In her two years in Virginia, besides working in a restaurant and a dentist's office, she studied jewelry design on the weekends. After a while she began to set up a stall at roving arts-and-crafts shows, selling earrings, rings, necklaces, and the like. Inspired by the work of Tsai Er-ping, she created her own unique style, often making pieces out of cardboard and little odds and ends.
在維吉尼亞的兩年多，她除了在餐館、牙醫診所工作，還利用週末去學珠寶設計，學得差不多了，就到週末流動的 art craft show 上擺攤位，賣耳環、戒指、項鍊等小飾品。