Nora learned to sew at a cousin's dress shop in Trinidad and Tobago, and then got formal training at New York's Fashion Institute of Technology. These days Nora's textile work is hanging in windows at the Rayburn, Ford, Cannon, and Longworth buildings in Washington, DC. She also got to sew the decorations visible all around the capitol for the inauguration of President Barack Obama. "I love taking a plain piece of fabric and making it into something fabulous," she shares.