My name if Vicki Gordon and I live in Holland, Michigan. I have lived with extreme pain in my lower back, left leg and my neck for the past 13 years. I have severe nerve damage in my left leg and there is no longer anything they can do except treat my pain. I have an implanted Dorsal Column Stimulator and an implanted Morphine Pump.
Woodworking for me helps to keep me thinking positive and looking forward to the next project. It has helped get me past some serious depressions and it has helped me feel that I have a purpose. Creating a beautiful object out of a hunk of wood gives me the pleasure that doing physical things like, water skiing and snowmobiling, used to give me.
My favorite type of woodworking is Fretwork, which is what I have submitted. However, I also do segmentation, intarsia, trinket boxes, wooden baskets and refinishing old furniture. Just about anything that has to do with wood I will try. I love the feel and the smell of wood and there is nothing more pleasing that to run my finger over a beautiful piece of wood that I have just cut to be a beautiful art object!
