Oct 10, 2010

Jewelry designer stays true to herselfBy Jennifer Ackerman-HaywoodBlog.MLive.com

Lisa Lehmann is the type of person with whom strangers strike up conversations.

On a recent trip to Starbucks, she held the door for a gent who asked: “Are you an artist?”

“It was the best thing ever,” said Lehmann, 41, of Plainfield Township, about the kind validation she received from a stranger.

The tattooed, home-schooling, married mother of four is definitely an artist.

On a recent visit to her home studio, I saw her in her element. Clad in a tank top and ripped jeans, Lehmann looked right at home at her workbench soldering jewelry with a torch.

Her Studio Jewel business is her family’s main source of income, but life as a work-at-home jewelry designer wasn’t part of her original plan.

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