The Plain Dealer
Slated for Success, 1999

“While all the tools and equipment Susie, and of late, Nancy, use in the production shop are state of the art, it's still the weathered, earth-toned, old slate that draws people to their products.”

“We really liked her things, especially her benches and mirrors because we'd never seen slate used the way she was using it. But her things weren't just well-crafted,” Sylvia Ullman (of American Craft Gallery) said, “they were totally functional too...That meant,” she added, “that they were very saleable.”

“Over and over again,” said Susie, “people tell us that it's that organic quality, that ability to bring the outdoors inside.”...“With something that's useful, too” added Nancy, "that people like.”