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Yellow House Studio
Polymer Clay Products Everything you'd ever want to know about me
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Karin Von Berg Noyes
Born in Ithaca, NY, youngest of four children. Father a professor at Cornell.
Traveled with family on three sabbatical years: Holland on a freighter (age 2), New Mexico in a VW bus (age 9) and Australia on a jet plane (age 16).
Favorite Christmas present: Raw materials for "making things" (colored paper, glue, wire, yarns, fabric, pipe cleaners).
Favorite camp activity: Arts and Crafts.
Went to Ithaca High School. Was made to take too many academic courses. Became a jock (running). Graduated 1976.
Went to Middlebury College. Became more of a jock (running and Nordic skiing). Majored in Biology. Spent all van rides to meets/races knitting wildly colored hats and sweaters. Graduated 1981.
Spent a year in Norway. Studied Norwegian folk art. Learned Rosemaling, a folk art form of painting on wood. Knit some great Norwegian sweaters. Skied a lot. Learned Norwegian.
Married an artist (from Middlebury, not Norway). Sewed jackets and bags in a leather store. 1983.
Began a family. Moved my color/ pattern interest to quilt making. 1985.
Artist became an art teacher. Moved to a prep school. 1986. Pretended I was still a jock. Coached running and skiing. Had more kids (three total). 1989.
Discovered Polymer Clay. 1994.
Loved working with the colors and techniques of polymer clay. Read books, took workshops, started a crafts business with a friend. 1996.
Left friend and business. 1998. Started own craft business part time as I made money in my office job. 2000.
Quit day job. Named business Yellow House Studio. Bought our first house. 2001.
Showed at Baltimore ACC show. Business went wild. 2002.
Sent first kid to college. Resurrected the house into livable quarters. 2003.
Lived in resurrected house. Worked at the end of an extension cord in an out building. Artist/husband on sabbatical converting the barn to a studio. 2004.
Moved into the beautiful studio with a view towards the mountains. 2005.
Youngest child graduating from high school, oldest from college. Have added chickens to the menagerie. A sad family year for my children - losing two grandfathers. 2006.
Winner of an Award of Excellence at the Baltimore ACC Show in February. 2007.
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