I first learned to crochet when I was in high school, when a friend's mom handed me a skein of yarn and a crochet hook. She didn't know much crochet herself, but she did know a single stitch. At the time, I didn't know what it was, but now I know it was the Double Crochet. From that moment on, I was 'hooked'! I never knew how to do any other stitch, so I made blanket after blanket with any scrap yarn anyone would gift me, and ended up making a ton of blankets that my kids still have twelve years later. 

For a while I put crochet away, as well as any other creative projects I had worked on, until Covid. Spending so much time at home really helped me re-connect with my creativity, and I decided to go all in on crochet! I gathered SO much yarn and stocked up with hooks and a variety of other tools, and turned to youtube for my lessons. It was a challenge learning all the different kinds of stitches and all the crochet terminology, but soon I was able to make just about anything.

In the fall of 2021 a friend showed me a reel someone using a mushroom lighter holder, like the ones pictured above. She said she NEEDED one and that I was required to make it for her. And I gladly accepted! This was the first pattern I figured out on my own, and after making the first one, I couldn't stop. I ended up bringing a whole stock of them with me to a festival called Pyro Music Festival, which was in Ohio that year. I went with the intention to sell them, but I ended up gifting the first one to a man I had met at that festival... the man who is now my partner in life, business... and crime. 

He has inspired growth in my crochet ventures in so many beautiful and magical ways, turning my mushrooms into jellyfish, and setting me on a course I never would have been on without him. My biggest sellers are now all my jellyfish products, from teeny tiny little earrings (including a tiny pouch), to giant fuzzy jellyfish. Everyone loves them, and we've found so many ways to display them! One of my favorite ways was during a show my partner, Abram Sudan, was live painting at. He was set up in a space that was near a walk-way, similar to a hallway. He hung my jellyfish, of multiple sizes and colors, from the ceiling of this walk-way, so people passing by would walk under or through them. He is known for his colorful lighting with his paintings, and used the color-changing lights that night to create a magical underwater scene.