About Me

Alicia Paulson loves to make things. She loves making dresses, garden parties, crocheted dog sweaters, embroidered pillowcases, invitations, and model horse tack. She loves making twig fences, rock borders, tags for her products, photo albums, and cozy guest rooms. She loves cooking dinner for friends, painting chandeliers, and making pretty baby presents. She writes about herself in third person whenever she has to write autobiographical information because she is really quite shy.

In 2000, Alicia left her 9-to-5 job as a book editor and started Posie: Rosy Little Things, a one-woman production studio that designs and creates one-of-a-kind handbags, accessories, crochet-wear, and original gifts. From 2003 through August 2006, she co-owned Ella Posie, a brick-and-mortar boutique showcasing the work of many handmade designers. These days she sells her work exclusively through her web shop (click button at left), and is currently writing and photographing a book of original sewing projects called STITCHED IN TIME: MEMORY-KEEPING PROJECTS TO SEW AND SHARE, which will be published by Potter Craft in the fall of 2008.

Born and raised in River Forest, Illinois, she now lives in Portland, Oregon, with her husband, Nurse of the Year Andy Paulson, R.N.; two cats; the memory of Audrey, the cutest Cardigan Welsh corgi the world has ever known; and puppy Clover Meadow, the second cutest.