As a student of the arts for over 50 years, Deborah's creative endeavors have included:
   - Knitting and crochet
   - Sewing, quilting, needlepoint, counted cross-stitch and crewel
   - Throwing and hand-building pottery
   - Directing and performing in musicals, operettas, cabarets and choirs
   - Sculpting polymer clay 
   - Painting watercolor, oils, and folk art
   - Writing and photography
   - Facilitating creative recovery/discovery groups. 

Retired from a 30-year career in management consulting, Deborah now focuses
full time on what she loves most - fiber arts, pottery and music. As the founder of
dj’s touch, she encourages the creation of art through her www.djstouch.com website and Aurora, Colorado studio boutique.

In the fiber arts arena, Deborah fell in love with loom knitting because it eliminates the challenge of consistent yarn tension, making it easier and faster than needle knitting and crochet but just as versatile and creative. She provides individual and small group instruction and develops her own loom knitting designs - creating everything from hats and scarves to purses and kimonos.

Deborah was born with a passion for fashion and became smitten with sewing during her first 7th grade home economics class.
While her consulting career moved sewing off the radar for
30 years, she is now back in full swing designing, creating and teaching. Deborah specializes in quilt-as-you-go techniques that provide the immediate gratification of finished pieces - not a stack of quilt tops in a closet waiting months and years to be
completed. By far, her favorite sewing is wearable art fashion - where she produces unique interpretations of patterns from today's hottest designers.




Trained by master potters Louis "Barry" MacHale III and Marianne McKee, Deborah creates original pottery as a member of the Aurora Potters Guild using a variety of clays, glazes and firing techniques.

In addition to performing with the Prairie Unitarian Universalist Choir, Deborah served as Musical Director and Assistant Stage Director for the Fall 2007 Eagle Bend Players' production of Oklahoma.