That's me! Me . . . me . . . me. Me also. And sometimes I go months without looking!

I love to watch movies with my husband, learn new things, create, be with my kids, create some more, organize, travel, create some more, organize some more, write,  meet new people, dance, play with my pets, create some more and sell the treasures I find.

As a child I played in the loft of my mother's ceramic and flower shop, in the alley of my grandparent’s home and running free with the neighborhood kids in Everett and Marysville Washington. Life was both wonderful and hard, as my parents divorced when I was three. My mom was always making clothes for my dolls and me, and all sorts of other magical things like miniature doll houses decorated with beautiful  scraps of wallpaper and a grand train track with dozens of those precious little fluffy trees that I always marveled at.

During my early years my mom married my (step)dad and we moved to Riverside California, Dayton Ohio, and then Spokane Washington.

I went to high school in Spokane Washington, where, in my senior year, while driving my purple 1960 convertible Fiat 1200, I discovered the thrill of thrifting. I began buying anything cheap, but always stunning and classy. I wore the most glamorous long black coat from the 1940's that made me feel elegant where ever I went.

At 21 I served a mission for the LDS church in Italy. I returned to the US with a greater appreciation for art and fashion (and I could speak okay Italian). While the American teenagers were wearing jeans and T-shirts, the Italian kids wore dress pants and tucked in button down shirts as they on zoomed off past castles and crumbling stadiums in their Vespas.  

At 25 I met my husband, and after dating for one and a half years we were married in Bellevue Washington. Within another year and a half we had our first daughter, Katrina. About a year and a half after that, came our son Vance, and about a year and a half after that, our son Vaughn. Finally, almost 6 years later we had another daughter, Elana.

After living in the Seattle area for nearly 25 years of our marriage, my husband was transferred to Albuquerque New Mexico, and then to Columbus Ohio. We now live in Hilliard, a suburb of Columbus. We hope to return to Seattle in a few years, maybe sooner, if my online business makes that possible.

We now have two granddaughters, Amelia and Eloise. We love them more than anything else in the world. 

Life is good and we look forward to some traveling in our future, but selling beautiful, used things for people to use and appreciate all over again will always be a the thing I get up for in the mornings!