Navy Vet, turned Cable TV expert, turned Customer Service Professional, turned Computer Geek, turned Embroiderer. Not exactly the career path most people would follow, but that’s Corky’s life. After working his way up in a major telecommunications company and then loosing his job of 15 years, he took his retirement fund and used it to start his own embroidery business, called simply, Corliss.

He taught himself embroidery and digitizing and learned to enjoy his job again. He learned what was important in his life, God and his family. Working out of his home gave him time to be with his wife Molly and his 3 boys, Robert, Johnathon, and Benjamin. And, when he started taking his machine to different shows doing mobile embroidery, it turned into mini working vacations with his family.

His wife is a Special Ed Teacher and his oldest just graduated from Navy Boot Camp and is going to be a culinary specialist in the Navy Reserves. The younger two are still in school, 1 in 10th grade and 1 in 5th. Corky and Molly are active in their church and rely on their faith in Jesus to get them through it all.

Corky keeps pretty busy doing custom embroidery locally, digitizing for Designsbysick.com and creating custom designs for embroiderers who are looking for something special, and he still does the mobile embroidery every other weekend or so. You can check out his work at www.corlissemb.com