Needlecraft worker with 30+ years experience (three awards in needlepoint); former award winning custom costume designer; I make gifts from yarn and plastic canvas for charity auctions and fairs, and donate all proceeds; I make quilts (one award winner); Registered Native American artist,Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma; Mensa member 35 years; Mother of 2 sons, grandmother of 5; I was a hippy before there was such a thing, and I still am.