Kirsten Rasmussen, one of the artists coming to the Jordan Art Festival this weekend, turns a tongue-ring studs into a rings.

Maureen Carlson, Maureen Carlson’s Center for the Creative Arts, bought one. The hand-blown glass bead that adorns the ring, threaded onto the barbell, is interchangeable with any number of decorative beads that the owner might want to wear on her finger.

“If they bought 10 beads from me,” Rasmussen said, “they could switch them.

Rasmussen, 32, of Coon Rapids prides herself in not mass producing her artwork.

“That’s part of where my name comes from, you know,” Rasmussen said of her business, Unique In All The World Jewelry.

She is a teacher in the Coon Rapids school district, but on the side, she sells fused glass pendants, beads, and jewelry made out of or embedded with precious metal clay – all of which she learned at Carlson’s business along Water Street.

Something you won’t find anywhere else is Rasmussen’s custom-made portrait beads. She fuses photographs onto glass, and she will be taking orders for such work this weekend.

“Yeah, they’re higher-end pieces, but you’re never going to see the same thing. I won’t ever make the same thing twice,” Rasmussen said.

Hoping to get her new home studio going in the next month, she is doing only a few art shows this year.