Her son's special needs also helped push Alicia into her art as a way of satisfying both her creative urges and real life issues.

"I need to work but can't afford specialized day care. Mostly because of different therapy appointments and no job would work around my crazy schedule. So I'm doing what I love and trying to make it in to a business."

What was once her workroom has since been converted to her son's bedroom, so Alicia had to make a few adjustments when considering her workspace, although the tools of her trade have remained the same.

"I work on the back half of my kitchen table and have had to become very creative with storage. My basic work table consists of my self-healing cutting mat, a pasta machine, an eight-inch by eight-inch box with three drawers, which has an open-top pencil holder on top where I keep razor blades, toothpicks, sculpting tools, super glue and wire. An Acrylic rod, I guess, is my most outlandish tool, and I have a roll of tin foil that I make into any shape to do what I want it to do."