My name is Stacey Thompson and I have been creating for what seems to be my entire life. There have been three very creative women in my life that have instilled a creative nature in me - my mom and both of my grandmas. I learned how to sew, cross-stitch, crochet and make jewelry at a very young age. My sister and I always seemed to have plenty of craft items surrounding us growing up (Thanks, Dad, for always buying us all of the craft supplies we ever needed!) My first introduction to a sewing machine was probably when I was about eight years old. My mom taught my sister and I how to sew our own shorts. I remember how much fun it was to pick out the fabric for our custom clothing.

I was reintroduced to sewing on a visit back home to my parents' house several years ago. I had given my mom a new Amy Butler purse pattern and we stayed up all hours of the night sewing purses to give as gifts (and a few for ourselves as well). I got my own sewing machine from my mother-in-law (who happens to be an amazing quilter) for Christmas that same year and the rest is history.

Gentry Night Studios was named after my favorite nephew. One day he told my sister, "Mommy, I'm an orange owl and my name is Gentry Night." How cute is that! My nephew loves owls and so do I. My first creation was, of course, an orange owl named Gentry Night.