Welcome to alterEgo Designs!    

By day I am an executive assistant for Mohawk Industries in the Southwest Region of the US, but my creativity and passion lies in sewing.  I learned to sew when I was about 19 and received a sewing machine for Christmas.  I had no idea what to do with the thing, but I had an infant son that outgrew clothes so fast and I needed to learn.  My mother was very instrumental (and patient) in the process of teaching me to sew.

I started out with everyday clothes for me and my little boy, and also made some simple home décor items.  After a few years, my time for sewing dwindled as I entered the world of full-time employment.  It was not until 1999 when living in Abilene, Texas that I become not only interested in sewing again, but also in period garb.  A friend of mine is a professional seamstress and her specialty was period costumes.  I modeled an Elizabethan gown at a local fashion show and was hooked.  I commissioned her to make me a few gowns and then tried my hand at my own when I moved to another city.  I did very well on my first try, winning a costume contest at the Texas Renaissance Faire in October 2001.  Since then I’ve made a closet full of costumes for myself and have had the honor of being an exclusive seamstress for a few regular faire attendees in the Dallas area.

I’m a constant work in progress and love to learn new techniques and designs.   My goal and focus is to create garments to reveal the hidden person in all of us.  Clothing should be an expression of our own unique personality, not a carbon copy of everything else out there.  My items are unique and one of a kind, not mass produced.  How else can one express their "alter ego"?