Latoya Lovely works in Special Education for Portland Public School District, she is also a dance instructor. She has

been drawing ever since she was a kid- when her heart would skip a beat to find a clean, blank space on the back

of her school work, even if it meant being reprimanded because she wasn't actually doing her school work. As an 

adult she began with small paintings, then scaled down to greeting cards because she would get frustrated not

seeing the end in sight. Isn't it funny how we try to control the wild horses of our gifts when we're afraid of the

unknown. Friends encouraged her to create bigger pieces as they stated her cards were mini

masterpieces. So she was brave, and she listened. Her dream house will have a bay window for her and her baby

boy to curl up in and read whilst listening to the rain.