About UsWe are Elizabeth and Marilyn Roy, and we are sisters. As Marilyn would be quick to add, Elizabeth is the older sister. As Elizabeth would be quick to respond, Marilyn gave her the gray hairs, and Marilyn started giving those gray hairs when she was very young.
We come from a crafting, organic gardening, and freezing and canning family. With this blog, we are combining our areas of interest and expertise, and we hope to share it all with you. Our father began using organic gardening practices in the 1950s, and we began helping in the garden and with the freezing and canning when we were in elementary school. Elizabeth now ghostwrites articles for an online organic gardening magazine. Our mother also began teaching us how to sew and taught us how to crochet and embroider while we were in elementary school. Marilyn learned how to knit from an elementary school teacher, and she taught Elizabeth. Elizabeth taught herself how to do needlepoint and how to tat, but Marilyn says tatting is too fussy for her. Both of us macramé and Elizabeth has worked with polymer clay. Marilyn enjoys macramé more than Elizabeth, and one of Marilyn's macramé designs won fourth place in Maxi-Cord's Ultimate Macramé Contest. That design was published in Craft Trends Elizabeth eventually taught tatting as well as knitting and needlepoint for Leewards Craft Bazaar. Marilyn taught crochet. Marilyn likes plastic canvas needlepoint so much that she has sold several patterns to publications such as Crafting Traditions and Plastic Canvas Crafts. She also has four books of plastic canvas designs for Kindle on Amazon, and we are working together on a book of knitted and crocheted Halloween costumes for babies and a book of tatted and macramé jewelry designs. Marilyn plans to add more books to her plastic canvas series. Marilyn also sold a pattern for a knitted doll house spread and pillow to Super Scraps and her Stained Glass Afghan pattern to Crochet World. Elizabeth's expertise in sewing and crafts led her to work in retail sales and store management with Fabric World, JoAnn Fabrics and Crafts, So Fro Fabrics, and Hancock Fabrics. Both of us worked at Leewards Craft Bazaar. Both of us combined college prep and vocational home economics classes in high school, and Elizabeth completed further training in interior decorating through LaSalle Extension University. Elizabeth also worked with BeautiControl Cosmetics as a trained independent image consultant. With this blog, we are combining our areas of expertise, and we hope to share it all with you. If you own or manage a fabric, craft, gardening, landscaping, hardscaping, or interior decorating business and you need copywriting and or content writing services, contact Elizabeth at HomeArtsContentandCopywriting.com or hire Elizabeth on Contra.com. |
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