More about the “Daughter” of this Mother Daughter Business

“So here I am—not a sower—or a sewer—but a weaver of tales—a spinner of yarns (though not the material kind).  The legacy I have been given is unrolling a different type of thread—and the fabric, though often unseen, still can be passed to my children and grandchildren.” –Barbara Wilcox Scaferri, my grandmother in a 1994 journal entry.

              And pass it she did.  Ever since I can remember art and storytelling have been central to my life.  When I was very little, I enrolled in acting tier classes at Stebens Children’s Theatre and it was love at first sight.  After pretending to be zoo animals and ice cream cones for years, I was in my first production, Guys and Dolls, at the age of thirteen; I have been involved with theatre ever since.

The Butcher in Stone Soup my senior year of high school

a variety show my junior year of college

              Almost every form of art I can get my hands on, I have experimented with.  I have dabbled in novel writing, script writing, and poetry.  Though these activities are a lot more for fun and self-expression then anything professional.

In high school, learning from a true Wonder Woman, art teacher Jan Kostka

Playing in the clay with Ma at home during COVID isolation

              The thing that calms me the most is painting and sketching.  For me, there’s something about getting lost in the blending of the colors to make a whole world on just a piece of canvas.  I decided to move this practice onto cloth, at first, for purely selfish reasons.  After I graduated, I just couldn’t find any neat shirts I wanted.  Not at Target, or local thrift stores; not even Walmart!  So I thought, why not just design and draw my own?  Flash forward to two years later and now I make these items for others with my lovely Mama.  And I know my grandmother Barb, who the shop is named in honor of, is very proud of us both.