My Story

My love affair with moldings and appliqués started when I owned and renovated a mansion in Newport Rhode Island. No sighing here,  it sounds so much more glamours than it really was. Honest!

You see the word stuck in there “renovation.”  Read that as hard work and a lot more money than you planned. We had a ball room with a badly water damaged roof. All of the lovely plaster moldings had been ruined.

I spent the summer working with an art teacher from RISDI taking castings, making plaster molds, glueing them on the ceiling and then gold leafing them. I went through two pairs of prescription glasses covered with little bits of gold and my neck was in pain for months.

Fast forward two decades and two husbands   We are in New Zealand having drinks with my artist friend Margaret Wooly

I ask Margaret, where did you get that lovely mirror? Answer “ I made it dear”, Response yes Margaret I know you painted it but where did you find it with all those wood carvings?

In response to this she got up, and  came back a min later with a grungy brown paper bag, the bottom was falling out of it, and it was filled with two and three year old latex bits. I used these she said!

That was my first look at an Efex, and I was mesmerized.  Of course for her mirror Margret the creative had cut them up so all I was looking at was the cut up leftovers.

Before we left New Zealand we were the US distributors, within 6 months worldwide, and a year later we bought the company. 🙂  Now I am Efex.