Kathy Monkman has had a life long love affair with design and has a reputation for conjuring up beautiful things for next to no cost. She has been in the design, manufacturing and craft show field for 24 years. Kathy has exhibited in such craft shows as, “One of a Kind” and has sold design concepts to multinational companies. She has been featured in decoration magazines and news casts including: the Ottawa Citizen, House and Home, Midday, CBC News and Regional Contact.

She began teaching rustic twig making at St. Lawrence College in Brockville in 1993 and has since taught workshops for the Board of Education in both Ottawa and Toronto. She has expanded her love of crafts workshop, teaching it in several community colleges in Ontario, and has inspired students from Eastern Ontario all the way to Northern New York.

Kathy uses simple tools to equip students with principles that will enable them to put their creativity to work and independently build a variety of great projects. Her workshops generate wonderful reviews as they stress high creative output in a compressed time frame with minimal costs. To date she has coached nearly 1900 students in the whimsical art of twig craft. She resides in Ottawa where she continues to make peoples homes look good – both inside and out.