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Andrea Corrona Jenkins is a photographer, writer and modern dance teacher living in the great pacific northwestern city of Portland, Oregon with her husband and two children. She's fairly certain her kids hung the moon but is not the kind of mother who likes to brag. Andrea's roots are in modern dance-- she received a BS in dance education from Georgia State University, completed intensive studies at the American Dance Festival at Duke University and spent 15 years teaching and performing with Moving In the Spirit, an Atlanta-based nonprofit youth development program that uses dance as a vehicle to positively transform the lives of inner-city youth.

Andrea's love for the way the world looks through the lens of a camera is the only thing that truly rivals her love for movement. For the past decade, she has immersed herself in the art of photography and continues to experiment with a wide variety of cameras and techniques. Andrea's work has been featured in publications such as Light Leaks, Artful Blogging, Life Images, Vain and Glimpse and is a regular contributor to the ever delightful UPPERCASE magazine. Most days, you can find Andrea over at her blog, hulaseventy, where she obsessively writes about photobooths, motherhood, modern dance, underground hip hop, polaroid photography and the importance of list making.

Stephanie Lee writes "I'm a seeker and a finder, an asker and a listener, a poet and a mute. I work with metal, plaster and paint and share what I've learned to others through teaching. I try my best to live consciously. I live for the biggest little things - like rain storms and a house full of laughter and the sound of trumpets.

I love learning, sewing, cooking, making things for friends, generally being domestic, reading and writing and writing about what I'm reading. I eat peaches over the sink, my insides like to boogie while my outsides keep a cool front. I love green shoes and wearing them while perhaps driving a little too fast because I like the way my stomach tickles when I go over that one little hill..."

Visit Stephanie at her blog Semiprecious Salvage.

ALICIA PAULSON is a craft designer whose interests in sewing, embroidery, crochet, and quilting are both intense and capricious, depending on the weather, what’s for dinner, who’s cooking, and how much room is left on the couch after various household animals make themselves comfortable on it.

She is the author of Stitched in Time: Memory-Keeping Projects to Sew and Share (Potter Craft, 2008) as well as a forthcoming collection of decorative embroidery, cross-stitch, and crewelwork projects called Embroidery Companion: Classic Designs for Modern Living, to be published by Potter Craft in the summer of 2010. Originally from Chicago, she is infatuated with the Pacific Northwest and has lived in Portland, Oregon, since 1997. Visit Alicia at her website.