Gaining skills and experience to become a professional artist by pursuing a degree in fine art-graphic design at Clark College, and taking courses online though Make Art That Sells.Self-publishing a line of homeschool curriculum, from original material that we have used over many years of homeschooling.Developing a line of sewing patterns for making felt toys, and also marketing some finished felt toys.Present goals: 1- to complete my visual art education and continue creating artworks and developing illustration/design/other artwork as a business 2- to make curriculum and pattern books available in CD format, and to continue to develop more of them as both ebooks and CD's, and 2- to implement more marketing strategies . . .Also am learning about songwriting and the music industry. I am a member of Nashville Songwriters Association International and West Coast Songwriters, and have been exploring how to do home recording, and how to produce music. This past summer I made a CD with folk music (some kids songs, and also some general folk songs), called "You Can't Take a Spiderweb Home," available on CD Baby and some other places.Present goals: 1- to work on polishing and making recordings of a repertoire of songs that I have already written, and to do some performing at open mics and at my church 2- to continue writing and working on new songs.Specialties: whimsical illustration art, colorful line-design abstract art, unique preschool and kindergarten materials, felt toy pattern development and construction, creative educational materials for children through middle school agesongwriting-- folk and Christian music, music for children