vICKI LOVE
IMMEDIATE PAST PRESIDENT
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Her earliest and best memories revolve around her love for nature and it’s beauty.  During childhood most of Vicki's free time was spent in the woods playing, fantasizing and meditating.  These lasting impressions are reflected in her work today.  For over 40 years, she has exhibited in fine arts festivals; spending the first eleven of those years pioneering technique of sculpting leather to create form and texture.  This is an extensive technique in which the leather is put through a process of wetting and heating to mold and finished by gluing and sewing.  This technique is used in her sculptural designs allowing to create  three-dimensional pieces with the leather and texture to her one-of-a-kind handbags. In the final process, the handbags and garments are adorned with antler, horn, glass beads, vintage pieces, and semi-precious stones.  
Vicki works exclusively with deerskin, because in her experience, it is truly the best leather.  Deerskin is a premium leather for clothing and accessories.  It has a very soft ,rich and luxurious  feel but has the highest tensile strength of any leather..  Deerskin has an open grain surface so it breathes ,flexes and conforms to your body.  If deerskin leather gets wet,  it will return to its original soft condition, which makes it easier to clean.
Vicki's desire is that her work makes people happy. "It is pure joy to me when something I have made is cherished as someone’s favorite thing. I believe that in using it, the owner will have more joy and radiate this to those they come in contact with".   She is also a member of other professional guilds.