Connie Sheerin has crafted in one way or another for as long as she can remember. Although she majored at Loyola University in Communications, she earned spending money by doing pastel portraits and decoupage projects.

While lolling for her first "real" job, she took a night school class in crafts. The instructor, who owned a small craft shop was looking for a manager, and hired Connie. Connie stayed in the crafts industry designing, demonstrating and teaching, until her daughter, Alicia was born. Wanting to be a stay-at-home mom in the 70’s, Connie staged in-home craft parties, ran holiday craft sales at her home, and sold her design work to different manufacturers.

After she divorced, Connie wanted to be with her daughter as much as possible, so she began a program called "Crafts ala Cart", an in-patient crafts program in 10 area hospitals. She and several friends then opened a retail store, "Crafts ala Cart Studio", offering an array of crafts supplies and classes.

In the 1980’s, Connie started another business called "Connie’s Candy Parties", at home chocolate candycrafting parties and branched out to do wholesale throughout the United States as a distributor to the small craft shops, popular that decade. It was also during this time that she taught for 5 years 3 to 4 times a year on cruise ships teaching craft classes, while traveling throughout the world.

During this time, Connie began doing live TV in the Philadelphia area as the Crafts Lady, bringing viewers a new craft each week. Eventually, she was producing, writing. Directing and starring in five-minute craft segments called "Connie’s Craft Quickies", which she marketed to over 50 TV stations throughout the country.

In the 80’s and 90’s she continued to do many of the craft TV shows including, Home Matters, Handmade by Design, Willard Scott’s Farm & Garden Journal, Lynette Jennings, The Carol Duvall Show, and even appeared several times on The Rosie O’Donnell Show.

In the mid 90’s Connie worked in public relations and marketed special events. She also worked for President Clinton as one of three Directors in the United States to do the first Americorps programs in Peekskill, New York.

Finally tiring of the travel and fast pace in marketing, she moved back to Lansdowne and resurrected "Crafts ala Cart" in a new venue as a craft teaching program on-line. She worked that business for several years until some health problems urged her to turn the business over to her partners who closed the business a year later.

She has authored several books of the years which include, "The Art of Candycrafting",

Creative Mosaics, Mosaics in an Afternoon, Backyard Mosaics, Memory Keepsakes and Mosaic Designs. She is at present, working on two more books, one featuring polymer clay, which is, at present, one of her passions.

Connie teaches polymer clay classes in many new and different ways, most recently at "The Bead Garden" and "Blue Santa Beads"

She will be speaking at MLBS on polymer clay techniques that lend themselves to jewelry making and will be sharing some of the new ideas that will be in her new books coming out in 2008.