Growing up in a rural area outside of Buffalo, NY, my two favorite things were cooking & sewing. I came from a "foodie family" but I chose to take my career path towards sewing. I got my BS in apparel & textiles at Buffalo State College & then got an AS at the Fashion Institute of Technology in NYC. I graduated in 1986.
I had an enjoyable twenty year run in the textile industry. I married my husband Nick in 1990 and we relocated to Charlotte, NC in 1997 with my then employer Springs Industries. I had my first child, Cody, in November 1998. My mother died from cancer in June, 2001. My second, Kyle, was born six months later. Then my father died from a heart attack in February 2002. By then, I was not so in love with textiles anymore or anything else, for that matter.
