Barbara Dutchyn:
CLASS OF 1977
Niagara District High SchoolClass of 1977
Niagara-on-the-lake, ON
Barbara's Story
Nov 1, 2010
33 years later...wow! Still haven't grown up...lol!
Quick flashback...out of High School I went to NCAAT for Advanced Interior Design for 3 years the worked at a kitchen place. Got married in '82, worked at a museum, then quit work to raise two kids.
Lived briefly in St Catharines, then back to NOTL. Kids got older, went back to work at odd jobs then lastly for Benjamin Moore.
Did some personal/commissioned art work off and on throughout the years.
Long story later, I left a 27 year marriage in Sept '09 and moved in with my sister.
I continued working for BM as well as tried to work on healing. The 'NOTL' proved non-conducive for that so I spent time in Rhode Island for most of 2010 and the beginning of 2011
March 2011, I moved back to Niagara but with the goal to move back to New England, get my own place, wor...Expand for more
k, paint and be happy.
Feb 2012
2011 saw many changes. Still working on the healing (think I always will be) though I started working for myself along with my boyfriend Alex at construction last summer. Since then we've restored 2 cupolas, redid a whole house exterior and lots of other things in between. The work is pretty physical though it's nothing an ol' farm girl can't handle.
It's good for now but there's one thing I've learned so late in life....always be open to what God has to offer. And since He has never failed me, I'm so looking forward to the ride!
Don't know if I'll make it back to New England or where I'll end up for that matter. I guess if it's where I'm supposed to be at that moment, then it's all good with me.
Hope all who read this are at an exceptional place in their lives...Cheers to all of you!
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