While still employed full time, I started creating my original photo notecard business using images that I had collected of beautiful beaches and gardens, local visitor sites, area and regional vineyards, and inspirational excursions to the islands of Hawaii, Bali, and Grand Cayman, the countries of Italy and Spain and travels throughout the U.S. This led to a wonderful evolving journey of sharing these images on notecards, acrylic magnets, boxed cards, and gift enclosure cards with gift shops, wineries, hotels, and specialty stores where they have been selling successfully since 2002.