About me
I’m Lisencka, and my husband Eric and I have been living in Amsterdam for many years. For decades, I’ve been designing and crafting completely original jewelry, my creative passion. Years ago we emigrated to Italy where we converted a large farmhouse into 5 apartments and rent it out for vacations. I am also an animal lover so we have several pets. My love for animals runs so deep that we often adopt older, sick, abused, or disabled animals;
I’ve had my creativity and passion for miniature painting for many years and I am fortunate to have been able to turn it into my job from my own studio.
I get the most satisfaction from painting personal charm beads. I paint pets or other personal pictures I get from my customers. Additionaly, I also make charm beads with very small shells in them or even ashes from a loved one. How beautiful to carry that with you!
The charm bead fits around a Pandora bracelet, but I also make bracelets from silk if desired. In addition to charm beads, I can also express my creativity in designing and making other jewelry.
Mission
We design and create extraordinary, hand-painted charm beads and jewelry, offering a unique service to our customers while supporting charities.
Vision
An art jewelry company that works with high-quality materials and creates unique charm beads and jewelry.
Core goals
– Animal welfare (creating awareness)
– Offering a unique service
– Ethics
– Nature conservation
– Protection of endangered species
The origin of Handmade Charmbeads
When the corona pandemic started in 2020 we hardly received any guests in our agriturismo. From then on I started to focus on making and selling miniature paintings and self-designed jewelry. I created a website on Etsy and set up a very nice, small studio where I have been working daily since then and can fully express my creativity.
I did dozens of tests with charm beads and soon managed to incorporate small shells (found on the beach at Marotta, an hour from here), hair or ashes of a loved one into the beads. I love to experiment. I also made all kinds of Italian items and there was a lot of interest in that too.
Very quickly I was getting requests from customers for making custom charm beads and miniature paintings. I painted these from a photo I was sent of a dog and a cat. I started working with this and the reactions of those first customers were so positive that I started doing it more often. I am now constantly receiving requests from a wide variety of personal memories that people want incorporated into a bead.
I love being able to create unique and lasting memories for my clients. That is where I get the satisfaction. Due to the growing demand, I started specializing more and more in personalized charm beads. I make these all by myself: from casting them in indestructible, crystal-clear epoxy resin to painting them and finishing them with special paint. The beads feel light, are completely scratch-resistant due to the extra layer over the painting, and are indistinguishable from glass.