ABOUT US

Unable to paint or draw, but with a passion for color, I worked with yam in all its forms, from silk & gold embroideries for the church to the more mundane yam crafts. And then I discovered weaving, in a magazine article about the South. No one in the town we lived in New Jersey knew any weavers, so on an impulse we went down to No. Carolina to a Folk school I had read about. And there I learned to weave. After dinner a few of us insatiable weavers-to-be would go back to the studio, entertained usually by one or the other of the 2 Dartmouth College students who were there to study & record the local music & had built their own dulcimers & other instruments.

Some years later we left our lives as candymakers in the bustling environs of Atlantic City in South Jersey. We opted for the quiet ambiance of a small village in New Hampshire's White Mountains, and the old farmhouse we call home.

With the same enthusiasm we put into producing fine candies, beautifully decorated Easter eggs and serving the many customers who loved our products, we put into our current life of woollens and jewelry. We have been fortunate to acquire many new customers who like what we make.

In a 'hands on' experience with woollens'from the ground up', we bred sheep for a number of years. The breeding and caring for sheep began when we acquired our first two. On a bitterly cold night in January, hearing a noise in the barn, we went out to check on the sheep and were astounded to find a black lamb in the stall.

My interest in beads, which had begun some years before, paralleled my fondness for sheep and woollens. I studied to learn how beads were made, then more of their ancestry--where and when they were made--as my interest in the old ones grew.

My necklaces reflect my appreciation of these wonderful beads, as do the woollens I weave from the beautiful fleeces I spin.