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many many years ago I was a dancer when
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I did interior designing for about 18
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years my parents both were marvelous
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stars my brother became a designer for
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Disney Studios and my sister is a great
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artist so then when I went through all
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my different careers I figured I may as
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well paint we were in LA we went to king
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baby which is a big primarily men's
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jewelry and and I just started looking
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at some of it and thought I can make
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this my husband is a guy that loves to
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wear jewelry and I started making
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jewelry for him and then I just started
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learning what I liked I worked in
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information technology and I've been
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retired so for about a year now I've
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been working with Ford's I still am
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working full time work in IT and this is
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my site visit I was a commercial artist
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for about ten years
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dealt with deadlines all the time that
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wasn't too keen on that so I thought if
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I'm ever gonna make something out of
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myself I might as well go off on my own
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so I quit all that and started my own
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business doing this and I've been doing
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this now for 44 years
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the dancers bodies are so magnificent
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whenever I paint one it sells
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immediately I am not a creative person
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or I always thought I was not a creative
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person so I started doing this and my
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son's that are nine years old twins they
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help me out and one of them did this
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with some creative painting and you said
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blast I like to have a variety of art so
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that it can reach a wider range of
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people this is one board started like
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this I use a variety of tools I use a
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jigsaw use a rotary Carver wood-burning
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tools paints and stains and drills and
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needles to sew the leather handle
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actually on to first it's really brought
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that creativity really back you know I
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mean I'm a hair stylist and that's what
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I've been doing since I got out of high
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school but this is a different aspect of
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the creativity that I just feel so
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inspired the fact that I'm able to sell
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it that people enjoy it is just icing on
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the cake well I've always always told
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that I should go and do it business
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major in college and all this stuff but
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I had this love for art work I was not
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an artistic kid at all but I found that
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using the right side of your brain is
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very therapeutic and it's very working
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in a left frame field like I did an IT I
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really needed some sort of an outlet
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it's been really inspirational to find a
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second career and it doesn't always have
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to happen in your 20s you know it can
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happen at any stage of life just to be
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inspired by what you're doing
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you
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The 24th Annual Balboa Island Artwalk in Newport Beach was held on Sunday, May 20, 2018. More than 100 local artisans showcased their paintings, sculptures, textiles, jewelry and all-around extraordinary crafts in an environment that - despite the overcast weather - was stunning in its own right. Lots of inspiration here...
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