Studio Saturday with Erin Prais-Hintz

Welcome to Studio Saturday! Each week one of our contributors gives you a sneak peek into their studio, creative process or inspirations. We ask a related question of our readers and hope you'll leave comments! As an incentive we offer a free prize each week to bribe you to use that keyboard.
The following week we choose a random winner.

This week's winner is Jill aka The Beading Mommy
Congratulations! You have won a ceramic house button from Tari Sasser of Creative Impressions in Clay. Send Tari an e-mail with your address and she will get it out to you as soon as possible!

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This week we visit the studio of

Erin Prais-Hintz of Tesori Trovati Jewelry.

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Unwritten

No one else can speak the words on your lips.

Drench yourself in words unspoken.

Live your life with arms wide open.

Today is where your book begins.

The rest is still unwritten. 

~ Natasha Bedingfield

This month has been all about the story for me. I am honored that the sweet ladies at Vintaj chose me to represent their May theme of 'storybook' for their monthly Art Bead Partnership. Vintaj has been important to me in telling my own creative story and this month has been such a delight for me!

{imagine - castle - available on Etsy}

I created nine new limited edition 'simple truths' designs to go with the storybook/fairy tale theme. I also had a lovely interview with the ladies at Vintaj and posted a video blog of where my creative story lives... in my basement... late, late, late at night... with chaos all around (try not to laugh too hard at my space ;-)

To wrap up this fairy-tale-come-true for me, and to keep to the theme of this month with my quarterly Challenge of Literature (there are 34 really talented people playing with me to reveal their literature inspired creations on a blog hop on May 31st!), I thought I should do something a bit fun.

{storybook story beads - limited edition phrases - available on Etsy}

So I started a with progressive story starter on my blog post here, and invited my readers to add to the story, line by line, in the comments. Not only are there some incredibly creative jewelry designers, but there are some skilled storytellers as well! 

{happily ever after - available on Etsy}

So far there are magic hats, and quilts and keys... dragons and owls and fairies... a princess named Angelina and a Lady Erina ;-)... a castle on the edge of a forest in Wisconsin... and all sorts of creative twists and turns.

You still have time to add your line to the story...

The comments on this post will be open just through today, Saturday, May 12th.

{write your own happy ending - available on Etsy}

To sweeten the deal to entice you to comment, I am giving away a very special prize on my blog to a random comment on this post. Want to know what it is? Go and check it out! There is no limit on the number of comments  you can leave, the only rule is that you have to keep the story going! Next week  I will see if I can pull all the comments and compile the story including writing my own happy ending!

{tales they tell - tulips - available on Etsy}

But I need to gift a lucky reader of Art Bead Scene with a prize today as well. I will give away one of the 'tales they tell' tulip pendants pictured above to a random comment on this post.
To win, all you need to do is answer this question...

Every person has a tale to tell and every art bead can tell it.

Which art bead artist(s) do you feel could tell YOUR tale best with their artisan components?

Erin Prais-Hintz invites you to go on a journey of inspiration at her blog Treasures Found :: Inspiration is Everywhere. You can view a gallery of her work at http://www.tesoritrovati.com/ or purchase her new line of 'Simple Truths' in her Etsy shop.