I was born and raised in Anchorage, Alaska, where I honed my creativity skills with the scissors and tape stolen from my mom, along with the sewing lessons my parents signed me up for. I grew to love home decor into adulthood.

 

I moved to Spokane in 2010 with my husband to attend Occupational Therapy school at Eastern Washington University after realizing the journalism world that I had gone to undergrad for wasn't what I wanted. After almost a decade in the OT world and welcoming our three children, I opened my pillow shop, Cotton and Co. Spokane in 2018. What started as a hobby side hustle eventually turned into my full-time job.

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I am now not only passionate about home decor, I am a firm believer in supporting small businesses as much as possible. And that's why I started the Liberty Lake Fall Festival: to bring small businesses and their customers together in one place to shop and create those human connections that are so important in the small business world.