She considers her highest artistic achievement being a really good elementary art teacher and in 2005 she was named elementary art educator of the year by the Massachusetts Art Education Association. When she is not thinking about lessons and and how to help children create, she has been embroidering skulls inspired by sugar skull imagery. A public album of finished skulls can be found on Facebook, and during Open Studios the pieces will be on display and for sale at the Boston Cheese Cellar in Roslindale Square.