In the beginning of December 2008, I joined Etsy, a renowned site for buying and selling crafts and artwork. I sell mainly necklaces at this time, although I am adding on hats, scarves, purses/bags and handspun yarn. Make sure to visit my new shop!href=http://www.etsy.com/shop.php?user_id=6146766

My handknit hats and scarves were featured in the annual holiday show and sale at the Evanston Art Center, near Chicago. I was able to make it up there and volunteer for one day. The art center is in several beautiful old buildings with great views of Lake Michigan.

I am currently working on a new body of artwork that relates to the trip I took to Scandinavia in June 2007.

My recent artwork was featured in Prior to Plastic show at the Springer Cultural Center in Champaign, Illinois. The reception was on December 7, 2007. The show was up until January 5, 2008. It was later reviewed in News Gazette

During my internship at the Textile Museum in Washington, D.C.,I wrote an article on a topic of my choice. I chose to write about the representative collection of Miao textiles and dress at the museum. These textiles are made by the Hill Tribes (an ethnic minority) in Southern China, Vietnam, Thailand and Laos. To see this article, visit http://www.textilesociety.org

Handweaver's Guild of America's annual Small Expressions show, juried by Wendy Weiss, is being held at the Indianapolis Art Center until September 2007. It was previously at the Robert Hillestad Gallery at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. My piece Hellnar was selected as one of 30 international entries. This is a felted piece that I created at my artist residency in Hafnarborg Cultural Center in Hafnarfjordur, Iceland, May 2005. More information about this piece can be viewed here at this website by clicking on the link Icelandic Voyage.

In June I returned to Iceland to visit the Harnarborg Cultural Center where I was a resident artist two years ago. After staying six days, I continued on to travel in Scandanavia.