I have been creating for as long as I can remember.  I started my creative career in textiles.  I have always had an interest in jewelry making.   I remember slicing and polishing peach pits as a teen and making earrings.  My first enameled piece was actually in the 7th grade.  I still have the heart pendent in speckled blue.  Many Many years later I re-discovered the field again and fell in love.  I love the combination of metalwork and color.  Plus within the enameling umbrella there are so many techniques to learn.  I thank Joan Schlaifer for giving me those first basic lessons as an adult and Linda Darty for her book that I have read and re-read so many times it is loosing the ink on the pages.  Her skill as a metal smith and an emamelist is something I aspire too.

I am a wife to one and a mother to 3.  We all live with our 2 dogs and 2 desert tortoises in Northern Nevada just 20 minutes from Lake Tahoe, one of the most beautiful places on earth.

Education
BS Textiles from Northern Michigan University