My Arts & Crafts Story
As a child, I began dancing Mambo/Salsa On 2 professionally with my parents Eddie and Maria Torres, but as I grew up dancing, I also remember enjoying arts and crafts, and attending different classes to learn how to make things. I did some engraving on glass, made the Chinese staircase design with plastic string, painted by number, painted freehand in school, and did some nail art.
Now, I believe that God has inspired me to revisit those arts and crafts that I once enjoyed growing up, and in addition to those art forms, I have been introduced to jewelry making, arm knitting, and loom knitting. As I was in the process of naming my Arts and Crafts business, I believe God inspired me while I was traveling by something I saw, and BAM there was the beginning of Handmade Arts 4 Christ. So I started the journey, and developed this web site where I will showcase many of the art works God inspires me to make. I do thank all of the people I’ve learned from for teaching these techniques.
I hope that you enjoy this site, and are encouraged to use your God-given gifts, talents, and skills to Glorify God, and share it with others, as well as enjoy the passion of expressing your gift the way God created you to. God Bless you.
I remember starting to paint free hand nail art designs when I was younger. I would take the thin nail art brushes in the nail art polish and begin painting nail art on my own nails when I would do dance shows or even when I just wanted to paint my nails. I also remember my younger sister, cousins, and friends coming over to our house and asking me, Nadia can you do my nails? I didn't have any formal training at that time to do nail art, I just did it because I enjoyed it and noticed that I was good at it. I then developed a nail art board like the ones I would see in the windows of nail salons, and when my family and friends wanted to get their nails done they would look at my nail board and choose their nail polish color and designs.
Later on I went to a beauty school where I began to learn about nail technology. While in class, I noticed that my favorite thing to do was to paint nail art on my own nails or on plastic nail tips. I completed the nail technology course and now I just continue to paint my own nails and enjoy painting nail art from time to time. I have also started painting press on nails that I am thinking of offer for sale.
