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About Nada...
   
 
     
Nada is a people person -- little people and big people. She is also a meticulous maker of dolls, which she treats like and talks to as if they were people. She is our quality control inspector and inspired several of our Phoenix Exclusives designs. Our employees call her our "Good Will Ambassador."
Nada has delighted in showing off her dolls to schoolchildren and various groups.

Nada is a charter member and past president of the Lady Lions of Muncie. She also contributed 15 years of service as a Girl Scout leader.

Nada has been a faithful friend of the handicapped for many years.  She was active with the Delaware County Workers for the Blind for over 50 years. Her husband Joe was a 50-year member of the Muncie Lions Club, which provided volunteer transportation for the Workers for the Blind.  Nada and her late husband Joe took the first person from Delaware County to Michigan to get a leader dog and were among the 'minutemen' who delivered eyes to Indianapolis for transplants. They were married over 60 years before Joe's death in 1999.

Nada has a lengthy work record... former executive director of Delaware County United Cerebral Palsy Agency (UCP); former Delaware County director of the Comprehensive Employment Training Act and Administration (CETA); and former administrator in Delaware and Blackford counties of CETA's predecessor, the Emergency Employment Act (EEA).
...And a long business association with her late husband. She helped him with the heavy equipment moving business founded by his father until an industrial accident left Joe paralyzed for over 32 years.

Nada Stautamoyer, mother of Phoenix Design owner Gail Stautamoyer, displays her collection of Nada’s Dolls and More at Phoenix Design. 

Just a few of Nada's dolls....

Some of Nada's handcrafted quilts...

    "All that I am or hope to be I owe to my Mother."  -- Abraham Lincoln
The Dare to Dream design for daughter Gail took 82 hours.

Nada has made a U.S. map for each of her five grandchildren. The first one took 82 hours; the second and third 78 hours each; and the next two 67 and 64 hours each.

    The Indiana map took 80 hours to complete. 

It took Nada 206 hours to do the appliqué and quilting on the world map.