Born in Tampa, raised in Miami, married in Homestea...... I'm a Florida native, for sure. My crafting urges came to me early; when I was about 7, spending the summer with my grandmother in Tampa, she bought me the tools for early crafting..... scissors, paper, paste, and watercolors and crayons. Together we safed shoe boxes and other cardboard. She gave me thread and a needle and taught me to use them. Then she set me up in the breakfast room, where I could work as long as I wanted to.
Ultimately, I am still working with those materials and more. I enjoy "making" as much as I did then.
I put fabric on the back of clear glass plates. The secret is in the choice of fabric and the purity of the plates. I keep discovering new things to do with it, new fabric designs more beautiful than any I've ever had before, and people who love to own my plates. The feeling of making things is like wind in your head; it starts as a balmy little breeze, and grows as you put a plan on paper, go to your cabinets or boxes and select your materials, and it circles within your head and your heart as you see the magic form of the thing you wanted to create taking shape. Sometimes you stall out, and stop. But most of the time you reach the success that is like a hurricane within your soul. And then you hold onto yourself and say, "That's great!"
That's who I am.
