I have always drawn pictures, doodled,
made crafts and painted with all types of media.
When we bought our first home I went crazy and painted
murals first in the kids rooms then the other rooms of the house.
The word got out in the neighborhood and pretty soon I was
getting paid to paint murals in all the local homes
& businesses. About 11 years ago when we adopted our first child I
stumbled upon scrapbooking; I was hooked! I needed a special kind
of baby book (a life book ) and I knew this was the way to do it! We
went on to adopt two more kids -as a mom of five, being creative
was not a priority but this was a good outlet for me at the time.
I love the idea of telling their stories – our stories but in a beautiful
form everyone can enjoy.

Since then I have had my work published in a variety of magazines, sold my work and have been honored to work with some really great manufacturers. I love being a part of this industry and being creative on a regular basis. I have been lucky enough to work with companies that understand creative souls and somehow my art kept finding it’s way back into my scrapbook pages and I realized how much I really missed it! Then the term mixed media” hit the creative scene and I was so excited because “mixed media” is what I have always done – it just didn't have a name! So I found my niche, I am a mixed media artist!

I have had many people ask if things that I created on my blog (RitaBarakat.com) were for sale or tell me "you should open an Etsy shop!" So now here it is!

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