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About  Marla  J

In 2002, during one of these workshops,  Marla J decided to make her first porcelain egg.  After retiring from a career in Education, Marla J and Bill started  traveling for about six months every year,  doing volunteer work at a Christian Boarding School in  Kentucky.  It was during this time, she found it was much easier to continue with the porcelain egg art, as she traveled away from home.  In 2004, she began working with the authentic shells.  Now her time is consumed with "working" with both types of egging and  porcelain lace draping.

About 1999, quite by accident, Marla J discovered  the dying art of porcelain lace draping.  While visiting  a friend of a friend's home, she saw the most beautiful figurines .  While searching local ceramics shops trying to find someone to help her learn the art of porcelain lace draping, she found out not too many people practiced the art.  She was told that Ann Vaccaro, who lived in Phoenix and was considered by many, to be the Grande Dame of porcelain lace draping,  gave classes, but that one would have to be really lucky to get into her classes as they were always full.  Marla J went home, called Ann Vaccaro, and was invited to come the next day, as she had an opening in that class.  For several years, Marla J took lessons under the tutelage of Ann Vaccaro.  A new passion was born.  

Over the years, Marla J has been involved in a variety of creative endeavors, some of which included: working with stained glass, floral design and arranging, paper tole, oil painting, tole painting, and wearable art, to name a few. For several years after graduating college, sewing became a favorite past time. During this time, Marla J made all of her own clothes. That phase of her life ended and she went on to other endeavors.  Years later, Bill, her husband,  would comment, with a smile, that, now he couldn't  get her to even sew a button on his shirt.  How the passage of time can change us.