Well I think I’d, I’d always loved fabrics and texture and putting things together. It was just, I was very drawn to that. I can say my, dad being the mechanical engineer that he is, and he's like, well, you're going to college, you're going to study business or engineering. So my desire to be, you know, to be an interior, a degreed designer or a fashion, you know, in that, in those realms of college, he, he was not really agreed upon to fund that. So I had to make my way.

But I'd always had a passion. I'd always worked in the retail environment, in gift shops - or clothing stores, whatnot. And when I was in college, I would do store displays, windows, for dress shops. And when I was in school in Bryan College Station, there was this window display that I would do. Well the menswear store said, well, will you do ours? And then the furniture store down the way said, who's doing that? well, would you come down here and work with us? And I did. And it stuck. And I ended up being, I did design work for a lot of clients, in their homes. Then I ended up being a, the buyer. And did their marketing, did their TV commercials, things like that. So I was in the furniture business for over, over 20, or close to 20 years here in Tyler.

I started in high school working for the little dress shop in Rockdale, Texas, and I was doing the windows and dressing the mannequins and all of that type of stuff. It's, it's just really interesting how it's kind of, this part of my life and career has come full circle, and I'm still dressing mannequins and in fact, we, we just turned the display yesterday in this, in the museum. So.

Tyler Rose Museum