Other things about me

• I married my high school sweetheart in 1981.
• At the time I'd turned 21, I had been married 2 1/2 years and had 3-month and 2-year old sons.
• I have been a registered dietitian since 1990.
• By the time I turned 30, I'd been married 11 years and began working for my current employer.
• I plan to live to 100 and make the second half of my life infinitely more joyful and beautiful than the first half.
• By age 51, I lost both of my parents. 
• At 52, my only sister died.
• I have three brothers and each is a different kind of engineer - electrical, civil and mechanical.
• I eat a plant-based diet and only have meat, eggs or dairy about once per week.
• I love listening to recorded books.
• Coffee is my favorite beverage. I like having soy milk in my coffee.
• I love drinking sugar free tonic water with ice and sometimes a splash of fruit juice.
• I like sweet treats better than salty treats.

The most important things about me

I love fabric, fiber, textiles, ribbon, yarn, thread, floss, cloth, beads, sequins, buttons....

I learned the following crafts in (roughly) the following order (I bolded my current favorites) ...

embroidery

crochet

sewing

cross stitch

weaving

quilting

basketweaving

kumihimo braiding

knitting

felting

fiber dyeing

spinning

textile printing

silk painting

mixed media