About

I live in a little town called Kernersville, NC. In this “small world” I draw, paint, knit, and crochet in and around a very full life as wife and mother of 3. The lines between creative flights of fancy and day-to-day living are blurry and jumbled. I’ve tried to make life segmented into “hours for creating” (like sketching and designing) and “hours for daily stuff” (like kid’s homework, laundry, and soccer games). But alas, it is not possible. So I move through life thus:

See husband off to work, dive into current charcoal portrait commission, stop and throw in a load of laundry, return by way of picking up what kids left behind on their way out the door to school, step back from commission to view it from a distance, happen to see the latest yarn design I have going and realize what it needs, stop to either work on this or jot down the idea, bring commission to a place where it needs to simmer, have some lunch, work on typing up a pattern, blogging, or photographing, draw in my sketchbook a bit, reexamine the portrait, first kid comes home from school, while knitting we chat about the day, he goes outside to play or up to do homework, I realize I missed something on that pattern I wrote up this morning, next kid comes home from school, help with homework, crochet while she works and we chat about her day, capture her unbelievable cuteness in a sketch and splash on some watercolor, realize I’ve got to make dinner soon, third child comes home from school, listen and catch up with her and where she is off to next, ask this oldest child for opinion and insight on portrait…(she has a wonderful eye), listen to youngest practice piano while I concoct something for dinner, grab sketchbook or yarn to take to soccer practice, swimming, or whatever!, read and tuck in for littlest, catch up on my husband’s day, sit at my drawing table to just doodle, can’t keep eyes open, so off to bed.

Other days, I’m up and out the door to teach art at Redeemer School or at Iggy’s Art Supply, or teach crochet and knitting at Knit One Smock Too…I love teaching, getting out with others who love to stretch their creative wings. What I’m learning as I teach, create, live life…is that ALL of life is artful! I’m drawn to it, art & life, they cannot be separated into compartments…they are inextricably knitted together, all of their various colors oozling together to make a beautiful whole!