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Michelle Dompierre Southern, October 2010 - Photo ©2010 by Mike Southern

If you've ever received a Virtual Cocktail @the Mmmartini Lounge, you're already familiar with Michelle Dompierre Southern's artwork, design, and devotion to kitsch. Michelle is a trained Pharmacy Technician who specialized in compounding and alternative medicine before veering off that career path in favour of the more creative arts. She has contributed articles and columns about photography, cocktails, graphic design, music and bands, and needlework arts. Her hardcover book, which she also illustrated, Dessert Cocktails: Classic and Contemporary After-Dinner Drinks was published in 2007 by award-winning pop culture publisher Collectors Press. She is also a composer, having written almost 100 songs for 9 CDs, and has donated her songs and production skills to benefit CDs to raise funds for local charities. Visit Songs For Haunted Houses for a sampling of her instrumentals.

Michelle has been an avid and passionate stitcher for over 20 years. She is an accomplished cross-stitch and silk ribbon embroidery artist, creating original patterns and designs as well as courses to teach silk ribbon embroidery. She was a First Place prize ribbon recipient for Native Indian beadwork in First Nations Arts contest and art exhibition. Michelle has designed many original patterns, templates, and kits for needlework, quilting, and crochet. As an avid and passionate quilter, she has sewed more than 50 projects in less than one year, creating new patterns and discovering new techniques for innovative results. Her mantra is Think outside the blocks and encourages visitors to contribute their own ideas, comments, and suggestions (you can contact her at XmdscreatesX@gmail.com).