Glad TJ found the pin I accidentally left in the foot of the snowsuit I made, before we bundled newborn Ellen for her ride home from the hospital! Cringe, bad mommy. Baltimore, MD.

In 2017 after many moves I found my lost fetishes in the Alaska cedar box @ 1977-1997

 I was soldering, linking "tattooed" rawhide into a form, when I read the label warning of toxic fumes. I was pregnant. That's when I switched to the traditional cleaner and safer women's art of quilting. 1988

 A family of Evergreen trees protect a magic silk bag of rice. May it never be empty. For Ellen 1988

 My Chinese Jade armor of tattooed rawhide. 1988

 Mother and Babe. Ellen was in elementary school in Oak Park. @  1994

 Figure made of pig gut (sausage casings).

 Footprint. Moved to Orinda. California beads. @ 1998

 Indochinese Peepshow. @ 1987

 Floss (SAIC days)

The Ketchikan cedar box that hid my treasures from me.

1st International Shoebox Sculpture 1988 'Lucky Peach Boy Book and Other Tales'.