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CREATIVITY RUNS IN HER FAMILY My family didn't have a TV or electronic stuff, so I was very much a nature kid. I grew up in Spruce Pine, North Carolina, a very small, conservative town that was limiting in a lot of ways. It felt like my family were the outsiders because they’re free-spirited, artsy and creative. My mum

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