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conversations.value: Give me a description for a story titled Things That Matter about Acrylic, Shanna, Phillip with the genre: Parenting & Relationships.
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conversations.value: the author's writing emerged in her teens in the form of poetry. A number of years later she began writing short stories. The arts have always been an influence in the author's life in one form or another. After her mother introduced oil pints to her at the age of five the love for painting continued to grow. Acrylic is her current medium of choice used to teach art in private and group settings. This multi-talented author has done radio ads, commercial ads for a popular golf magazine, commissioned murals and canvas art pieces for private collections, painted pop-art furniture, made innovative wall hangings, has done background props for play productions, entertained students while encouraging literacy awareness, as well as doing designer art as a nail tech. Shanna and her husband Phillip have been married for 10 years and enjoy their quiet life in a small west Texas town with all the amenities it has to offer. They share a blended family of four girls and five grandchildren. She plans to continue doing what she is doing right now; writing, painting and playing dress up as Periwinkle Von Skittlebaum, the real live fairy godmother that encourages kids.