I grew up on a farm in the Hudson valley, and couldn™t wait to leave for S.F when I finished college. I spent a decade in the Bay area where I began a craft business in textile sewing and painting. As the domestic craft movement was growing in popularity, I moved back to the Hudson Valley to expand that business and opened a factory in Kingston where over a dozen employees cut, sewed, painted, stuffed, inventoried and shipped my original designs ... Show more