Hi, thank you for visiting HotJewels Design! My name is Maria, I melt glass and design beaded jewelry. I'm Indonesian, living in beautiful Ontario, Canada. I found lampwork beads a few years ago on Ebay while looking for gemstones for my jewelry design. I fell in love and started collecting them. In 2006 I took a lampworking introductory class at BeadFX, about 6 months later I decided to buy my equipments. It wasn't an easy decision because I had doubts that I would be any good at it. During one of my late night email conversation with Corina, one of my favorite artist, she told me to go for it. I did, and I'll be forever grateful that I listened to her. Her book, Passing the Flame, is the one book I will continue to learn from for a long long time. Then I had one private class with Amy Waldman, and I've been happily melting glass eversince, and I just know that this is what I want to do for the rest of my life.

My lampwork beads and jewelry designs are unique, each pieces are one of a kind, I create them with love and I wouldn’t make anything that I wouldn’t wear myself. Both art go hand in hand and doing them is such a joyful thing for me, I consider myself lucky to be able to do this. I get so much joy and peace especially from melting glass, with my humble creations I wish to share them with you. Thank you!