Margot Potter a.k.a. The Impatient Crafter™ is a designer, author, mixed media artist, trash to treasure trover, freelance writer, consultant, public speaker, actor and vocalist and TV Host who creates innovative designs for manufacturers, books and magazines and teaches popular seminars and classes at craft and major jewelry industry events. She approaches everything with her signature sense of humor, boundless curiosity and copious amounts of joie de vivre because she feels that if it’s not fun, it’s simply not worth doing. She invites people to not only think outside of the box, but to tear it up, repurpose it into something fabulous and stand on it to reach for the stars. She’s equally comfortable at the writer’s desk, in the design studio, onstage or in front of the camera. She's been a professional performer for twenty four years and a crafty chick since before she was old enough to hold a Crayola®.

Margot has written five popular books on jewelry making and crafting including her best selling debut title The Impatient Beader and her two new runaway hits Beyond the Bead and Bead and Wire Jewelry Exposed (with co-authors Katie Hacker and Fernando DaSilva.) She's currently hard at work on book six. Her designs have appeared in magazines, contributor books, websites, in catalogs, on packaging, in print ads and across the webiverse. She's designed, consulted and blogged for a variety of manufacturers in the DIY Craft Industry including Beadalon, Create Your Style with CRYSTALLIZED™-Swarovski Elements, EK Success, Walnut Hollow, HHH Enterprises, Ranger Ink, Krylon, Janlynn and many more. Margot is a member of the Beadalon Design Team, fully certified in Ranger products, creates kid and teen craft projects for I Love to Create and is an ambassador for Create Your Style with CRYSTALLIZED-Swarovski Elements. She pens an internationally popular blog and creates blog contents for hire. She's a freelance writer and has written insightful articles for print and the web. Margot and her family create award winning how to videos for YouTube and Margot has appeared as a host and a guest on a variety of TV shows. You can see Margot on QVC regularly as the on-air expert for their private label marcasite brand.

Margot’s no nonsense approach to crafting demystifies the creative process for the Average Joe and Jane, inviting everyone to the creative table and convincing all of them that they too can “Create Without Filters™.”