My artistic practice has included cross-stitch (and yarn bombing), felting, and embroidery on fabric and, increasingly, on paper. I continue to find my imagination sparked by colors, textures, and shapes in found materials including cards, antique prints, and photographs. Minor additions--and sometimes major ones--can change the feeling of an object or bring out its inherent qualities more fully.

This year, I find myself using more embellishments, from sentimental to whimsical. I continue to focus on dimensionality, as in the 3-D embroidery of a mushroom sheltering a mouse on an original watercolor background. In other pieces, I combine text with imagery, as in Unicorn and my affirmations series. My work engages in a dialogue with objects (and sometimes their original creators) with the aim of making something that brings new, or renewed, pleasure to viewers.