I am a mother of 4, as my oldest 25, son and my youngest is 7.  I was a haircutter from the age 17 to 30 and then I decided to go into something more artistic because I always loved fashion  Being creative as being a single mom and working hard to make ends meet, I decided to go to fashion design school although I already new how to sew but wanted to learn more how to design my own patterns and revise them - which that’s exactly what I had did.  Well when I had my last child with my new husband that I am with now for almost 9 years, I did not need to go back to work but that is all I knew how to do - work.  I was getting bored doing nothing but cleaning so I had told him that if he wanted to me stay home that he would have to buy me a sewing machine.  I would have my little one in the playpen and I started making him clothes. Shortly after,  I was getting compliments and the people that I was meeting in stores would ask me If I can make that for there child, so I did.

Then I decided to to do website in 2000 called Peek-A-Boo Design after singing these words to my son which were not even in the song 'peeka peeka boo.'  He would always laugh so I said I will name my store, Peek-A-Boo Design.  After working with clothes, I decided to do handmade diaper bag with embroidery.  I made my design and my pattern and started from there.  The clothes were getting to complicated so I decided to take the diaper bag one step further with the same pattern - instead of putting to big pockets in it I added 2 more pockets on the side as well.  (You can never have enough pockets with the gadget these kids have today.) Then I took the bag to another level and created the signature bag.  I like to work with funky fabrics, retro fabrics that call out to you. I decided to protect the fabric, with a protective over it to make it look like a patent leather look. This material is very hard to work with but now I am using 2 more sewing machines that seem to be working great so far.  This bag is great - no more messes on the bottom of the bag from spilled milk and won't get ruined in the rain. It is the best design that I came up with so far.  I have had a lot of feedback from them and they are selling like crazy.

The only nightmare that I can tell you about is I was making my son teddy bear snow pants and jacket out of fleece material.  When I was all done, I showed my husband he said something does not look right.  I thought he was crazy at first but when I cut out the pants the bears were upside down.  I guess I was in a rush to get it done that I did not pay attention to which way the pattern of the fabric was going and started to cut and sew. Well I never did that again.  After that, I always made sure the pattern was all going in the same direction - small lesson to be learned.

My greatest achievement I would have to say is first of all when you hear the word 'success,' the first thing that comes to mind would be money. Am I right?  Success to me means believing in yourself when no one else does.  Even though I do not have a lot of money, or my diaper bag is not on a celebrity shoulders yet, I am very successful in what I have achieved.  Being a single mom is not an easy job, but I was successful, making sure they went down the right road as they grew up.  I was successful even when I left from being a domestic violence victim.  I was successful in buying my own house while being a single mom when everyone said you can not do it.  I was successful when I gave my children the most valuable advise as they grew up with me as they know now that they can achieve anything they want which is exactly what they ever so doing.  So when you think about it,  everyone is successful in their own right and if you have success in your life then everything will follow.  Like I tell my 13 year old now, KEEP BELIEVING, AND FOLLOW YOUR DREAMS AND NEVER GIVE UP... But my biggest achievement in life are my children.  They made me a stronger person and didn't allow me to give up or quit.  I love creating and sewing, and being with my family.