I'm a mom of one five year old boy, a Penn State graduate (English and Japanese double major), a Pagan, and an artisan. I've got a husband,two cats, and a fiesty betta, in addition to my son.

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My Work:

Someone, I can't recall who, gave me a pyrography pen when I was still in middle school. It lay, abandoned, in some box, in some closet, forgotten, for years. Until one fateful day in my senior year of college, bored and stressed and needing a break from an endless bout of translating, I found the pen, and plugged it in.

Delightful! The smell of the wood as it burned! Enchanting! The delicate wisp of smoke! Sensual! The feel of the tip gliding across the smooth grain! Intoxicating! The thrill of, daintily, craftily, artistically, Setting Stuff On Fire!

I take the most delight in utterly ignoring the conventions of pyrography, and using woodburning to render artwork that should, by all rights, be executed in a completely different medium. Because, really, how many plaques of realistically rendered eagle heads and insipid wildflowers can one have?

As for mehandi--the Indian art of henna application, on which many of my designs are based--that stems from my passionate infatuation with all things exotic, decadent, and lavishly ornate. India, ancient Persia, the Victorian Fantasy of the Middle East, and all of their sensual pleasures, delight me. Henna, and the art of its application, are, to me, a most enjoyable expression of this aesthetic.
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"I would feel more optimistic about a bright future for man if he spent less time proving that he can outwit Nature and more time tasting her sweetness and respecting her seniority."
--E. B. White (1899 - 1985)


"You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, 'I have lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.' You must do the thing you think you cannot do."
--Eleanor Roosevelt