My Resume

So you may be wondering about my qualifications. What have I done before and what are my plans for the future? I have taken a couple pictures of examples of my work.

1998-1999 During my Senior year at Rancho Bernardo Highschool I was in Advanced Women's Ensemble, Advanced Art and Advance Placement English. To be honest, I did not realize my full potential in any of these subjects in High School, but my professors succeeded in stirring my desire to do so.

(The Sunflowers and the Girl are scratchboards that I made in Highschool--I was lucky to get them back!)

1999-2001 While attending Palomar College and focusing on my GED I enjoyed taking Critical writing classes and a Chambersingers course. I also started working on my first big quilting project for my brother and his new wife for a Christmas present. It took me a while to finish since I was a novice. I learned most of my sewing skills from my mother and my friend, but I never took a formal class so it was all by trial and error.

2001-2006 I sang and took a turn directing in my local church choir. Under the guidance of my former roommate and close friend who has a degree in sewing design, I created renaissance costumes for my husband and I to wear to the festivals and for halloween. I also created a quilt of my own design for my first child. The curtains inspired the design. I made the pillows this year to match. I even got the courage to alter a dress pattern for a pregnant friend who would be in a wedding party. (I wish I had a picture of that one she looked gorgeous!) I also got daring enough to design a dress using another dress as my pattern. (Not as easy as using a paper pattern, but possible.)

At this time in my life I was working full time from home as an Apartment Manager. So I did all these things in my spare time (to take my mind off of work since I lived there). My writing skills were used to create newsletters for the apartments and doing a lot of paperwork. I did finish my AA degree in Language Arts by the time my son was 3.

(I will not take credit for the child costume since we bought that at DisneyLand)

2007-2009 We bought a house and started working on it. I have some pictures of what I did--finishing furniture and redesigning a kitchen. Also, since I quit working when I moved I got pregnant (again) and worked on living on a single income. Saving money is definitely more challenging than earning it. My motivation to create rather than spend has increased tenfold, hence this blog. In upcoming posts I plan to show some of the things I have created in the past couple years and then I will be more thoughtful about photo documenting future creations for blogging. Expect to see some clothes I have made for myself, some furniture, and maybe I will even learn how to upload music for your listening pleasure. An ultimate goal of mine for this blog is to create traffic through prize drawings. Since the scratchboards are a more unique talent that I have developed I plan to create some for giving away. I may even take suggestions for subjects to turn into a scratchboard.