I am a 57 year old wife, mother of two grown sons and grandmother of one
positively scrumptious grandson. I am happily living with my darling
husband, two dogs and one cat in the beautiful mountains of Western North
Carolina.
I have moved a lot in my life living nearly half of it outside of the United
States in Europe and the Middle East. In the process, I have had
more than a few professional incarnations. I have been a midwife with
a home-birth practice, classroom teacher, computer programmer, secretary,
bookkeeper, waitress and even a car sales person. I have always loved
sewing and managed to use my skills in that area to put a little money in my
pocket since I was seven and started making doll clothes for friends in the
neighborhood.
A little over nine years ago, a friend drug me to my first bear show to get
my mind off a health crisis in the life of my younger son, Seth. I
designed my first bear, Mickey with his lady bug, took him to a show and the
rest, as they say, is history. Now I am hooked on bears and happily
designing and making the furry critters as fast as my little fingers can
stitch them up.
In the last nine summers, my bears have appeared on the Rosie O'Donnell Show
and found display space in five different retail stores in North Carolina,
Virginia and Georgia as well as from my web site and at shows from
Smithtown, New York to Austin, Texas. A grown woman shouldn't be
allowed to have such a good time in public but I did and I do!
