Paula Hardesty is a mixed media artist from Louisville, Kentucky. She is a proficient self-taught soldering artist who makes her craft easy to learn. She has been teaching in the Tri-State area for about 6 years. Her classes are always sold out and students walk away with the confidence and expertise to soldier on their own. She started her journey by walking into a rubber stamp store one day and discovered her dream had come true. That there really was a Santa Claus Virginia. From then on it has been full steam ahead. Paula is happily married with two teenage girls, the oldest travels with her as her assistant and is an aspiring artist herself - better known as Vanna. Paula’s other love is fishing with her husband and photography of newborns.