What is it about childhood? Growing up, my family wasn’t storybook perfect. We had our stresses and strains, but….my childhood was magical!

Magical in that, just as for every child, those few set-apart years were spent thinking and dreaming, playing and testing things out – discovering the world through my enchanted, childlike understandings – in a way that only children can.  And only for a while.

You see, the magic of childhood isn’t about circumstances. Childhood is a distinct state of being. And it’s a gift.

We can’t go back….that protective veil of earnest innocence and wonder is only meant to last a little while, then it melts away.

But one of the beauties of life is that, through our own children, and the little ones around us, we can remember – and glimpse – that magic again for ourselves, if only briefly. (Have you ever felt that?!)

And this is what my designs are all about: realizing that children are in their own magical world, and that we were once there, too.