| Nanci inside her first store, Pappagallo in Grand Haven MI. |
| Professional Image Consultant Color Style, Menlo Park, CA Fine Arts Grand Valley State College, MI Interior Design Massey Atlanta, GA Oil Painting Palette and Chisel, IL Porcelain artist PASS, Charleston SC |
| "Best Clothing Store in Boca." The Sun Sentinel. |
| Nanci's Life At the age of 21 Nanci opened her first retail store, a Pappagallo shoe store in Grand Haven Michigan. It soon became apparent that her flair for buying clothing over shadowed her shoe sales. Within a couple of years she purchased another store in Charlevoix Michigan. 14 years later, Nanci closed the stores and moved to California to studied at Body Beautiful, the world's premire color and image consulting school. In 1993 Nanci open another clothing boutique, this time in Boca Raton, Fl. Because of her fashion background and image/color knowledge she held mini image seminars in her boutique, teaching all about, silhouette, balance points, 10 essentials, color harmony, style etiquette and wardrobe planning. Nanci also was asked to speak about fashion, on the radio, TV, and aboard cruise ships. Her boutique repeatedly won the PEOPLE'S CHOICE AWARD for BEST CLOTHING STORE IN BOCA. After 24 years of fitting and dressing women, Nanci wanted to study portrait painting. She found the best in Chicago at the Palette and Chisel Academy of Art, where she studied with Clayton Beck and Scott Tallman Powers. Her painting Standing at the Shore, was the winning entry in one of the Palette's contest. In 2008, Nanci started painting portraits on porcelain. |
| The store on Bridge Street in Charlevoix had a beautiful view, out the back picture window was round lake. Charlevoix is still a picturesque town on the shores of Lake Michigan. We carried everything from Clarin's skin products, to swimsuits, purses, belts, shoes, nylons, dresses, sportswear and nighties. |
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