I started making things at a young age. Before I was in grade school, I had stitched pants for my Barbie doll. Around six years old, I created a sketchbook of dress designs for my father’s clothing company. As a teen, I made a miniature version of my bedroom out of balsa wood, painting the furniture with tiny makeup brushes and using toothpicks for gluing the pieces together. Around the same time, I had a hand-painted T-shirt business in my basement. In fact, I can’t remember a time when I was not creating something.
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