Kristi Ostrem Lacey has been a rosemaler since she was 12 years old, when she took her first class in Rosemaling from Orv Svien in Door County, Wisconsin. She is 32 now, and is continuing study of the craft she learned to love as a child.

After her first year of college, at Augustana University College in Camrose, Alberta, Canada, Kristi spent a year in a folkhogskule in Telemark district in Norway. That was an interesting and fruitful year for her in her interest in things Norwegian. She began working with wool, spinning, weaving, and knitting in those years of Norway and on her return to the U.S. She continues to do these crafts now in her home.

Upon return from Norway, Kristi completed a BA degree, then enrolled in a Psychiatric Nursing Course in Alberta. She worked as a psychiatric nurse until her marriage nearly five years ago.

Kristi was commissioned to do a poster for Camrose Lutheran College when she was 16, her first commissioned work. Since then she has rosemalled countless plates, boards, furniture and note cards, which she has sold as individual original pieces.

This year four of her designs were printed, and are being sold as single cards with envelopes, and in Giftpacks of four cards and envelopes.

The designs have been named after her grandmothers' and great grandmothers' maiden names: Harstad, Kjos, Skaret, and Lindem, all old Norwegian names.