I love to make things. I love making dresses, garden parties, crocheted dog sweaters, embroidered pillowcases, invitations, and model horse tack. I love making twig fences, rock borders, tags for my products, photo albums, and cozy guest rooms. I love cooking dinner for friends, painting chandeliers, and making pretty baby presents.

I went to college to study English, then graduate school to study creative writing, but I've always liked to make things with my hands. In 2000, I left my job as a book editor and started Posie: Rosy Little Things, a one-woman studio where I create one-of-a-kind handbags, accessories, crochet-wear, and original art. From 2003 until 2006, I co- owned Ella Posie, a boutique in Portland, Oregon, featuring dozens of other unique, handmade, vintage-inspired product lines.

I love to take photos and write daily at my blog, Posie Gets Cozy, and I am thrilled to be writing and photographing a book of original sewing projects called STITCHED SOUVENIRS: MEMORY-KEEPING PROJECTS TO SEW AND SHARE, which will be published by Potter Craft in the fall of 2008.

Though I was born and raised in River Forest, Illinois, I now live in Portland with my husband, Nurse of the Year Andy Paulson, R.N.; two cats; and a Cardigan Welsh corgi puppy named Clover.