I was always the little girl with skinned knees. I was the girl in the middle of the boys competing to be the best tadpole catcher in the ditch out back. Sure. I played with dolls once in a while, but I secretly didn't LIKE being girly. I hated pink. I loved snakes. I played tonka trucks with the neighbor boy. I played baseball with the boys. I caught grasshoppers barehanded. I NEVER screamed at spiders. I could catch lizards AND keep their tails in tact. I had rats for pets. At every chance I had, I tried to prove just how UNgirly I was. If you had told that little girl back then that when she was grown up, she would LIKE pink, and lace, and sparkles and DOLLS. Well. She would NEVER have believed you.

I've been creating since I was a child, blessed with parents who fed my creativity and imagination as often as I asked them to. As a little girl, I peddled my drawings to my neighbors. My little sister put up with many watercolor face paintings. As a teenager, I tortured my friends by asking them to ride the stick horses I made myself from scratch. My imagination was my best friend, and thankfully, I never forgot how to use it.

In 2006, I allowed myself to lay claim to the titles ARTIST. PHOTOGRAPHER. DOLL MAKER. I create using items found in my thrift store shopping trips. My art is one of a kind. I create whatever I am inspired to in the spaces of time I can fit into my day. My art pieces generally have imperfections in them that I consider to add to their unique qualities, and charm. I love things rusty, crusty, and distressed!! It's my goal that when you look at my art, you see the reflection of my love of all things vintage and well loved.
In 2009, encouraged by my teacher, doll maker Jane DeRosier, I submitted my dolls to be published in a magazine. I was not only published, I was asked to be a featured artist!! Since that time, I have had the privilege of being published in several Stampington Publications, sisters Linda Woods and Karen Dinino's Meeting in the Ladies Room, and am a contributing artist in Seth Apter’s newest Mixed Media book, “The Mixed-Media Artist: Art Tips, Tricks, Secrets and Dreams from Over 40 Amazing Artists”. I own the art journaling prompt blog, A Year in the Life of an Art Journal and the photography inspired, Monday Mugshots. I love breaking rules, and is married to a cop. (is that like a double negative?) When I'm not obsessively refreshing my Facebook page, I like to create things. When I'm not creating things, I'm neglecting my housework, spending time with my family by the River in the summer, playing horseshoes with the kin folk, cheering too loudly and possibly cursing at my kid’s games, and milking my goats. Not necessarily in that order, except for the neglecting house work part.