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My artistic and craft abilities are Gifts from God and passed down from a long line of artists, art teachers, writers and craftsmen. I started using my artistic abilities while in Junior high school selling my first painting when in High school and was doing Shabby Chic long before it was popular. Over the years I found that my love of history, nature and agriculture was the subject and media choices for me even to utilizing various artifacts.
On furniture I prefer to use milk paints in historic colors. Other media choices are oil paints, pen and ink with a water color wash and am using some special enamels on many other items such as on glass. My crafts are what I refer to as heritage arts. Things a homemaker would have done while homesteading or the old “parlor” arts.
Among my accomplishments are: a Red Cross poster, various first place competitions for local Wildlife organizations such as Michigan Whitetails, Ducks Unlimited and Pheasants Forever , a magazine cover and restoring various historic homes.
I am the mother of three very talented daughters and nine equally talented grandchildren and besides my artwork and heritage crafts I love camping, fishing, hunting, cooking, reading, gardening, woodworking and homemaking.
My home /studio is nestled in a small acreage which has a trout stream running through it and a small woods full of shagbark hickory, blue spruce, maple and oak and fruit trees. It abounds with wildlife and native floral. I am an avid gardener raising the majority of my own herbs and flowers used for many of my crafts. All of these are heirloom to this region and with no chemicals.
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