So that was how I started, then my parents bought me a cheap plastic toy sewing machine that I used so much I broke it. That machine sure did beat the hand sewing thing though! So when we moved to a house they bought me my first real sewing machine in a wooden desk. In high school sewing class I was the first one done with my project and sneaked to help almost everyone in the class with theirs!

This love for sewing grew and so did the love for clothes and fashion. Not necessarily the fad of the times would be my obsession, just style in general and any style I felt that day would be fine for me, no matter what the fads were doing! Whenever I would buy clothes for myself I would alter them in one way or another. To this day I can still lay out fabric and cut away at it without a pattern to make a piece of clothing to wear or even take someone's favorite dress and make another one using their old dress.
I even carry a light weight sewing machine (similar to the cheap plastic one of my past) in the motor home, I never know when I'll have something to sew! One day on a camping trip a friend bought a cool outfit from me that I made. She had some beads she bought to snaz up the outfit up for Fantasy Feast in Key West. I hooked up the machine to an inverter (because we were not around power) and sewed the beads on for her!

Alterations of broken zippers are defiantly not my favorite thing but I have done all sorts of alterations and custom clothing for people in my own home for a business for more than 12 years. I have made wedding dresses and prom gowns, costumes to snowmobile seat covers for customers!
At the Family Center in my town I took a $35 Web Design Class in only six weeks and made a web site for most of the clothes I make and sell calling it Cyndi's Creations. In a Web Development class I took in the fall of 2003 at Tunxis Community College I made a Halloween Page for some of the costumes made for the Family over the years.
Over the past couple of years I have also made custom costumes and alterations for a small dance studio in town. It's really rewarding to see young children through teens loving my ability and being excited to wear something that I made from 'scratch' as I would call it!