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| Every time I read someone's "About the Artist" page I have to chuckle a little for a number of reasons. First, I'm not going to talk about me like I didn't write this or I'm somebody else. None of that "the artist" this or that - it's just me. Which probably tells you something right there. I'm a bit of a noncomformist. Second, I am apparently what various show promoters and show jury members call a "functional artist". Now, this really makes me laugh because I consider myself to be somewhat crafty, certainly not an artist, and most days I'm barely "functional", haha. Somehow I manage to put together some really cool lamps, if I do say so myself.
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| I inherited my craftiness from my mother. She is an accomplished seamstress and tought me everything I know about sewing. Many years ago, in another life, I designed and constructed all my own clothes, curtains, bedspreads, pillows, you name it. Then life got in the way and I wasn't crafty again until just a few years ago when the youngest of my three kids was old enough to have his own life. About that same time, my oldest daughter joined the Air Force. That would be right around the year 2001. Well, I had to keep myself occupied so as not to think about where she was or what she was doing. My youngest daughter graduated from high school two years later and decided to go to college and then become a cop. No stress there. I wonder what it's like to have kids who don't choose occupations that can get them killed? Well, my son, for now, is still in high school, so I'm hoping he picks some safe job like cobra hypnotizer or alligator wrestler. My poor husband just gets up, goes to work shaking his head, and comes home from work shaking his head. It's all in how you cope, I guess.
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| I wish I could tell you how the idea for these lamps came about. I have no idea. What I can tell you is that it was not some great stroke of genius. There was no epiphany or revelation. I was fooling around with a small amount of resin, attempting to make candleholders for Christmas presents. (They came out pretty good, by the way.) Over the next two years, I experimented with various types of resin and combinations of resin until I came up with what I have today. Now a large portion of my basement has been converted to a workshop, complete with a dehumidifier, large, perfectly level work surfaces, warming lights for curing the resin faster, a drill press, exhaust fans, and my favorite - my trusty little respirator mask to keep me from breathing in all those nasty fumes. Life is good down in "the pit."
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| So that's what makes me tick in a not so small nutshell. My daughter's, Kira and Keelan, my son, Eamon, and my husband, Joe, make it possible to hole myself up down in "the pit" to do what I love. Yes, life is good. And the money's not bad, either.
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