About Me

My name is Rita, or as I call myself Rita the Beader (haha).  I'm a newlywed twenty-something year old currently residing on the lovely Pacific island of Guam.  I am from northwestern New Jersey (and no, it's not like Jersey Shore).  I've been on Guam for five months for a getaway of sorts from my life in NJ.  I met my husband here at a little Japanese restaurant.  We were engaged within four weeks; I like to call it love at second sight.  He is in the Navy and is being transferred to Connecticut in just two weeks, so we'll be leaving Guam behind!  
I've always been a creative person.  From drawing to designing my room as a teenager to knitting and making friendship bracelets for my friends, art has been my thing for as long as I can remember. All the women in my family do some type of art/craft.  Both my grandmothers sew, my mom sews and makes jewelry and gourding, my Aunt Janice is an expert crocheter (she can look at an item and write up the instructions for making it and did so for a magazine), my Aunt Dolores has done everything from jewelry making to gourding and is currently an awesome knitter, and my Aunt Mary knit and crocheted and made wood art.  I guess it runs in the family!!  

Me and the hubby.

xRita