Hi and welcome!  Thought you might want to know a little bit about me.  I was born in Honolulu, Hawaii 2nd oldest of 7 children.  My father was a pilot/engineer.  Being a kid in Hawaii was fun.  We ran around barefoot and would hang out at the beach in little bikinis soaking up the sun..  Soon I was making my own bikinis.  I took sewing lessons and my mother bought me my first sewing machine when I was nine.  My older sister and I had also been taking dancing lessons and we did alot of recitals.  I had fun making costumes for our stage performances at different military bases on the island.  My dream of becoming a prima ballerina ended when my father took a job with Air America (during the Viet Nam war) and we moved to Southeast Asia.  This is where I really learned how to sew.

After moving all over the world with my family, including Iran, Thailand and Taiwan, I finally graduated from high school in Virginia.  Since I had always loved performing, I enrolled in college as a music major.  I was self taught on flute and guitar and practiced religiously.  I wanted to be a rock star.  I studied hard and took singing lessons and even acting classes.  I dropped out of college to move to the west coast and join a rock band.  One after another I drifted from band to band and audition to audition.  Finally ended up in Long Beach, California where I worked in several rock'n'roll bands doing top 40 in nightclubs.It was great being on stage every night, but I wasn't making much money.  I decided to use my dancing background to supplement my income while waiting for my big Hollywood break.  I got a job in this unique club which was sort of a Flashdance type of bar.  We actually got to keep our clothes on!  We were expected to do little routines and have nice costumes which, for me, was perfect!  I could dance and I sure knew how to make costumes.  I worked there about 5 years and then tried other clubs.  Didn't last long at most of them.  I wanted to work in Las Vegas, but at 5'5", I was not tall enough.  By this time, I had a small following of girls who asked me to make outfits for them.  The natural progression from there was to start a business of my own making gorgeous, sexy clothes for dancers.  I rented a facility, hired the best seamstresses I could find and we've been here now for almost 15 years designing and manufacturing our own line of unique clothing for body conscious women.  It's been great fun!  I still travel the world but spend most of my time designing and selling on eBay.