I've been sewing pretty much continuously since I was about 10, when my mom first taught me to use the machine! Since then I've dabbled in lots of other areas...crochet, painting, ceramics, beading, decoupage, furniture refinishing, commercial sign painting, papier mache, soapmaking, basically whatever strikes my fancy at the time...but it always comes back to sewing.

Back in the 80s I did the craft show thing with my friend Sue; we did really well, almost so well we couldn't keep up. We did shows, private house parties, annual open houses at both her house and mine, and dabbled in wholesale. After many years, though, shows got harder and harder to find, and craft shows in general seemed to fall out of popularity, at least where we live, so both of us ended up getting "real jobs".

I never lost my drive to create, though. Eventually when my son was grown and I opened a tailoring shop in 2008, I gradually got back into the creative mode, selling what few things I had time to make in between the hems and zippers in my little shop. I had already opened my Etsy shop, but in the reality there were not enough hours in the day to make both things work so I needed to focus on my tailoring business to make ends meet. But that doesn't satisfy my need for creativity! So for my own sanity, I am now focusing on what makes me happiest and that is crafting.

In my years of tailoring and mending factory-made clothing, I realized that a lot of it is not made to last. Good news for the tailor, not so good for the consumer. So what I like to do is offer people things that are made with care, things that are meant to be used for a long time.

I hope you'll enjoy browsing through my shop, and please feel free to ask me anything you'd like to know about my work! Thanks for visiting!