My Etsy Shop Story: I started crafting & creating at a very young age. All through dental hygiene school and as I was earning my degrees in College, I still had a huge passion for creating and designing pieces of Art. I would create anything from handcrafted jewelry, to bows & flowers, to woodworking & signs, to eventually painting on canvas. I decided to open up my shop on Etsy to sell jewelry, when I was pregnant with our 3rd child, having a lot of down time on my hands. While kids were in school and the new baby was napping I would create-away; making all kinds of things from fashionable jewelry, to baby bows & headbands. One Year after my most recent child was born, as I was very busy working full time and decorating for a Women's Conference, along with several other very stressful events at the time, I was diagnosed with Bells Palsy. The disease is usually a temporary paralysis of half of your face, caused from a facial nerve being swollen and pinched or damaged. It hit me out of the blue, and before having this actual disease happen to me, To ME, I had never heard of it. So not only did I become an expert from all the researching I did on this topic, but I also spent a lot of time at home recovering and trying to de-stress, and thus giving me Plenty of Time to CREATE! So along with everything else I have more recently enjoyed creating works of art, & Painting on Canvas. It is in those quiet hours of the night now, when I am painting away, that I can forget all of my stresses and all the daily problems, and get lost in my creations, in my paintings. CREATING Is Healing!!!