Barbara enjoys working with a variety of media, including polymer clay and art plastic. She has always loved colorful things as well as symmetry in design. Those two attributes tend to draw her eye when she is going about her daily life. She has always felt a strong drive to create things. Even when she was very young, she would make posters to celebrate a relative's birthday. She got involved with polymer clay because of the versatility of the material and the many things she eventually learned one could do with it.

Sometimes an idea will come to Barbara suddenly, and she will ruminate about it for hours; developing the idea in her head before attempting it with materials. Trial and error are techniques she is familiar with as not every idea is easy to realize in three dimensions. The more versatile a medium is, the longer she tends to stick with it. For that reason, she is constantly trying to determine what other unique things she can do with the materials she uses.

Barbara has taken workshops with some of the best and most well-known polymer clay artists in the community, including Lindly Haunani, Sarah Shriver, Jana Roberts-Benzon, Ann and Karen Mitchell, Marie Segal, and more. She is otherwise self-taught having gleaned a lot of information from the internet when many of the forums offered free tutorials. She is the creator and admin of  "Polymer Art Critiques," a Facebook group for individuals who want honest feedback on their work so they can further grow and learn.