Growing up in Nashville, Tennessee gives you the feel of a big city with the twist of a small-town, and there is certainly no lack of creativity here.  You see it in everything from music to food.  While I have never thought of myself as an artist, there has always been a very practical, problem solving aspect to my personality. 

I grew up in a family that took care of everything themselves when it came to home repairs and even some automobile work.  My dad was always figuring out how to fix something for us, or a neighbor down the street.  Somewhere along the way I picked up that skill and it has proved its usefulness over and over again.

My careers took me everywhere from door-to-door sales to most recently, the front office of an elementary school.  As this job grew, I began to realize God was pulling me in another direction. It was time to start my own business.

When I bought my first house, it needed lots of work, so my dad and I spent the next two months doing everything from rewiring electrical outlets, to building custom cabinets and tiling the kitchen backsplash.  Once the bones of the house were finished, it needed some furniture, hmmmm no money in the budget for those items.  So with his help, we began designing and building a dining room table.  This was my first experience in realizing this wood is still alive and will move and grow according to how I shape it.  I was hooked on the idea I could design something, and then build it to my specifications.  I knew at some point I wanted to do this for a living.

To see a piece of wood go from raw planks (or even a fallen tree at the farm), to a beautiful item in your home is incredibly gratifying.  When you use a creative problem solving skill to create something with a practical purpose while maintaining its beauty, you create items that stand the test of time.