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     1970′s -   Macrame, weaving, knitting, crocheting, patchworking, gimp, making troll furniture, doodling, etc.  I played around with all kinds of crafts.  Really took to weaving and bought my first loom at 16 with babysitting money.  Went crazy buying yarns and built up a giant stash.

    1980′s -  Painted stoneware pottery, refrigerator magnets, paper jewelry, beaded jewelry.   Stoneware pottery company became a very successful business with 4 stores, a wholesale division and a travelling craft show entourage.   Jewelry was next, so much easier to lug around from show to show!   Magnets were a fun production,  did shows and wholesaled them.  Learned that men are big magnet geeks!  By the end of the decade had a huge stash of beads, findings and rolls of magnet and laminate.

   1990′s -  Opened a craft store for Ace Hardware, as a pilot program…made the storyboards for all the crafts products, got to keep the leftovers, ran the store for 6 months and decided it was not for me.   Ended up with a room full of bits and pieces of just about every craft imaginable.   Then took a nice corporate job with a chain of record stores in 1993, and crafting got put on the back burner, the one way back, buried under everything else until 2007.

2007-present -  Lost the corporate job, started unearthing all the old crafty bits and pieces from years past, and re-kindled my love for fiber.  Fabrics also became an obsession, and the search at yard sales, estate sales, remnant shops, thrift stores began.   Bought a sewing machine and taught myself to sew.

Loving turning found fabrics into grocery bags and carry-all totes.   In the continued quest to stop using plastics, I added reusable sandwich baggies and produce bags to the line.  Down with plastic!  

  Starting cutting coupons to save money, and developed a GREAT coupon organizer that has been a real hit.   Nothing better than saving money with some style!

All my great yarn also is back in use – felted bowls, vases, hats.  Woven bags.  Scarves with remnants of all kinds of cool texure and color.   I love to go to Wool and Sheep Festivals and buy from Etsy artists – handspun and dyed yarns in the coolest colors and combos.

I now work with fabric by day in my home studio.  At night I hang with my husband and do fiber work in the living room while cozying up on the couch. 

And I love it.