After deciding to become a professional actor in 2010, I worked a series of "day jobs" to make ends meet. I quickly became tired of working a dead-end job in order to support my other career and decided that life is too short (and far too important) to spend all of my energy on a job that I hate so that I can do something else that I love. Surely it's possible to feel good about everything I was doing in a day? I decided to quit my day job and jump in headfirst to a career that I knew I would love. I had been building my etsy store for a couple of years prior to that moment, and am so glad that I pushed myself into the deep end of this wild retail-meets-art world.

While I still have a LONG way to go, I am excited to wake up and get to work every day. I run this shop as well as a clothing boutique (www.katyascollection.com) where you can find some awesome clothing to go with your new handmade accessories. Monday has become my favorite day because I can't wait to get back to work. When you shop at RackFocus you buy something that has been made out of pure joy and positivity. I hope to bring happiness and positivity to each and every one of my customers. I will always go the extra mile to make my customer's experience as wonderful as possible. I welcome each new challenge and am so excited that I am now working a job that I love and that allows me to do the other work as an actor/director that I love.

My store's name, RackFocus, comes from a film term which refers to a hard focus shift from one subject to another. I chose the name because when I started my shop I was in film school. It speaks to my inspiration of my products, and the way that I hope you feel when you use them. I live every day feeling like my life is a motion picture, and I want every one of my customers to feel as glamourous, badass and epic as their favorite characters on the silver screen.

My knit goods have appeared in a couple of stage productions including "The Real Housewives of The North Pole" a holiday sketch show (which I also appeared in myself...) The most fantastic moment in my early craft-business career was when I was sitting in a cafe downtown and saw a girl at a nearby table wearing one of my knit berets. I felt super famous and was 100% hooked from that point.