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About Cheryl |
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About Cheryl |
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During my "growing up" years, I enjoyed crafts--I remember those woven potholders we'd make in school for our Mom's. I graduated from Berlin High School and then attended UW-Whitewater and earned a BS degree in teaching Business Education. The same year I graduated from Whitewater I married the man of my dreams and settled in Berlin, where I was offered a job in the Business Education Department of Berlin High School. As my husband and I settled into our marriage, I became very interested in crafts. I sewed my clothes, did string art, paint by numbers, used empty eggs to create dioramas, crocheted, did crewel work and embroidery. My loving and supportive husband, Alan, never knew what was coming next. When we began our family I resigned from teaching to be a stay-at-home Mom. A few of my crafts survived our boy's babyhood--but not many. Instead I found myself more involved in "child-raising" things. When our boys were 9 and 12 I went back to teaching at Berlin High School, and I also went back to UW-Whitewater to earn my MST degree, again with an emphasis in Business Education. Our boys grew up and graduated from college, leaving me with extra time on my hands. In 2001 a wonderful friend of mine suggested that I take up cross stitching. She gave me fabric, thread, scissors, a chart, fibers--everything I needed to get a project going. It was the beginning of a love affair with counted cross stitch. I began stitching in earnest and loved it. When a cross stitch store, Images Stitchery and Design, opened up in town I never envisioned how it would affect my life. I signed up for a needlepoint class taught by Wayne and Paula Banaszak, owners of Images. During one class session Paula mentioned that they might need someone to work the store for them on weekends when they traveled the state doing shows to promote Wayne's designs and his cross stitch frames. I said I would be interested, and I began to work a few weekends and became familiar with the inventory and the way the store was managed. When Wayne and Paula decided to sell the store so they could concentrate on Wayne's designs and his frames, I impulsively bought the store. The rest is history. Being a Business Education teacher, I have always had a yearning to own a business. I feel that God lead me to this store, and he'll see me through it's initial growth. Berlin is a small town without a lot of traffic coming into a cross stitch store, so my youngest son suggested that I develop a web site. I had a little FrontPage experience and a lot of Desktop Publishing experience from teaching, so, with the help of a friend who had done web design, I started my on-line shop. In 2005 I retired from teaching to work with Cheryl's Stitchery Nook full time. My only complaint? Not enough time to stitch! :-). |
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am the oldest of 7 children, a "pre" baby-boomer by a year or so. I've
lived in Berlin since the age of 5, but I loved the years I spent visiting
my grandfather on his farm in central Wisconsin. I have a real soft
heart for farm scenes and warm, cozy, down-home designs when searching for
a new cross stitch project. I also love samplers and projects that offer a
challenge.