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Jill Portugal Paglino has been collecting sea glass for about five years, mostly along Hammonassett Beach in Madison, CT, which is her "happy place." She then wire-wraps the glass into unique pendants and teaches occasional workshops so others can do the same.

When she's not walking along the tideline searching for bits of glass, Jill can be found providing counseling to suburban teens, playing the drums, driving her kids around, or napping.

Visit her shop at https://guilfordseaglass.storenvy.com/products

Atabey Sánchez-Haiman says "I make art that makes people smile. My art’s purpose is to make people happy.” Her signature colors - yellow, orange and red - are visible on our class website (she made our 25th reunion t-shirts) and in her online shop Giraffes+Robots Pop Art.

Her instagram (@giraffesrobots) has a daily Spot the Difference that is a lot of fun!

Check out Mimi Tsang's delightful creations in her accessories shop called Hello Shiso. Her small design studio and workshop based in Berkeley, CA makes accessories for boys, girls and sometimes their parents.

Pete Bartle recently launched Velomino, a brand of stylish and comfortable velour (that's right, velour) tracksuits offered in a variety of vibrant and fun colors for men, women, and toddlers. These babies are made in the USA and his company literally wrote The Book On Velour Tracksuits. In addition to free shipping, the Class of 95’rs can use discount code BAMGIFT2021 at checkout for an additional 10% off.

Debi Cornwall has two art books out:

• Necessary Fictions: A look at American state-created realities: what are the stories we are told, the games we play, to manage unsettling truths in a time of turmoil?

• Welcome to Camp America: Inside Guantánamo Bay: A vivid and disorienting glimpse into the U.S. Naval Station in Guantánamo Bay, Cuba and its global diaspora of released men, through photographs, declassified archival material, and first-person texts. Essays by Moazzam Begg, Fred Ritchin, and Debi Cornwall.

Debi (MCM ‘95) turned to conceptual documentary art and filmmaking after a 12-year career as a civil-rights lawyer representing innocent DNA exonerees in wrongful conviction lawsuits.

Check out Amity Gaige's Sea Wife -- "a smart, sophisticated page literary page-turner about a young family who escape suburbia for a yearlong sailing trip that upends all of their lives."

Amity has also written three other novels, O My Darling, The Folded World, and Schroder, which was short-listed for the Folio Prize in 2014. Both paperback and audiobook available here.

Greg D'Alesandre, a former software engineer, co-founded Dandelion Chocolate, a bean-to-bar chocolate maker based in San Francisco.

Check out the tasty confections via their online store. Not sure what to get? Not to worry, there are a number of gift box sets to choose from as well as cookies, and pastries.

Check out Anjali Mitter Duva's novel "Faint Promise of Rain", which was shortlisted for the 2016 William Saroyan International Prize for Writing. "It is 1554 in the desert of Rajasthan, and a new Mughal emperor is expanding his territory. On a rare night of rain, a daughter, Adhira, is born to a family of Hindu temple dancers. Fearing a bleak future, her father--against his wife and sons' protests--puts his faith in tradition and in his last child for each to save the other: he insists Adhira "marry" the temple deity and give herself to a wealthy patron. But after one terrible evening, she makes a bold choice that carries her family's story and their dance to a startling new beginning." Visit Anjali's website.