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Hello I am Samantha Zinnel. I hit the highlights about me on the About the Owner tab. The pic I used was from some time ago, but it always gets people riled up one way or another. The truth is I dropped something and my mother called me out. I didn't think anything about how it would come out until she showed me the pic.

I just turned 47. I have wore many hats in my time. I started out as a BOARD drafter. Yes I said BOARD. My left elbow is permanently black from propping up on it over all the graphite. I moved with the times and took to 2D CAD and then 3D CAD. I worked in the engineering for an automotive company for a good chunk of years. Then I was a stay at home mother of two until my divorce. Then I fell into the repossession business. The short of the story is the repo man showed up on my door for my friend's car. I needed a job in a bad way and had some experience from when I was a teen and my boyfriend's friend's dad owned a car lot. It was a regular Saturday night thing for us to all pile into.... get this..... a YUGO and go pick up cars that were unpaid for. We never took it as more than a game. We never took it seriously or thought of how dangerous it was. But we stopped when a repo went bad one night. But there I was 2 decades later needing to support my kids. So I asked the repo man if he was hiring. And he was. My first job was to repo my friend's car. I learned real quick how serious it was and how wrong we did it those years ago. But when it came down to it... I was great at it and I LOVED it. Just when I would get used to it and start to lose the adrenaline rush, a new situation would keep me frosty. I started a weebly blog years ago and I posted all my fun and dangerous tales of the business. https://imn4it2.weebly.com As I mention in the About the Owner tab I am bisexual. But I am and have been happily married to my Cowboy for 16 years as of July. I had become my own boss with my own accounts from local lots when I was needing a driver on the fly. Cowboy came to my rescue. I hired him and then I married him. :)

I had played with making jewelry as a hobby. And I would make people gifts. But the same year we married I started selling what i made. I have a passion for chainmaille and have since going to the ren fests in Georgia as a teen. I began to teach myself how to make chainmaille. I had a problem with a medicine my doc put me on, it caused me to have memory loss and so I began making tutorials to help me remember what I did to make certain weaves. But then I was asked to teach and I decided I rather sell my tutorials. Which I have under the tutorial tab on the shop menu.

Last year I got back into painting. I found it very therapeutic. My husband is a disable vet and struggles physically and mentally worse than I do at times. We both began doing fluid art as a therapy outlet. We sell everything we make to give us money to keep doing it as well as accept tips and donations.

For those who are partial to Etsy you can visit my sites at the following url's:

http://www.charms2chainmaille.com

https://www.etsy.com/shop/OurArtisticOutlet

Ebay store: http://www.ourartisticoutlet.net