A life-long serial crafter, I love all things fiber, which I define broadly to include beads and wire, for glass is a fragile fiber and wire a stiff fiber. My crafty endeavors currently include spinning my own yarns, knitting that hand-spun yarn, sewing, making cards, taking photos, creating collages in altered book and journal form, making jewelry.

My first craft was drawing on the walls. I was probably 4 years old. As I grew up, I tried out the following arts and crafts, in order as best I can recall: sewing in 7th grade with Mrs. Agner, whom my father, West Point graduate and Captain in the US Army, called a drill sargent. For high school graduation, I received my first SLR camera, which began my love of photography. In college, I studied dance, theater and art history, was a stage manger, a lighting & costume designer, and morel mushroom in a modern dance short program.

After college and settling into the world of full-time administrative employment, I began knitting, crochet, spinning, wire-wrapped jewelry, collage, altered books, and journaling. I've dabbled in cross stitch, needlepoint, aromatherapy, and probably one or two crafts I've completely forgotten about.
For the time being, this site will point to my other web pages.  Perhaps some day, probably after retirement, I'll have the time to put into learning HTML code and make a snazzy website.  Of course, by then, it won't be HTML.  And maybe, just maybe, we'll have hover cars and roving gangs of post-Apocalyptic punks joy-riding in their suped up uber-Jeeps wielding spikey baseball bats bashing unwary Sunday drivers and stealing their fuel.  Ah, the future.  How long must we wait?

When I'm not crafting or waiting for the oft-promised Apocalypse, I spend my copious spare time working a full-time job at a cancer research center ('curing cancer through paperwork,' as one colleague says), reading, playing go and seeing all manner of films. Korean and Bollywood films are the current cinematic obsession. I love movies that include a Marx brother, Chaplin, Danny Kaye, film noir.  While American movies of the 30s and 40s are among my favorites, some modern film faves include: Moon, How to Cook Your Life, and Twilight Samurai.

I love all things hand crafted and believe that everyone has an artist inside so let it out to play, once in a while.

Happy crafting!
Anne Thompson, Tenuki Handcrafts








Browse the virtual pillow book:
Journal of my projects (my blog)
Things that Catch My Eye (my Flickr site)
Friends of Tuva
American Sewing Guild
Knitter's Guild of America
Craft Yarn Council of America
You Know It's Wrong, But You Do It Anyway
Got Stones?
Indian, init?

Contact me: anne@tenukihandcrafts.com