On a good day, her creations may be found under piles and piles of books and papers. Other pieces travel hundreds of miles, shoved into mail sacks.
People do seem to like it, though.
Crafter of lobster-trap furniture and handmade cards, Linscott has recently turned longtime hobbies into a business Lighthouse Cards and Gifts in Southwest Harbor to pay her way through school. An aspiring counselor of sexual abuse victims, Linscott has created art ranging from furniture to note cards to watercolors for the eight years she has been a part-time student at the University of Maine s outreach center in Ellsworth. My parents and I began putting lobster traps on the front lawn about 25 years ago to let the lobstermen know we were selling them. Linscott learned the trap-making technique from her father, who had learned it from his father, she said. For a while the family did its own lobstering, but then decided to make the traps instead.