Us is me.  Wooden It Be Loverly is an evolution.  Many years ago, I began to continue a family tradition in working with wood.   Living a small rural community, I billed myself out as 'Compatable, Etc.'  The play on words was Come Pat Able, meaning that I was easy to get along with and able to do the job.  Working with wood and doing the projects that no 'real' carpenter would do gained me a reputation.  The one I heard, said that I was unique in that I did what people wanted done.  My motto was then, and is now, HAVE HAMMER WILL TRAVEL.  The only difference being that I prefer to travel without putting the hammer to work.

Wooden It Be Loverly took over the carpentry and added puzzles and other marketable items.  All of this time, I 'worked' as well at a real job.  When I retired from teaching, I began to pursue other options.  It was then that INTARSIA found me.

I took the basic class offered by Judy Gale Roberts and Jerry Booher in April of 2005.  It seemed then, and seems now, that I had found my calling as a woodworker.  I traveled back to Tennessee again in October of 2005 to learn to put wrinkles in wood.  I returned recently to simply learn whatever Judy and Jerry wanted to teach me.  The lion, Aslan, you see on this site is the product of that last trip.