I was born into a creative, artistic family. My parents were both talented at drawing and photography. My mother was an English teacher and did poetry and photography for fun an my father was a talented mathematician and cartoonist. Ever since I could remember, I had the gift of visual art expression, especially drawing with pencil, pen, pastel, and charcoal. I graduated from college with a bachelor of arts in 1997 and ever since then, I've been art-making and traveling. I also enjoy sewing, scuba diving, snorkeling, gardening, tropical plants, working on my web site, movies, making short video clips from my vacation footage, digital imaging, and writing poetry. Considering how much my sweetie and I love to travel overseas, I suspect I'll have quite a collection of these books in another few years! A close friend of mine introduced me to Blurb a few months ago and I finally got my act together and started making Blurb books. What fun! Thanks for checking out my profile!