About The Evil Seamstress

Hello, my name is Katie. I am first and foremost, the mother of an amazing 14-year-old boy. There are days that I am unsure if he is amazing in the “extraordinary human being whom I adore spending time with” sense of the word or just an amazing pain in my ass… I am sure he will get over this with age. On the whole he is a great kid and I wouldn’t trade him for the world. I am also the wife of a pretty bad ass barber. He is my co-pilot, and more often than not, my conscience (he pretty much keeps me from telling everyone what exactly it is that I think of them or what they have done on a regular and unedited basis).  I am also a daughter; sister, aunt, niece, granddaughter and a friend to those brave souls who choose to voluntarily spend time with me. Obviously my family and friends mean a great deal to me (mess with them and I will cut you… OK not really, but I may make you cry nonetheless).

I spent many years struggling to find me in all that I thought I “should” be doing. I thought that I had to be just one thing for many of those years and could never choose what that one thing was to be. I have led a pretty interesting life thus far and hope that I continue to have many great adventures (but perhaps these good times could be more easily won once in a while. yeah, that would be nice wouldn’t it? Meh, we all need our pipe dreams). I have been a lot of things so far; I was a “Dead Head” in the early years, I have been a waitress and sales associate… I devoted the first five years of my son’s life to being a stay at home mother and went back to work in the medical field once he was old enough to go to school. I started as a CNA in the home care industry where I did a lot of hospice work. That job made me sad after a few years so I moved on to my work as a “Birth Control Fairy”. I did this at a very busy and well known family planning clinic and I truly loved what I did there. Unfortunately I was stricken by a rare illness in 2006 which has left me unable to continue working and after struggling to grasp what has happened to me for a few years, I realized that I have yet another chance to reinvent myself, which I dearly love doing.

I recently realized that through all of the years of trying to find myself, I have always known who I am. I am an artist. I create and I don’t have to create one thing. I write and I sew, I decorate my home… I paint and draw and glue things to stuff… I don’t have to be told I am an artist by anyone else. It is who I am and is what I need to do. I can be fickle and silly and whimsical (which is one of my favorite things to be by the way) and indecisive, this is who I am and I think that if I can learn to live with it then so can the rest of the world. So after this little gem of a discovery I have yet again reinvented who I am by becoming a college student!

I just began my first term at the Art Institute and will be working toward my Bachelors of Science in Graphic Design. I hope to hone my crafts and gain the experience and knowledge I need to make a career of doing what I love. You will find my writings here… you better belt yourself into your chair though; sometimes reading my thoughts can be a bumpy ride.  I also do more serious writing but generally keep that to myself and will continue to do so until I actually publish these mysterious bits of fiction that I hope to turn into books one day (you know, I don’t want some wanker stealing my work or something like that). I will also be posting and writing about my art and sewing here; this is a new thing so it may take a while to get a lot of that posted.

I do hope you enjoy my blog, if you don’t that is alright too… it is you who has to live with your ultimate suckiness.