Always Making Something
I'm a dreamer who enjoys making treasures out of antique and vintage items. I delight in going to antique stores, to be surrounded by old things collected under one roof is like taking a trip back in time. I often wonder what stories my little treasure would weave if they could talk.
I grew up on a farm in the Appalachian mountains of Virginia. I lived near my grandparents and was often a shadow to my grandma. My grandmother was the local seamstress for the community. She would drive to North Carolina to buy bolts of fabric from the mill outlet and stock them in her small sewing room. She could knit, crochet, and sew. We raised chickens, cows, made our own butter and cheese. I was always involved in some type of creative process. One of my fondest memories is running my fingers through my grandmothers button tin, I have always loved buttons! She passed down to me the love for creating and making things.
After college I worked several years as a sales representative for Alechia Jewelry and during that time I regularly traveled to Manhattan, New York City. Fashion was always something that I enjoyed. I owned and operated Chantilly, a boutique and bridal shop, from 1991-1998. I helped clients with pageants, weddings, designed and custom altered dresses. As life got busy with children I closed my shop and focused my need to create and design on other things in life: making costumes for school, painting and repainting each and every room in the house(it gets boring-got to change the color and theme), rearranging the furniture on a regular basis(much to my husband's chagrin), and gardening-I love gardening almost as much as I love making jewelry. Still, I regularly would dabble in making clothing and jewelry.
Fast forward to 2007 when a friend suggest I try selling some of my creations on Etsy and voila, Timeless Trinkets was born! Since then the rooms in the house have stayed the same color and the furniture in it's place. I now have an outlet for my excessive creativity other than the house. However, the garden and our yard is a different story.
I am always making or growing something!
