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Name: Valerie Courtney
Job Title: Associate Crafts Designer
Date started at company: Started freelancing with the company in June ’07, became full time as the Editorial Crafts Assistant in February ’08. A few months later I joined the crafts product design team.
First product design you saw on shelf: Halloween 2008 treat bags, scrapbooking paper, and stickers at Michael’s craft stores
Hometown: Piscataway, NJ
Education: The Fashion Institute of Technology, BFA in Packaging Design
First Job: Counter girl at a gourmet café/market
Astrological Sign: Capricorn
Personal crafting/artwork: dotsmakediamonds.typepad.com and http://loveteenie.etsy.com
Things you collect: 1950/60’s dishware and cookbooks/household guides (I love the charming illustrations inside) and anything with polka dots
FAVORITE . . .
Color: turquoise
Holiday: Halloween in June! This has become an annual event for my friends and I. We celebrate my boyfriend’s birthday by going out in costumes like it’s Halloween in June. For the first official holiday I dressed up as a horse jockey and my boyfriend went as a superhero called “Birthday Boy!”
Pizza topping: I like my pizza topping free– it’s perfect as is
Kind of Fabric: Houndstooth
Dessert: Ice cream (cones, pops, sandwiches, you name it)
Source: Parcel (shopparcel.com)
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