Yankee Burrow Creations

Like most every other artist I know, I grew up with an artist parent. Nana (my mom) was a very active artist back in the 60’s and 70’s, and entered in all kinds of art shows in Western New York. The biggest one was the Allentown Art Festival, and I loved it! Being surrounded by artists was one of the best parts of my childhood. Nana’s medium of choice was pastels, and during the art shows, she would drape a cloth over the table that held her items, and I would just lay under there with my own pad and an old cigar box full of her mostly used pastels. The box and pastels had been passed down to her from her uncle, so it was very special. I still have it, and the 3 drawer unit she kept her pastels in….I loved, and still love, to just open the drawer and look at all the colors.

As a young mother, I traded in my pastels and pencils and paints for yarn, simply because knitting and crochet was much easier to do with small children running around. Every year my children, and neices and nephews, got handmade gifts for their birthdays and Christmas. Later, I handmade special gifts for our grandchildren, and now for the great grandchildren. But my dream is to go back to my pastels and paint. In fact, my wonderful hubby gave me a wonderful oil paint set for Christmas a few years ago, and it’s still waiting for me. It’s been so long, I’m almost afraid to start again.

Personal info…

I’m a 50 something stay at home mom, which has been my calling, and joy, all of my life. I married my best friend Chuck 19 years ago (he’s older then me, that’s how I got all these grand and great grand kids, lol). He has 5 grown kids, I have 3 grown kids, and we adopted our 11 year old daughter in 2008. Together (mostly his kids) we have 13 grandchildren, and 5 (soon to be 6) great grandchildren. We are also therapeutic foster parents, and during the past 9, or so, years, we have opened our home and hearts to 14 at risk children. It has not always been an easy home life, but one we consider our ministry.

History of Yankee Burrow Creations

A few years ago, my husband built me an art studio on our property, probably so he could have the closets back, lol. Needless to say, that 2 story studio is filled with stuff! I have a place for my sewing machine and 6+ totes of fabric, a place for all my yarn and needles and hooks, a place upstairs for beads and wire, and of course, my painting corner. I consider myself an artist with ADD since I have yet to meet a craft I didn’t like. My daughter Amanda moved to Kansas with her family, and it was while she was living in Kansas that we decided to start our on-line business together. We started out on Etsy as Our Home To Yours, but last year, after Amanda and crew moved back home, we decided to get super serious about our business, and Amanda, who has her masters degree in graphic design and is very interested in advertising, started our rebrand, and to acknowledge that we are New Yorkers now living in North Carolina, we became Yankee Burrow Creations.

Our shops and links

We are using our blog right now to tie everything together, but will eventually have a “real” website. so this is our blog / site, that’s also were I have re-discovered my love of writing, and have started YBC story time. I am now archiving my completed stories

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