In 1990, in a 7th grade wood shop class, I fell in love with the scroll saw.  In that class, I invented my first wall mounted jewelry display for my mother as a gift for her birthday to showcase the beautiful jewelry she had collected over the years living abroad.  

A decade later, after college and falling into a career in the hedge fund industry, I began to feel a pull toward more creative endeavors and it wasn’t long before I assembled a basement workshop and opened up an Etsy shop to start selling my new designs, turning my own original drawings and patterns into three-dimensional, functional art made out of wood.