I am a hand-made jewelry designer and dance instructor in the San Francisco Bay Area. I never received any formal art instruction until I started experimenting with collage and box constructions in 1982. I stopped in 1986 and it was 18 years later that I returned to creating collages this time in altered books. I started creating hand-soldered pendants in 2007. I now enjoy the act of developing my creativity and expressing it through many mediums.