Awards / Honors
2025
- Yorktown Art at the River, Honorable Mention 3D
- Finalist, Jewelry Category, Chesapeake Spring Arts Festival
- Virginia Beach Art Center, 2nd Place for "This is My Brain. This is My Brain in the Studio" in "Imagine That" exhibit
- Virginia Beach Art Center, Honorable Mention for "They Were Violet" in Fabulous Forgeries Exhibit
2024
- Virginia Artists Juried Exhibition, Charles H. Taylor Visual Arts Center, Hampton, VA Honorable Mention for "Sometimes You Fly"
- Fall Stockley Gardens Art Show Award of Merit for "The Only Flowers I Can Grow"
- Virginia Beach Art Center 3rd Place for "It Started with a Riot" in Aware : With an Open Heart Exhibit
- d'Art Center Honorable Mention for "Construction Barrels" in ProximityNFK Exhibit
- Virginia Beach Art Center Honorable Mention for "Come Fly with Me" in Defying Gravity Exhibit
- Virginia Beach Art Center 1st Place for "Tenuous Balance" in Force of Nature Exhibit
- Virginia Beach Art Center Honorable Mention for "RBG" in Tiny But Mighty Exhibit
- Yorktown Juried Art Show Art at the River 2nd Place Jewelry
- Fiber Arts Fiesta 3rd Place Bead Embroidery - "Sometimes You Fly"
- Fiber Arts Fiesta Viewers' Choice Award - "Sometimes You Fly"
2023
- Poquoson Seafood Festival 1st Place Decorative Craft
- Virginia Beach Art Center Honorable Mention for "The Wood Between Worlds" in Shades of Gray Exhibit
- Hilton Art Walk & Busker Festival 1st in 3D
- Virginia Beach Art Center Award of Recognition for "Lily Bouquet" in Be Still Exhibit
- Yorktown Juried Show Art at the River 1st Place Jewelry
- Hampton Arts League Member's Open Award of Merit "Eight Arms to Hold You" in Hampton Arts League Members Open
2022
- 2022 Fire Mountain Gems Beading Contest Finalist for "Eight Arms to Hold You"
2021
- Fire Mountain Gems Beading Contest Wonderful Whimsy Award "Oh! The Places You'll Go!"
- Fire Mountain Gems Beading Contest Finalist "Pastel Swirls"
Prior to 2020
- 2014 Fire Mountain Gems Beading Contest Finalist "The Only Flowers I Can Grow"
- 2010 Fire Mountain Gems Beading Contest Finalist "Passion for Pastels"
- 2009 Featured Success Story on Fire Mountain Gems Website
- 2009 Fire Mountain Gems Beading Contest Finalist "The Reef"
- 2009 Fire Mountain Gems Beading Contest "The New Power Tie"
- 2008 Swarovski Create-Your-Style "Naturally Inspired" Semi-Finalist
- 2008 September Featured Bluegrass Etsy Street Team Member of the Week
- 2008 September Featured Artist on Beading Arts
- 2008 September Featured Artist at MyLovelyBeads.com
- 2008 Fire Mountain Gems Beading Contest Finalist "MerGirl"
- 2008 Fire Mountain Gems Beading Contest Finalist "Amber is the Color of Her Energy"
- 2008 Christmas Ornament on Thomas Clark Museum Tree
- 2008 Bead Dreams Contest Finalist "The Harvest"
- 2008 August 18-24 Beaders Showcase Featured Artist
- 2008 "The Mark of Great Art" Commissioned Artist
- 2007 Rings & Things "Your Designs Rock" Honorable Mention "The Queen's Green Collar"
- 2007 Fire Mountain Gems Beading Contest Finalist "Silver Snake"
- 2007 Fire Mountain Gems Beading Contest Finalist "The Queen's Green Collar"
- 2007 Christmas Ornament on First Lady of Kentucky's Tree
- 2006 Fire Mountain Gems Beading Contest Finalist "Lady in Red"
- 2006 Fire Mountain Gems Beading Contest Finalist "The Desert Meets the Sea"
