About Chantelle

Chantelle Schriver is the face behind 'Down To The Wire', and the creator of the jewelry you see on this website. She started creating jewelry around April 2009, and shortly thereafter became enamored with the hobby.

Her journey in jewelry-making began while she was on her honeymoon with her husband in September of 2008. While browsing through a shop in Prince Edward Island, Chantelle saw some polished semi-precious stones for sale and made up her mind then and there to get some stones and start creating beautiful pieces. Months before, she had been inspired by other artists who created unique wire-wrapped gemstone pendants while browsing deviantart, and vowed to create wonderful pieces like them.

After starting out with simpler designs with chain and glass beads, Chantelle ventured into wire and soon afterwards had created some of her first wire-wrapped rings. After several weeks of creating rings and gaining a lot of interest she decided to try to make a pendant out of one of the stones bought on her honeymoon. After a lot of fiddling and patience-trying, she had created her first pendant and loved it so much that she immediatly began to make more and more. Her unique pendants and rings have quickly become her signature pieces.

Chantelle loves challenging herself in creative ways and is always looking for a new design, gems, beads and wire to work with. She currently has been drawing a lot of inspiration from other incredible artists on Deviantart, and aspires to be able to create such magnificient and unusual designs and pieces as they do.

Chantelle lives with her husband Craig, their two cats Jasmine (Jazzy) and Kiwi, and several tropical fish tanks. Both she and her husband are animators by day, and she loves to paint, draw, read and listen to music during her free time.