As a self-employed artist for the past 30 years, Rhode Island-based artist Rachel Badeau has etched and engraved in a variety of mediums. For almost twenty years she was a professional printmaker and her etchings were sold in galleries across the United States and Europe.

About 17 years ago, in need of a change, she developed a way to use her former scrimshaw experience to carve and engrave on a man-made material. Using techniques of sculpting, engraving, casting and hand coloring she created a line of jewelry, clocks, wall pieces and ornaments under the name Moosup Valley Designs.