Tamara Honaman has been making jewelry for over 15 years, working in a variety of media, including metal clay, wire, sheet metal, polymer clay, glass and beads. She is a certified Senior Art Clay and PMC Instructor, and teaches a wide range of jewelry-making techniques at national and international trade shows, as well as on national television programs. You can catch Tamara’s jewelry-making segments on the public television series “Beads, Baubles & Jewels”, the DIY program “Jewelry Making”, in videos available on the Fire Mountain Gems and Beads® website, as well as in “Secrets to Art Clay Success”, a DVD devoted to projects using Art Clay. She creates and writes jewelry-making projects for books and international and national magazines.

Tamara is the founding editor of Step by Step Beads and Step by Step Wire. She currently works for Fire Mountain Gems and Beads as a resident expert jewelry designer – creating and authoring educational content for print, video and the Fire Mountain Gems and Beads website.

Tamara was born and raised in New Jersey and now lives in Collegeville, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania with her husband of 18 years and their two sons