About
How We Started
Debera has been doing art for as long as she can remember. She started her business 15 + years ago as a jewelry/art business where she did bazaars and shows. She then grew and started giving classes, finally, she discovered countertop epoxy and fell in love with it. When she found out that she could mimic the look of stone during countertop resurfacing and offer customers a gorgeous, durable piece of art. that was functional, she dedicated all her time to learning how to manipulate the epoxy to get the looks that she desired. Stone is very desirable for countertops yet not everyone can afford that and she, as an artist, loves realism. She focuses on making what she says “Sticky into Stone”. Our motto became “Replicate what one can not duplicate.”
Servicing Eagle River Alaska Area
Us Now
Now in 2022, Debera moved out of her little studio in her home, garage, and shop and opened up a shop in Eagle River Alaska, where she will continue to do countertops. Additionally, she offers art classes, epoxy countertop classes, countertop resurfacing, and much more, including a gift shop of products made by Debera’s Ditties ARTistic Stone Countertops and Epoxy Works.
Learn More About Debera
As a young child, Debera was raised in the woods at the northern tip of Montana in a very rural area. She went to a one-room school, with one teacher from first grade through eighth grade in that one room with the same teacher. They had no TV or anything like that. Debera’s imagination and nature were what she had to entertain herself, which she believes, and is very thankful for, and is why she is the way she is today. She has a mind that never shuts off for creativity and she’s very passionate about being creative. Debera loves to build, make and change things. Most of all she loves to create art that mimics nature. If she paints, it has to be as realistic as possible. If she builds something it has to be exactly as she imagined it. If Debera carves or does a statue, it has to be realistic. As a child, Debera doesn’t remember having many crayons, pens, and such, but she loved to smash rocks into a fine powder, then add huckleberries for color, then paint rocks. Or take a leaf and rub the green off the leaf onto a rock. It’s funny how one looks back and can see that those little things in life were the building blocks of what makes you who you are. Debera loves color. She doesn’t just see green when she sees a tree. She sees it for all the colors it has, for all the colors it takes to make that shade of green, the shadows, and its imperfections. Debera loves to do art but found a deeper love in helping others find their artistic abilities. She gets more joy from helping others, who felt they have no ability to create anything and showing them they can.
“I am a mother of three wonderful grown kids. I chose to raise my kids including homeschooling, for the most part, giving them all of me and my attention and my life because they are the best creation that I have been given. As they grew and left home I then became a full-time determined to be a successful artist and that has led me to now, a successful epoxy countertop resurfacing artist/business in Eagle River Alaska. I’m very grateful for who I am and where I am and thank God and my husband for being behind me and helping me get here today.” – Debera