Ngozi- Blessed Beadwork

Accessories – New York - NYC

I Ngozi Lamar Beane am a 34 year old Jewlery Designer from Atlanta Ga now living in Brooklyn NY. As the owner of Ngozi-Blessed Beadwork I specializes in unique handmade and well crafted jewelry. Customizing pieces for both men and women, my goal is to help everyone look and feel their best threw wearable art. I first started making jewelry when I was a pre-teen. My Grandmother worked at a bead shop, and being that I spent a lot of time with her I also spent a lot of time at the bead shop. That is where I originally fell in love with beads. I played around with beading for the next few years. Mostly single strand necklaces and earrings, but once I got a little older and beads were no longer cool I stopped. Fast forward 15-16 years later I found myself dealing with a spat of depression that I just could not shake. After about 3 months of wallowing in it I finally decided I needed to do something to get me back to myself. I sat myself down and wrote out a list of things that I used to enjoy doing but no longer did. I would give each a try and then decide which I would chose to be my new hobby. (I desperately needed something to do with myself) In the end beading won. I had a few necklaces that had come apart. So I started with just stringing those back together. I began to remember how much I enjoyed beading (and how good at it I was). To add a cherry to the Sunday we now had YouTube. So with the help of the local library and YouTube I have taken my depression and anxiety into beautiful pieces of wearable art.