Growing up, I took for granted how thoroughly art and craft saturated my daily life. Our home was a medley of creative influences. My father was a commercial photographer whose images were on many of the packages I saw in grocery stores. After he retired, he became an award-winning woodcarver. My mother always downplayed her expertise in crafts, but she was an incredible creator and one of my first teachers. Machine knitting was her main passion, but she also experimented with quilting, carving, embroidery and even teddy bear making. My brother studied art at university and became a skilled master carpenter. I believe my family gave me the gift of seeing possibility and the myriad ways a creative life can be lived.
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