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Melissa Coventry
Many of you may have met Melissa, the owner of Legacy Paper Arts, at a
scrapbook convention. Melissa started scrapbooking at a young age
with her Mrs. Grossman’s sticker albums (oh come on, you know you all
had them, LOL). But soon college and graduate school took her away
from her passions (a little known fact about Melissa is that she has a
Masters in Biomedical Sciences, which is a combination degree in
physiology, pharmacology and cell and molecular biology as well as a
MBA).
Once she settled down to have children, she came back to scrapbooking
with a passion. Since she did not want to go back to working the
crazy hours of a MBA after having her first child, she started thinking
about other business ideas. This lead to the creation of Legacy Paper
Arts in May 2004. Melissa is the designer of all the products
on the website. She has two boys (hence all the “boy”
products) and a husband of 11 years who is the winemaker at www.DeTierraVineyards.com.
Michelle Gayhart
Michelle began working for Legacy Paper Arts in September 2005. She has
been there for the crazy times and the sane times. Her main job is to
help Melissa realize if designs are practical or not since she is the one
who cuts the design files and packages the kits (Melissa has been known to
get carried away in the design department at times, LOL).
Michelle is a student at California
State University
at Monterey Bay
and is a Business Major. One day she hopes to open up her own business,
too. She is also a Resident Advisor for the Substance Free dorms at CSUMB.
She may only have two girls on her floor, but she does whatever she can to
bring some arts and crafts into the lives of the boys on her floor.
Elizabeth Betts
Elizabeth is Melissa’s
mother and convention buddy. She travels around to all the
conventions with Melissa, tolerating the questionable hotels and road
food. Plus, she has to carry all those heavy boxes laden with
product. Although, if you ask her, she will say moving the grid wall
(the 2x8 feet metal grids that make up the walls of the convention booths)
is the worst thing EVER. Once again, a mother’s love knows no
bounds. She says all this is worth it for the fun of hanging out with
all you crazy scrapbookers and spending time with daughter.
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