I first started selling on Etsy when I discovered decoupage. I took my birthday money and bought a number of plain jewelry boxes, shot glasses, photo frames, gift boxes and other assorted items. Then I gathered my shoebox of Archie Digests I had collected over the years and painstakingly cut each character out from the pages and sorted them in piles. I went on a sort of frenzy. This is where I learned my techniques, and fixed any problems I had. I tried sealing all the boxes I had made with different products until I found the right one. All of those repetitive tasks were really practice It was a learning process.

Next I moved on to comics. As a comics lover, for a long time I couldn't force myself to take scissors to comics. But, after finding a few comic book stores with bargain bins I moved on and got working, My comic book store often sells comics for 25 cents - 1.00 because they are hugely overstocked, damaged, unreadable (unless you speak certain languages) or simply poorly received. The store has to choose between selling them for spare change or simply getting rid of them. I feel if potential garbage can go towards art, and be created into something new instead of destroyed, that's a great byproduct of what I do.

I also experimented fairly successfully with clothing design, jewelry, mixed media art, hand-painted housewares, custom accessories and much more.

I've been on a hiatus for a while, but the New Year will bring a new shop and a lot of new products. I have become older, wiser, and more experienced in my time off. I have learned a lot of new skills and techniques I hope to incorporate with both new and original items,