Diana is a gifted, highly skilled furniture artist who has been creating beautiful, unique and whimsical art furniture for years. Diana's passion to provide beautiful, artful and whimsical hardwood rocking chairs for healing was born from personal experience!

She discovered she had a life threatening illness. Diana had the "opportunity" to receive a bone marrow transplant at Oregon Health Sciences University, Portland, Oregon, to give her a second chance at life. The treatment necessitated a hospital stay of almost a month of days that challenged even wanting to get out of bed. Diana, a "rocker" from childhood, was dismayed to find that lack of funding in medical facilities meant there were no rocking chairs available for use while healing. Diana knew the hospital would require furniture appropriate for a sterile environment. She took her own rocking chair to the bone marrow unit, and, after successful treatment, donated the rocker to the unit. When she found out from staff on the unit that most of the patients wanted to use the rocker, she applied her hand painted magic to other rocking chairs and donated them to the unit. The response was wonderful and her path was created!

Diana then hand painted a rocker for the cancer unit at Dornbecher Children's Hospital, Portland, Oregon. She created a story about the magic in the rocker and how the users could "feed" the rocker with stories, songs and healing thoughts. The story was laminated and included with the rocker. Once again, the nursing staff was grateful for the comfort of having the rocker available for the patients and their parents.

While doing research, Diana discovered studies that over and over have proven there are very real emotional and physical benefits to patients who use rocking chairs.