About Our Staff:

Brenda worked for many years in high tech in the satellite industry and was Director of Marketing for 2 start-up companies in Silicon Valley. She studied glass blowing at San Jose State University with Mary White as Professor. Her experiences in the furnaces make it possible for her to work directly with the blowers and to assist in the creation of new products.

Both Bob and Brenda have studied beadmaking with San Francisco artists. Shown here, Brenda had a very honored opportunity to work with a glassmaster and furnace owner in Murano.

Bob is a retired electrical engineer and part-time professor of Engineering. He solves all our material problems and has experience with "cold work" of glass, polishing, cutting and grinding. This knowledge of the materials, and experience in working with the glass is a great asset working with beadmakers and glassblowers.

Jeff (Brenda's son) and his wife Tanya have been working alongside Bob and Brenda for the since 2000. They, too, fell in love with the glass, the people and the islands and work with our beadmakers and glassblowers. We refer to their new daughter Marcella as our little "Italian" baby. Marcella will soon be counting beads as she loves going to the "beadshop" and has her favorite beads already. She spends lots of time with us in the beadshop much like little kids in Venice. She is adept at string beads but her color coordination needs some developing. Matteo joined us in 2007 and spends many afternoons napping at the shop.

Vincenzo (Vince) was born in Brescia, Italy. He is an avid car restorer, the older the better. Currently he is restoring a 1940s dump truck. He takes care of our store room and inventory. Naturally his Italian is perfect and he is a great help with technical questions. Vince doesn't consider any day started until we have our morning cappuccino and is often found at noon in our kitchen making pasta for us all. Vince has since moved back to Italy and we're on our on for espresso but he's still available for consultations!

Jessica and Michelle are both college students. Jessica has been with us since 2002 and Michele since 2003. They both know the products and our customers. Michelle speaks fluent Spanish and Jessica is year in France has made her fluent in French. We also have Karen and Bonnie who have been with us part-time for many years.

Tina joined us the end of 2006 and immediately became indispensable, we call her the Brenda clone (scarey thought). But she learned our 10,000+ codes and names immediately and will be managing the office, packing and shipping.

2006 was a big year for us with a move to a much larger facility. Our new Wholesale Showroom will house not only our beads, but our large inventory of Murano glass such as our Murano Chandeliers, Venetian Vases, Murano Glass Lighting. We import a line of finished Venetian Jewelry and Corporate Gifts which are on display. We work with Corporations for promotions and incentives for their employees, providing custom packaging for presentation.

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