Ruth Clawson is a dancer, wife, and loving mother who has made doll clothing and costumes since childhood. Her parents started her collection of antiques, including a love of fine wood! A pack rat, re-purposer, published writer, Ruth studied interior design and the human mind. Ruth always costumed and danced, she met her husband Salomon at a costumed dance where they fell passionately in love and married in August of 2008. Both became enveloped in Steampunk in 2010 and created the HMS Ball to pull friends from different worlds together.