About Sandra

It's nice to know a little background about the people you work with, especially in such an important endeavor as buying or selling real estate.

(See my blog on Northern New Mexico Villages at www.espanolavalleyrealestate.com.)

For most of my adult life, I was a craft magazine editor. I started out my career as a file clerk for a little magazine called The Craftsman. That magazine was owned by Tandy Corporation, and after a few years working on the staff, I transferred to the Tandy Advertising Department where I learned advertising art production and writing from the ground up. After a number of years of producing art work for catalogs, I landed a job on the Tandy craft magazine, Creative Ideas for Living.

From that background, I then started a magazine called Needlecraft for Today which went to over a million in circulation before I left after five years to start another craft magazine for a publisher in Milwaukee. That magazine was Country Handcrafts and it also did very well in circulation, topping out at about 750,000. After that, still another publisher asked me to start a craft magazine for them and that became Southwest Crafts.

In 1982, when I started Country Handcrafts, I had moved from my hometown of Ft Worth Texas to northern New Mexico to a tiny village on the Rio Grande called Pilar. It's the first village south of Taos and it's the jumping off place for many of the raft tours that ply the river during the late spring and summer. I flew to Milwaukee every other month and stayed two weeks to put the magazine together and direct the photography and did the other parts of making a magazine from my little cabin on the Rio Grande.

Later, I moved to a big old adobe home in Taos and during my time at that house, Southwest Crafts was born.

About 1992 I got the travel bug, left the world of crafts and publishing, bought a 21-foot mini motor home and traveled the country for 2 1/2 years living off the money that I made from radically remodeling and selling the old Taos adobe.

When I decided to rejoin the working world (read when the money ran out), I decided to make a career out of something I had always loved doing and that was buying and selling real estate. So, in 1995, I got my real estate license and it was the best decision I ever made.

I LOVE helping people sell their homes and I LOVE helping people find their next home. Give me a call or email me and let's find out what we can do to make your next real estate transaction smoother and more rewarding for you.

Sandra Page
Phone: 505-690-8373

Email: sandrawrightpage@gmail.com