Jewelry Designs With America In Sight

Kharisma Ryantori, owner of Popnicute, actually goes by Kay Sommers. "Kay as short for Kharisma and Sommers is my fiance's last name. Since my clients are mostly speaking English I thought that name more English friendly than my real name. Kharisma lives in Surabaya, Indonesia. Surabaya is a big city, the second biggest in Indonesia next to Jakarta. Surabaya is pretty near to Bali, which is quite nice. Bali has some gorgeous Silver that I need for my jewelry."

"I'm a self taught wire wrapper. I've always been fascinated by the arts and crafts world and have been trying various kind of arts and crafts all my life. From oil painting, digital painting, gift wrapping, to jewelry. Basically anything that sparks my interest. My first jewelry was made when I took a short course in paper clay. I made cute animal heads and sold them to schoolmates as necklaces. That was 10 years ago. I tried bead stringing, but since college took most of my time, I stopped doing it and only occasionally did it when my mom and aunts wanted me to make them jewelry. I have a degree in visual communication design and I'm also a freelance graphic designer."

"In summer 2008, I made my first wire wrapped jewelry and I fell in love in instance. I feel that this is my true calling. The possibility is endless and ideas keep coming. My fiance's mother bought me my first 6 spools of colorful wire. I live in Indonesia where wire wrapping is not popular so not much material is widely available here. Most of my material is imported from around the world. My fiance's is American. From 2006 I tried to collect some money to help me move to America. Regular job just wouldn't do, so I started to accept digital painting commissions online and now selling jewelry."

"Usually when I saw something that I like, it can spark my ideas. Colors, magazine, beads, flowers, plants, anything visual. Sometimes the ideas had nothing to do with what I saw. It's kind of like one thing lead to another and another and another. Browsing some "eye candy" in the internet definitely helps. I don't like to copy others works so even though I may start with something similar, they usually end up looking completely different. But that's the way I like it. My signature creation is my Cocoon Beads."

"One of my plan is to get married and to be finally together with someone I love. Right now we're in a long distant relationship. We have plans for the future to open our own studio. For graphics and jewelry. We both have graphic design as our educational background."

Visit www.popnicute.etsy.com and www.artfire.com. Surabaya, Indonesia