Meet Torcelle's Team!
Meet Alana
Alana is the puppet master as well as the oldest daughter of Diana. She grew to love puppets when she participated in a puppet ministry for her church that was led by her pastor’s wife, Claudia. Now, with Torcellee, Alana brings a personality that only she can fill.
Alana is married and she and her husband have a passion for travel. She continues to be an active and kind individual as she is a Speech Pathologist. She is gifted with this job and helps many disadvantaged kids.
Meet Kari
Kari is Torcellee’s sweet voice. Kari started out in a Girl Scout Troop led by Diana and fast became known as a very talented singer, pianist and now ukulele player. Torcellee really comes to life when Kari is involved!
Kari is married with two wonderful boys and her life is filled with taking care of them and promoting her Hawaiian heritage supported by her mom and dad.
Meet Janelle
Janelle is the encourager that helped Diana resurrect Torcellee Twist She is Diana’s youngest daughter and without her nudging, Torcellee would still be sitting on a shelf just waiting for an opportunity to share her love of God.
Janelle is married and has four children with one more on the way. She home schools, homesteads, has a podcast called the Share Dare, along with working in a family business. You might say she is a little on the busy side. You might know her as Della Bright as she is in the process of writing a series of books under that pen name.
Meet Diana
Hello…thank you for checking out my website. This has been quite a long journey and just goes to prove you’re never too old to jump in on a dream.
I have been married to Jeff, one of my biggest supporters, since 1977. We have our “baby angel” son that lives in heaven and two amazing daughters. Both daughters, who are married to smart and talented husbands, help and encourage me in any dream I’m set on pursuing. As a grandmother, I have been blessed with four, soon to be five, grandkids. Two boys…three girls…and immeasurable amounts of fun with all.
After raising my family, I found myself searching for new things to get into. I looked into clogging and absolutey loved this dance style for many years. However, over time my knees and feet didn’t love it as much. Thankfully, circumstances introduced square and round dancing into my life at just the right time and my husband and I have been joyfully dancing our years away.
God, family and friends will always be my top priority Our current time together after church is enjoying “Sundae Sonday on Sunday”! Bet you can figure out what that includes.
I will always be a big dreamer and resurrecting my little friend Torcellee Twist, creating the Fruit Loop Jamboree program and making fun videos fills my life full to overflowing.
History of Torcellee
TORCELLEE TWIST?? WHO THE HECK IS TORCELLEE TWIST?
That was exactly what I thought when I woke one morning with that name on my mind. It was so unique and so vivid that I immediately believed that God gave me that name for a reason.
Then the quest to figure out who she was began. My journey took me from thinking she was a precocious teen to believing she was someone’s pet. I knew pretty quickly she was supposed to be the character of a book but the actual concept took quite a long time to come to me.
So fast forward to years after my first Godly inspiration of Torcellee Twist and I was still pondering who she was. It was not until I was listening to a famous person on TV talking about her “mountaintop” experience that perked my ears up. She claimed she had never felt so close to God in that moment and I thought to myself” I need a mountaintop experience!” But I live in Yuma, Arizona, a desert, where there are not many mountains to be climbed.
Not even sure how much timed passed before I began to be bombarded by references to a pasture during my quiet time. Without giving it much thought in the beginning, my “lightbulb” moment came when I started to recognize that the word pasture was significant. So, in the brisk morning, during my quiet time outside, it hit me. ” I have a pasture and I think God wants me in it”. So right then and there I loaded up my chair, paper, pen and coffee and head out to the middle of my pasture. To say I had an inspirational moment would be an understatement. I sat out there, with horses sniffing my hair, writing what I love most…. poems…silly “what if” poems that my little character Torcellee Twist was daydreaming about.
And that is where the concept of my book, The What If World of Torcellee Twist began!
Diana
Original Torcellee Home Videos
See where Torcellee started! Enjoy this blast from the past as we time travel back to where Torcellee's journey began, with a video tape recorder, a dream, and a whole lot of love:
