About Stephanie Ackerman
most of the time complicate them…in a good way.  I am an ordinary girl living
an extraordinary life where I get to do what I love for a living.
I am a regular girl who love’s GOD, my family, my friends, my neighbors, my
kids school & the teachers who teach there & the volunteers who volunteer
there.
I am a simple girl.
I love Chips & Salsa, ice from a bag and Fuji Apples from Costco.
I used to drive a mini van & am not to proud to say I would go back to a mini
van any day!  (it is easy to haul around bikes, skateboards, boogie boards &
skate ramps )
I LOVE paper, batter, fabric, dough (as in cookie dough) & paint..A LOT...
probably more than the average person.  
When someone asks me how long I have been "creating", I explain that I
started at birth.  My very first project was when the nurses stamped my lil tiny
baby foot in ink and stamped it on something official.  As I grew up,  I made
Barbie Clothes, Barbie forts, pot holders, sit-upons..baked cookies,
cakes…pretty much you name it, I have made it at one time or the other.
at any given moment I might be. . .praying, doodling, running, baking
chocolate chip cookies, watching my boys skate, surf, boogie board, play
soccer, baseball…helping with homework, doing laundry, coordinating fabrics
with paper,  re-tying Ben's shoes, doing more laundry, REALLY loving paper,
sitting at the local skate park, volunteering at the kids school, try to pretend
like I am organizing my piles, turning trash into treasures, sewing, did I
mention laundry???
I love being a mom, a wife, a neighbor, a sister, a daughter…and I love paper
(did I mention that???)...solids & prints, florals & stripe...ditto for fabric, I love
the movies "The Notebook" & Serendipity. I love to scrap, sew, bake, paint...I
am a regular ol' suzy homemaker...and just about 2 years ago…I married the
boy that I fell head over heels in love with when I was 15!

I like straight lines & crooked bangs, flowers in the garden and on fabric, just
not on my clothes.
I love the color red, just not on me, and prefer the color baby blue,
camouflage & leopard prints over the color pink, stripes and solids ( but only
sometimes)
I like fake fingernails but never fake diamonds, I love brides and new babies
and love to plan parties around them, but really don’t like to go the parties…I
am SIMPLY COMPLICATED and I am…happy.


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