Creating handcrafted items via sewing and quilting. Selling antiques and vintage collectibles. Etsy shop sales, advertising on Instagram and Faceboook business pages.

Researching genealogical records for my family as well as other families.

Cheese monger sales associate at the quaint little shop located in the Inner Sunset neighborhood of San Francisco, selling British fine goods and cheese.

Worked alongside Lynsey Gammon, head farmer preparing the land for the newly opened Lodge at Blue Sky Ranch.

Assisted in the opening of this stunning luxury ranch by doing housekeeping and maintaining guest rooms and public spaces, while also spending part-time working at the on-site farm, Blue Sky Ranch.

APPRENTICE EMBALMER/OFFICE RECORDS MANAGER•Administer daily operations, including answering phones for two offices, delivering messages, digitizing old files, indexing cemetery records, performing data entry, creating death certificates, dispatching removal services, managing National Cemetery Administration schedules and Veterans Administration Forms, and ordering military honors/flags.•Collaborate with the corporate account department in streamlining onsite check issuance, petty cash, and check register.•Design funeral/memorial folders in Publisher to suit each clients individual needs.•Demonstrate expertise in embalming, dressing, cosmetizing, and casketing, as well as planning and facilitating funerals and burials. •Liaise with coroner offices, health and vital statistics offices, local hospitals, and doctors to determine causes of death in order to create an official certificate of death.

•Oversaw embalming, removals, family meetings, body packaging, and delivery. •Spearheaded business remodeling processes, including removal of wall paper, painting, drafting measurements of rooms and purchasing lumber and supplies.

•Optimized embalming, cremation, autopsy, and other funeral processes, including first calls/removals, data entry within the SmartDirector and EDRS online programs, mortuary maintenance, casket delivery, backfilling graves, and managing equipment.•Transportation of casketed deceased individuals to the National Cemetery for interment.•Partnered with the Del Norte County Sheriff Coroner’s office on first calls/removals as well as assist their pathologist as technician to all autopsies to determine cause of death.•Advised clients as a funeral coach console them during the loss to meet their needs.

•Advanced personal knowledge of embalming, autopsy repairs, cremation, and handling long bone donor cases. •Performed cadaveric blood draws on the deceased going for body donation. •Bridged communications several local funeral homes, residential families, adult foster care homes, and regional hospitals in the ease of first call/removals of the deceased.

•Design handcrafted metal furniture pieces, demonstrating exquisite craftsmanship and constructing quality items of stainless steel, hand hammered copper, and natural antlers.