From the days of her youth, creativity was present; Anne-Marie Chagnon drew, wrote poems, sculpted, played of a musical instrument. 

Her parents encouraged her, her two sisters and brother to use and give free rein to their imagination, as much in mechanical ways as with freedom of expression.

Jewellery arrived in her life from the moment when, as a young girl, she wanted to wear some. In Grade 5 of elementary school, she was wearing earrings she had welded herself! 