Connie was an educator in the Bay Area for 37 years. She was always interested in are the area of arts and crafts and worked in several different mediums over the years. In the early 1990's she was introduced to gourd art and "fell in love". She has been creating art with gourds ever since. It was a interest that created so many decorated gourds that the next logical step was to begin marketing them. She has shown them in galleries in Murphys and Angels Camp and also sells them out of her home.