Kay has a special talent of visualizing the possibilities for unique decor that fits the user. Her goal on every project is to create a user-friendly decor that is pure eye candy. This usually involves projects that are her own creations such as creating a lamp out of anything or changing a piece of furniture to fit your look and function. She will rescue parts of furniture or architectural items about to be discarded and use them as an accent in a room or reassemble them into something that they never were meant to be such as a mirror frame from an old table. Kay’s favorite pastime is searching for home decor ideas by prowling around home im-provement stores, reading Handyman and Decorating Magazines, and frequenting garage sales. Her forte is taking what she finds in her search and applying it in ways that it was never intended to be used. Kay’s projects have been published in Arts and Crafts Magazine and by Dow.

After ten years of having a retail store in Eau Claire, Wisconsin, where she created dried floral arrangements and decorated homes and businesses, Kay has decided to offer her ideas to everyone via books and speaking. Her first book in her All Through the Home series is All Through the Home - Bathrooms released in September, 2003. All Through the Home - Kitchens will follow closely in spring, 2004. In addition to her books, Kay conducts workshops on do-it-yourself home decor topics such as Create a Lamp Out of Anything, Faux Finishing Techniques, Small Furniture Renewal, and Brown Paper Bag Wall Papering. She wants to help women learn to use tools such as the miter box and the drill comfortably, just as she does. Since learning to handle tools or getting home decor ideas is a visual process, Kay plans to put her ideas into a television vignette series based on her book series.

Kay may be reached through Monarch Tree Publishing Inc. at info@monarchtreepublishing.com or 888-895-7166.