An Introduction

During the past six months as I have worked to launch My Creative Classroom, I have often thought that many of you might wonder who I am. Why should I teach for or take classes at My Creative Classroom? Since my name is not a familiar one, I thought is was time to introduce myself. My name is Jeri Parks, I am a trainer, crafter, artist and business owner.

Like so many women before me my career can be divided into two sections; pre-children and post-children. Prior to the birth of my son I spent 15 years in the training and development industry. My last position was as a training manager for a larger university in Texas. In addition, I also owned my own training and consulting business. I love training/teaching, the first time I stood in front of a class it was coming home to a place I had never been before.

After the birth of my son I made a huge career change to meet the changing needs of my family. For the past four years I turned to my second love, crafts, as a source of income. I can't remember time when I was not involved with some type of craft. As a small child and young adult I learned and enjoyed needle crafts. Later I moved on to wood crafts and home decor. Ten years ago I discovered scrapbooking, which lead me to paper crafting, altered arts, mixed media and collage. I have been selling on Ebay under the name Moments2Memories ever since. I dearly love my customers and hope to continue selling in the future.

As my son started to need me less and less, I began to look for options to grow my business. During an unexpected relocation I had a light bulb moment, well it was more like a lightening strike. :) It was time to combine my two passions, training and crafts, but on my terms.

Local craft and art stores do a great job teaching the basics and community colleges offer some advanced courses, but I wanted more. I wanted basic, intermediate and advanced courses, facilitated by talented teachers, that I could take in my own home, where I would have access to my own craft supplies. I wanted courses the pushed me, that were interactive and used creativity in unique ways. I wanted others to come on the journey with me. I wanted teachers to be able to offer courses without having to travel and I wanted them to retain a majority of the revenue they brought in. I wanted business owners to be able to offer additional services to their customers and manufacturers to be able to education the public about their products.

And so My Creative Classroom was born. Hopefully now you know I have used a lifetime of experience, training and education to create My Creative Classroom. I hope you spend some time visiting our website, take a few courses and maybe even teach for us. It is our mission to create the best online learning experience possible.

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