My name's Nina, I'm 15. I live in Pennsylvania, I'm a freshman in high school.

I have been doing taxidermy for two years now and started because I wanted to have my buck mounted and my dad told me we already had paid too many taxidermy fees, so I decided I would learn it myself and I'm glad I did. Now every cape is saved and I'm getting better each time with every mountI do. I went to my first competition/convention in March (The PA taxidermists convention) and placed a third with my deer in the junior amateur division, I also took a clay sculpture of a miniature deer I made and placed first with it, For that I got Best of category and it won me the 2006 Rising Star Award.

I hope to somewhere make a career out of taxidermy, or even just a side job. I know it isn't any way to become rich but it is a source of extra spending money and I enjoy it