Here is what I received from Jerilynn, one of the participants in this collaboration...
I WOULD LOVE IT IF SOME OR ALL OF YOU WOULD COME FORWARD TO GIVE US SOME PERSONAL BACKGROUND SO WE CAN MEET EACH OTHER HERE.
Thought I'd give you a little information about myself. I consider myself more of a crafter rather than an artist. BUT, I do have my moments and have made some fabulous items in classes with some awesome instructors. I used to make cute country crafts and set up booths at many a craft show. Doing that led me to doing tole painting and incorporating that into my shows which took me to making dolls. I did my majority of craft shows for the four years living in the Phoenix, AZ area and then moving to Albuquerque, NM and living and loving it there just under ten years. Then my husbands job brought us here to gorgeous and wonderful Oregon where I have not done one craft show since moving here but have been exposed to all kinds of fun and interesting media that they call art. So many techniques and supplies. My passion is paper. I love paper crafts. Scrapbooking is OK but I don't enjoy just making pages I do my scrapbooking in the form of hand made mini albums and journals. I love rubber stamping and card making and that is my big passion. I have been married for 23 years this August and I have two living daughters who are both fabulous young ladies. I can honestly say that my girls are as close to being perfect as they can get. I don't know what I did right but they are my greatest accomplishment. My oldest daughter will be 21 this year and she is an English teacher major just finishing her second year of college with a 4.0 GPA. She just found out this week that she won a scholarship that she didn't even know she was being considered for. My second daughter is turning 13 in June. She is my quiet laid back one. I have to say she is the laziest kid. She just doesn't understand the concept of "cleaning up her room". There is no more places to hide anything in her room anymore. Everything is spilling out from under the bed, the closet and all the drawers. Her one great accomplishment is that she just received her second degree black belt in Tai Kwon Do and I do love to brag about that because I am jealous that she can achieve such an accomplishment at her age.
Thanks again.
I look forward to meeting you in Portland at Art and Soul!!
Jeri Olson
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