Introduction Peggy Kemp

Hi Everyone

 You know that I love featuring people on my blog.  Introducing what others are creating and of course if they use Nicole's BeadBacking that just makes me happy.

Peggy Kemp is a wonderful person and an amazing artist. 

In her own words

Peggy Kemp.

 My mission is to help make the world a better place, every day, in whatever I way I can. I try to live aloha and be of loving service. In addition, I want to have FUN and encourage others to enjoy and have faith in their innate creativity and spiritual connection. I'm inspired by nature and color and shape. I'm motivated by how miserable I feel when I don't make art every day. 

My "beadsugar" gets low and I get crabby.

Peggy in Paradise: I live on the Garden Island of Kauai, in Hawaii. I live in a tiny apartment in the bottom of a large house, in a residential neighborhood mauka (toward the mountains) from Kapaa. I have lived on Kauai for almost 14 years and I still feel lucky to be here every day. I never take this beauty for granted.

 I still very much have a "day job." I am the CEO, chief cook and bottle washer, main worker, and "Princess in Charge" at Peggy in Paradise, the business I run out of my home studio. Peggy in Paradise is a full-serve business that covers everything I know how to do: bookkeeping, remote office management, search engine optimization, social media marketing and management, business consulting, personal organization, gardening, healing. 

And beading and doll-making! In my spare time, I run a little doll hospital and make doll clothes for fun.

 I have made dolls all my life. My mom taught me to embroider when I was five, and my sister and I dressed our dolls in clothes of our own design. I did cross-stitch and needlepoint for many years. I didn't start bead embroidering until I was around 40, so 20 years ago, and that was about the same time I began to focus on making healing dolls.

 Healing dolls, and other intentional dolls, are made with a prayer in every stitch, while holding an intention of healing.

 Well, Michangelo! And Rubens, Henri Rousseau, Frida Kahlo, and the mille fleur style of the Unicorn Tapestries. But in the modern day, it is without question, Robin Atkins. I met her online 7 years ago when I was searching for flower beads and ordered her book "Spirit Dolls." It is so aligned with who I am and what I do, I felt a kinship with her right away. I use her simple body pattern often. I also very much admire the three-dimensional woven beadwork of Diane Fitzgerald and the netted work of Sandra 

Peggy has a sharp imagination and creates from her heart. To see more of Peggy's art and to see the lovely place she lives please click on these links
http://peggyinparadise.blogspot.com/
Peggy Kemp FB

Nicole/Beadwright

Honor and integrity in art, in life.