I worked for 35 years in the fashion industry as a dress designer.  I retired 6 years ago but continued to create fashions - for my grand-daughter’s dolls.  Ella, 7, has the best dressed Barbies in town!

I am passionate about stone sculpting - for pleasure and profit - working in soapstone and alabaster - creating heads, figures, bears and abstracts.  I also hand-build ceramic bowls and vases.

My daughter, son-in-law and 2 grandchildren live in Vancouver; I visit them a couple of times a year.

You sure can’t beat retirement!

Bella Krakow Simon