Bio

Hello! My name is Frances Lucas. My friends call me Kay and my family calls me Kitty. I graduated from Wooster High School in 2005 and now live in Massillon with my husband, Eldon. We took a trip to Chicago last year and this is us at the top of Willis Tower (formerly Sears Tower). Eldon and I have been together for seven years, married for about three and a half. I started college right after high school, but in the fall of 2006 we had a house fire and I had to drop out. Eldon was the one who really pushed me to go back to school and he is still my main motivation to finish school.



I am going to graduate with a double major in English and Education (high school English), but in the meantime I am a manager at the Pier 1 Imports in Canton. During the semester most of my time is dedicated to school and work, but in my precious spare time I love to quilt and target shoot. Quilting is my creative outlet. I love that even if I mess up, no one knows but me! Traditionally, quilts had what was called a "humility square". It was a block that was intentionally made imperfect because only God could create perfection. This means that there is no pressure to do everything perfectly, just enjoy creating. I think this is a great philosophy for quilting and for life. When there is no expectation for perfection then people can be themselves. The quilt below is one I completed last year and it is one of my favorites. The blocks are each only three inches square and it took me six months to complete. It was the most difficult quilt that I had ever adventured and I loved every minute of it!

If quilting is the soft side of me, the target shooting must be the harder side. Time at the range or out hunting has always been a common fun-time activity for me and my dad. Eldon joined the Army 2 years ago and he enjoys shooting right along side us. In the past I have been deer hunting and goose hunting, but a majority of time we just head to the range for a handgun version of 21. Shooting gets pretty expensive, but we get out as much as possible. It has been about four years since I last went deer hunting and I really miss it, I plan on getting out again this fall.

One last important aspect to my life are my doggies. They make up the children of our current little family and they are all my babies. Our first puppy was Emmie. She is a dalmatian and she was born in Georgia. Her breeder, Joni Shoup of Starwood Dalmatians, has been a close friend of mine since I was a child. My mother owns Emmie's father, Rebel, who has always been a favorite pooch of mine. The next addition to our family situation was Marabelle, a Tree Walking Coonhound. She came from the Wayne County Humane Society and is about the same age as Emmie. Marabelle was starved when we got her, but with love and training she has proven to be a real sweetheart and an interesting addition in the household. She is quite possibly the most frustrating dog I have come across, but she can easily make you forget it with her big eyes and droopy ears. The latest, and largest of the doggies is Bronze. Eldon calls him "Bubba". Bronze is a 72 pound Weimaraner born only 2 weeks after Emmie. He came from my family's breeding program. My family has been showing dogs and breeding Weimaraners for over 30 years and they are my favorite breed. Bronze ended up with us after a home didn't work out. He was supposed to go back to my mother's house about four years ago. He is not your normal Weimaraner and when he came to us he was scared of just about everything. His personality has grown in the past couple years and he has mostly broken out of his terrified state. He is the perfect counterpart to round out our little family.

This is Emmie...

... and Bronze...

... and Marabelle!

Other interesting facts: - I have 2 years of seamstress training. - I played the flute for 8 years in school and taught lessons for beginners for a while. - I hate baked goods and chocolate, but I am great at homemade bread (weird, I know.) - We own enough books to start a small library (Eldon reads about 3 books a week!) - Eldon and I met at the movie theater where we both worked. - I have been described as "annoyingly perky" and "high on life" (no drugs necessary) - Kids are a couple years in coming, but I want a girl named Edith after the main character in Louisa May Alcott's The Inheritance.

I think that's about it... me in a nutshell!

Now to the important stuff... my ideas about education! I know that there is still much for me to learn... but here's the essay I wrote to get into the College of Education. It sums me up pretty well at the moment.