Sunday Brunch Special: Amber Fay

1. Tell us a little bit about yourself and your indie business.
My name is Amber Fay and I work full-time for a group of general surgeons. My life has come to a point where I need to make a change, although my job is very rewarding, it is now time for me to pursue my jewelry making business.

I create and sell photo tile pendants. They make unique and different gifts in the sense that they are handmade and use a special transfer process to create each piece. I use low fire clay and each image in resized and cropped and transferred to black and white where it is then baked onto the clay tile. The image actually becomes a part of the tile.

2. Where are you located?
Thousand Oaks, CA

3. How did you come up with your business name?
I could not think of a name, so everyone kept telling me to just use my own name, that it flowed rather nicely.

4. Where do you sell your products? www.amberfay.etsy.com.

5. Do you belong to any local and/or web groups or affiliations?
I belong to many jewelry making forums on Yahoo Groups.

6. What inspires you?
The desire to cut back working full-time and work part-time so that I can have a child and be the best mom I can be.

7. When you’re not making things, what do you do?
I work full-time for a group of general surgeons and when I come home, I spend time with my husband and 17 year old Papillion Gizmoe, my 2 Chihuahuas Cricket and Zoe, my black cat Gus and my Russian tortoise Max.

8. Do you ever get stumped for ideas? How do you work through it?
All the time, I usually have to take a break and walk away and then re- compose my thoughts and creative energy.

Ok, now these two are mandatory and I have to ask (this being a diner, after all)

1. What is your favorite meal? Vegetarian tacos

2. Do you prefer tea or coffee? Coffee