In my first ‘real’ job, I received training in the North Tower of the World Trade Center to be a stockbroker. A folklore story unfolded when I was "broker of the day" and a man arrived with a stack of paper stock certificates mysteriously discovered under his deceased father's mattress.

Ten years after I quit a graduate program in western art history, the results of my zero waste creative work and practice were published in Cycle-Logical Art, Recycling Matters for Eco-Art, by Linda Weintraub.

I also helped Linda launch her book series by creating a zero-waste booth at the College Art Association Conference in 2006 and 2007.

My sheep logo was created over 25 years ago and born pixel-by-pixel using my hand to click each pixel into visibility, with a computer mouse, in ClarisWorks, an early innovative canvas for every person’s inner artist.

My preferred way to lose track of time is to fly my seven-foot, hot-pink kite with the sometimes sun, always wind and likely clouds at the Oregon Coast!

In 2016 a gentleman sat next to me on a private bus departing from Heidelberg, Germany. We had never met in-person before. Come to find out, he had carried Reclaimed Wool holiday ornaments in his Athens, GA shop for three years!

I gather lavender, collect 25 million-year-old clam fossils, hag stones, agates and jaspers by hand – a returnable, planet-friendly collection of beautiful, earth-made material – that cannot carry hot food from oven to table.

I have shipped tens of thousands of orders for my work. And each order I’ve ever sent, ships with a heartfelt thank you, and this invitation: ENJOY!