combining and rearranging until something symmetrical and unique and beautiful emerges.  I've always been obsessed with pattern and I love the challenge of balancing and bringing order out of the chaos of a mix of beads and other materials.

You may be wondering where the name Bear Chick came from.  In our younger, mushier days, my husband, Dean, used to call me Pooh Bear, which devolved into Bear.  Neither of us remembers where the Chick came from--guess it was just one of those organic things.  When it came time to name my company, I wracked my brain for days trying to come up with something memorable but decidedly ME.  Then Bear Chick popped into my head and the more I lived with it the more I liked it.  It felt comfortable...and ME.

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