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I am a CERTIFIED INTERIOR DECORATOR, living in Delray Beach, FL.

For years (many, really…), I have been doing things, with color, forms, shapes, little pieces, rooms.

My first “project” was to transform a small bedroom in the first house I remember living, into my own space, even though the one I was sharing with my sister was big, had French doors to a balcony. I was 11 years old, and my mother was freaking out, out of the mess I’d make, and the disastrous (and much probable) results of that “project” of mine...

So, I got the little money I had saved, out of the weekly allowance, combined with an eventual one received as a X-Mas or birthday gift, hopped into a bus, and went to a paint store; nobody knew how to help me out with the color I had in mind – dark blue…that was 1968, when latex paint had to be mixed with little tubes of colorants, to achieve a very light hue. After about ten of those dark blue tubes, all I had was a medium blue – so, I settled for that, and I also bought a can of a bright yellow glossy enamel.. The next step was the fabric store, where I spent the rest of themoney, buying many yards of a cotton floral fabric, to cover the doors of a double built-in closet. 
After painting the room (my sister helped me out, but first rolled me in blue…), I covered the closet doors with the floral cotton fabric, and I did have some leftovers that I used for the door and window frames, as well as for a couple of pillow shams. I asked my father to remove that hideous fluorescent light fixture, hanging from chains, and put up an old industrial metal lamp, which I painted with the bright yellow enamel.


The results:
my Mother was so stunned, that every single person coming over was “forced” to go upstairs and see the room…since then, I guess I have never stopped.
Even though pursuing a dream and successful career as a veterinarian, the crafty dwarfs living inside my soul never came to be quiet – so, at every spare moment of my days (and mainly nights), I was always into something with my hands and colors
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My Mother had a designer's soul, and an extreme passion and devotion for all living forms; with a great eye for aesthetics, she taught me and my sister to knit; she was also great in artistic paint, even though she didn’t produce too many. My sister, Denise, is an amazing knitter, all into lacing and delicate pieces – check out her blog, it’s delightful:  http://denisevonposer.blogspot.com or her wonderful handknitting wonders, at www.luxurylace.com.br ; as for myself, I am a very, very rustic knitter – I use broom handles as knitting needles, rope, twine, scraps of fabric, cotton, and I have a blast, with curtains, pillows, throws and rugs. My Father was always amazed at my "doodles", and kept saying that I was getting somewhere... I hope he is right (!!!).

So, after I professionally “closed” the veterinarian chapter (even though I am still a Veterinarian), I decided to study interior decoration, and got my degree and international certification, and I spend my days wishing I could have 8 or more hands, like an octopus, in order to carry out four projects simultaneously (which I do, anyways, but with only two good hands, takes a little longer…)

Bottom line: I restore pieces of furniture, or turn them into something else, and that includes almost like everything, from switch plates to ceiling fixtures, dresses, chairs, wine boxes, shelves, and such; I knit and crochet (which I don’t really love doing, which usually happens when I finish it), I sew (and most definitely do not like doing it, but it is a necessary karma sometimes). I also paint from canvasses to walls, I use watercolors (love them!), acrylics, texture paints. All in all, I have fun doing my stuff, lots of fun!

I hope you like my pieces as well, and I hope you keep coming and visit them as often as you can, either here, under “Gallery” or at “
Address”, also, if you have something you like, but would have in mind another color, or even if you see something I have done, and want it somehow different, I may be able to custom make it for you, just ask!

Oh, and my name is Marcia Jones, I was born and raised in Sao Paulo, Brazil, where I lived for 46 years before moving to the U.S.


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