Ley began fabric sculpting last year after seeing the medium at Dharma, where she purchases dyes for tie-dyeing.  Fabric sculpture allows for a creative outlet and, hopefully, an extra source of income so she can stay at home to work with her disabled daughter, Mikaylah.  Unfortunately, Mikaylah was born (along with her twin sister Charlotte) 13 weeks early and has been diagnosed with PVL, cerebral palsy, and CVI, and requires intensive therapy.

Ley works out of space in her garage where she also does her tie-dyeing for Ley's Tees.   She is inspired by stories, pictures, rocks, and to do certain sculptures for places and people. 

The name "Medusa's Garden" was suggested by her husband, Scott, after much discussion about the nature of the sculptures, as Ley was inspired to do mythological creatures such as fairies and mermaids.  Early legends have Medusa as a goddess of female wisdom, natural forces, powers of creativity, destruction and regeneration.   She was changed by a jealous Athena into a monster whose look can either freeze or turn others into stone.  The legends hold that surrounding her home, or cavern, sat statues of those she turned.   Ley envisioned a garden of fairies that had been changed by Medusa's gaze and thus the name, "Medusa's Garden."

Ley's first showing in this medium will occur at the Tapestry Arts Festival, downtown San Jose, over Labor Day Weekend, 2008.