Betty & Fred Vance, "BMarie," are a husband and wife team who have been professional craft persons for more than 40 years.

"Handcrafted designer silver jewelry is our world. Every piece is done by one or both of us. Each piece is unique. Usually one of us will start with a concept and inevitably the other will get in the middle and change things. This insane way of working allows us to come to ideas that neither of us would have had on our own.

Our learning never ends. We learn every day from what we see in nature, from where our travels take us, from sticks and stones we hold in our hands, from early morning sunlight flickering through the leaves in trees behind our studio. This is where ideas are born. Our work is our entire life. We live it, we breathe it. With each piece we have one goal: to make it better than the last. Our best piece is always the next one that will have perfect balance of color, form and shape and that important mystique.

Our designs and bright colors are influenced by the costumes and personal adornment we've seen in our travels around the world, as well as the stark vivid colors of the land in our own southwest.Our work is 'High Style.' Our customer is the woman with presence, panache, and pizzazz."