Expertise:  I can answer any questions having to do with wicker furniture, chair caning and all other types of chair seat weaving. I DO NOT GIVE APPRAISALS, nor do I buy/sell wicker furniture at this time.

Experience in the area
I have been in the antique wicker furniture restoration business for over 30 years, have maintained my own website, www.WickerWoman.com since 1999, published a free monthly ezine, Wicker Woman's Weavings, since 1999, established a Furniture Repair Directory on my site in 2004 and also an online Chair Caning-Seatweaving Forum in 2004.

Organizations
National Basketry Organization, numerous regional and state basket guilds, a founding member and first President of The SeatWeavers' Guild, (formed here in America on July 15, 2007), and member of the Basketmakers' and Chair Seaters' Association located in the United Kingdom (UK).

Publications
Woman's Day Budget Decorating Ideas 2006, Country Living August 2004, Finishing & Restoration Magazine, October 2002, Barbara Brabec's Handmade For Profit, Homemade Money-Starting Smart! and Homemade Money-Bringing in the Bucks!, Collector's Journal, Basketry Round-Up #2 by Shereen LaPlantz, Splint Woven Basketry by Robin Taylor Daugherty, 101 Best Home-Based Businesses for Women by Priscilla Y. Huff, Ralph & Terry Kovel's Yellow Pages of Restoration Experts, Small Town Minnesota from A-Z by Tony Andersen and monthly Wicker Furniture columnist for Minnesota's The Old Times newspaper in 1993 & 1994.

Education/Credentials
High school graduate

Awards and Honors
I've been involved in several unique wicker restoration projects such as weaving two wicker chairs for the Johnson Wax Replica Sikorsky S-38 Amphibian Airplane in 1998, then two more in 2000 for Buzz Kaplan, owner of Born Again Restorations, the company that created the replica Sikorsky, and did the restoration of all the wicker furniture in the Itasca State Park, Bemidji, MN during their Centennial celebration in 1995. I've also served as Chair Seatweaving Mentor to an apprentice through the Minnesota State Arts Board Folk Art Grant program in 2000, been the recipient of a McKnight/Arrowhead Regional Arts Council (ARAC) Career Opportunity Grant in 2004, and the recipient of a McKnight/ARAC Emerging Artist Fellowship in 2005.