In quest for creative outlet, financial industry executive turns to wreaths

Penny Parks deals with numbers all day. Searching for a creative hobby, she started making wreaths. She hasn’t looked back.

  • By Grier Ferguson
  • | 6:00 a.m. January 11, 2019
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Mark Wemple. Penny Parks, founder and president of Links Financial, needed a creative outlet, so she turned to making wreaths and small decorative trees in her free time.
Mark Wemple. Penny Parks, founder and president of Links Financial, needed a creative outlet, so she turned to making wreaths and small decorative trees in her free time.
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EXECUTIVE: Penny Parks is the founder and president of Tampa-based Links Financial. In her role at Links, she helps businesses raise capital.

DIVERSION: Parks has been making wreaths and small decorative trees since late 2014. It was a tough year, she says, and she sought a creative outlet. It turned out making wreaths was perfect. So far, she’s made more than 250 wreaths and trees. 

 

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