Laura Brubaker grew up in the hills of Brown County, Indiana where she was inspired from an early age by the nature she was surrounded in.  As the daughter of a blacksmith the sound of hammers hitting metal has always been a great comfort and so it was only natural that she would eventually find her passion as a metalsmith herself.  From a very young age Laura was interested in jewelry, that interest was fostered by her aunt who is a silversmith and who gave Laura a set of jewelry making tools for christmas when she was eleven, and at the ripe age of fourteen she founded Laura Brubaker Designs.  She was the youngest member of the Brown County Craft Gallery while she was still in high school and went on to study Jewelry Design and Metalsmithing at Indiana University under Randy Long and Nicole Jacquard.  She loves to travel the world and has lived in Cairo, Egypt while studying Egyptology at the American University in Cairo where she met her husband (the lapis stone in the ring pictured above on the right was bought on their first date in Cairo).  Her goal is to visit as many places as she can in her life and she loves to make jewelry using trinkets she has picked up on her travels or inspired by the places she has visited.  All of the jewelry she makes is hand fabricated from wire or sheet metal from start to finish using many tools that belonged to her late grandfather.