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Let me introduce myself. 
My name is Marlies and I was born on February 3/1953 in
Switzerland. When I started this site I lived in Saint John,
New Brunswick Canada. In September 1999 we moved to Halifax/Dartmouth,
Nova Scotia, Canada. I am a mother of 3 and have been interested
in creative arts as long as I can remember.
I watched other people do things and then went home and tried
them myself. Lucky for me the Swiss school system worked to
my advantage. In Grade 1 we were taught to knit and crochet
and then went on to embroidery and sewing. Until Grade 6 we
had to do all our sewing by hand and then we were taught to
use a sewing machine. I remember to this day when I was around
5, my dad and I were using my mother's sewing machine. We
had threaded it with red thread and were sewing postcards.
Somehow one of my fingers got included with the postcard and
the needle sewed right over and through it. I believe my father
almost fainted, but all I remember is the blood and my mother
getting upset.
I've always made my crafts on a shoestring budget and get
great pleasure out of creating something beautiful from what
other people consider 'worthless'. I guess being left handed
and an Aquarius helped a lot with approaching life and things
in an unorthodox way.
For Christmas 1987 we bought our first computer. The kids
wanted a Nintendo, but I felt that a computer would offer
us more. So I learnt to use a computer, and my knowledge has
increased as computers grew and developed. Today I am quite
comfortable looking 'under the hood' so to speak of the computer.
I discovered graphic programs and was finally able to create
what I always could visualize. As a kid in school, I always
found art class frustrating as I could see in my minds eye
what I wanted to draw, but my final result was always disappointingly
different. The computer has eliminated this completely. I
just love to create my own graphics.
Our family got the Internet in May 1996 and boy has it changed
our household. TV has largely lost its luster. The Net is
so much more interactive and we have joined the global community.
It doesn't matter any longer that I am living far from the
big cities. Now I have access to everything and everybody
right here from my computer.
In 1997 my husband won me on the Internet a free web site
for 3 months for my birthday. I had no HTML knowledge, but
was determined to create my own site. My son
had just created his own site and I thought that I could do
it too. I looked for HTML tutorials on the Net and went to
work. My first site gave me invaluable experience. It doesn't
exist any longer, and I am really proud of my current site.
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