Linda "Sorcie" Smith, the jewelry artist who is the creative force behind the jewelry on this site, has been working with beads and collecting new and old jewelry since her teenage years. Its only since September of 1999, however, that she turned her hand to more serious jewelry making in the form of wire jewelry design.

Originally self taught in her jewelry, Linda has found inspiration from many online jewelry professionals such as Preston Reuther and Eni Oken and studied under nationally known artists such as Connie Fox, Dale "Cougar" Armstrong, Arlene Hildebrand, Jack Berry and Robbie "Metallique" Ward, as well as Arlene Fisch, author of "Textile Techniques in Metal"

In 2003, she took first place in the Creative Wire Jewelry Winter Blues Swap, an international art jewelry challenge, with her original piece Blue Wails.

Linda was accepted in 2006 as an artist member of the Craftsmen's Guild of Pittsburgh . She has written jewelry tutorials for Step By Step Wire Jewelry, June 2005 issue and Dec. 2005 online tutorial as well as for Reuther's online web site.

Linda speaks at public events and teaches classes locally in the western Pennsylvania. Classes and private lessons on wire work and jewelry making are available at her Facets of Light Studio in Bridgewater, PA.

Selections of her work have been on display at Marshall Gallery, Greensboro NC.and Spa Uptown, Pittsburgh, PA. Currently, her jewelry collection can be seen at her studio in Bridgewater, PA.

She takes her jewelry to shows throughout the year, including Garrison Day in Beaver, A Fair in the Park in Mellon Park in Pittsburgh and Youngstown University's Summer Arts Festival, among other venues

Linda has a varied creative background which includes theatrical roles in high school, college and community theater, as well as co-direction and stage management. Her poetic, creative and journalistic writings have been published in the Beaver County Times, Valley Tribune and college literary magazine. While attending her alma mater, Penn State, she was a page editor and feature columnist for the Penn State Beaver Herald.

Online in chats and jewelry forums, Linda is known as Sorcie.