Well, I make stuff. Lots and lots of stuff and I've been doing that since I could work a roll of tape and paper towels to make evening dresses for Barbie to go out to the purple peacock. My Barbie was quite a partier in her "Bounty" gown.

I started at the age of nine working at a hippie bead store in Newburyport, MA in the days that the town was inhabited by artists and musicians of every kind.I macrame'd earrings for a buck a pair. Apparently hippies didn't know about the child labor laws. But it taught me things I still remember to this day.

I later went to a trade school and quickly I realized I stunk at sewing clothing from a pattern but I could sew anything, if I was the creator from the beginning. After graduation I moved to Florida and then eventually found New York City where I did most of my growing-crazy times, crazy place. I loved it and still consider it home.

I became a massuese but this was not to be my true calling. All the while making everything from weenie genies and sculpting court jester wands to hand painted t-shirts and selling them on Columbus Ave. on sunday mornings. I took a silversmithing class and became a jeweler for 10 years and eventually a single mom. Best move of my life. So after moving back to NE near family I started a car detailing business. It thrived but it was too seasonal as it was all done outside. Single moms need $$ year round. not just on sunny days. So I was still bartending in Portsmouth, NH to keep food on the table.

As a Saturday morning past time, my mum and I would go yard saling. And after seeing the deals to be had, I thought I'd open a shop where the deals could be passed on. I'd fix up the furniture, polish the chrome toasters, spiff up the china and sell it with my new shop and call it "other people's stuff" .

This I did for the last 6 years. It allowed me to make even more stuff to my hearts content and have an outlet to sell it. A few years ago I got yet another idea to do bags, collars, and belts. But as the bag business thrived, the store slowed with only so many hours in a day . One had to go, so i closed up shop in July 2005 and opened up my studio in the barn with my daughter and four cats. I'm a one woman show. I design, cut, and sew every stitch of every Lily item as well as anything else on site. So here we are.