Mary Tiegreen is a designer and writer living in the Hudson Valley. In addition to creating numerous books, she has been involved in the creation of dinnerware and related products for Pistoulet and Villa della Luna being sold by Pfaltzgraff. Her upcoming book with Jana Kolpen, "The Circle of Kindness," will be accompanied by a whimsical and wonderful line of Irish dishes and giftable ceramics. She loves making things, harmonizing, photographing flowers, listening to birds, B.B. King, ketchup on toast, the colors of the desert, good friendships, astrology, postcards, the smell of a pine forest, ebay, freedom, all sizes of dogs but especially her own, and believes that we all need to laugh a lot more than we do. She is also a terrible joke teller.

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