Begun several years ago while attaining her Masters degree in Medical Illustration, the jewelry started while wondering if the cochlea existed as a piece of jewelry to buy. Finding such pieces few and far between, she decided to try her hand at it herself. Everything else has come as a result - expanding to other pieces of anatomy and exploring botany, and even ice.

Michelle enjoys the entire process of jewelry and artwork creation - from careful research to digital modeling to packaging and shipping off the finished creations to expectant customers.

The results that weren't anticipated were the unique and personal stories she continues to hear and cherish about why customers have purchased the jewelry -- often these stories stem from difficult medical disease or injuries, and the need to remember or mark them. Knowing that the jewelry has a strong meaning to these individuals is especially powerful fuel in continuing her work.