One question I get very frequently is “how did you get into selling art and craft supplies?” I’m coming clean today, it’s because of my Mom. That’s her in the pic, looking fab with me and my Dad, sitting in front of a hooked rug back in 1966 (not sure who made the hooked rug). She was creative and crafty and always had a project going. I was surrounded by fabric and yarn as a child, wandered fabric stores and paged through pattern books, touched and examined stitches and swatches.

I can’t recall ever not knowing how to crochet, knit and sew (I also can’t remember what it was like to have such thin thighs, but oh well), its as if I popped out already knowing. Yes, that is me, posing with 4H projects: hat with matching granny square purse and a crocheted pom-pom poodle (the poodle is made over an empty toilet paper tube if I remember correctly).

Today is Mother’s Day: Happy Mother’s Day, Mom, and thank you!