Hi y'all! I'm Maggie, the maker behind Sugar Creek Silver Co. 

I've been silversmithing since March 2025, but I can trace my passion for creating art inspired by the outdoors back to when I was a little girl growing up in the Ozarks. My early sketchbooks were filled with giant-to-me oak trees and moody cumulonimbus clouds. A lot of my childhood was spent outside with family and friends, but mostly with my sister. We ran around in the woods, built forts, and splashed through nearby creeks, including our favorite and my company's namesake, Sugar Creek. 

I studied art (and then environmental science) at Northwest Arkansas Community College before transferring to Black Hills State University to study outdoor education. Somehow I struck the lottery and got to live on a little horse farm right by the university with my best friends. They taught this southerner how to swing dance and bake banana bread, how to pray…and how healing a little Spearfish Canyon drive can be.. :) I harvested my very first deer on the farm with my bow, and spent many quiet mornings telling the horses all my secrets. Those years will always have such a special place in my heart. In the sacred Black Hills of South Dakota, I found myself falling in love with the outdoors even deeper than I ever had.

These days, I run an outdoor program for kids at a local recreation center (yes, now I get paid to splash through creeks!) and am a part-time "lumberjack" with my best buddy Dave (and yes, I get to run a chainsaw – how lucky am I?). When I'm not running around the hills, chopping wood, or going for hikes with my kids, I'm usually hunting, fishing, or, of course, silversmithing! 

Years ago, I got my first turquoise ring – a birthday surprise from my friends. It made me wonder if I could create something like that: wearable art that brought people the same joy I felt putting it on each day. I was never much of a jewelry girl, ironically enough, but this suited me so well I couldn’t take it off. So, years later after thinking about it off and on- I found myself researching, writing lists of things I needed, saving to buy my materials,  practicing, and after many hours of trial and error, eventually creating pieces of my own. 

Today, as always, I take my inspiration from the natural world around me, transforming each piece into beautiful, durable jewelry that can be worn daily and last for generations. 

I am grateful to be able to pursue this little hobby of mine and share it with you!