Toni Lefler, our new neighbor in #1764, was a native of Ohio until she was three years old, when she moved to Lake Worth, Florida with her parents and six-month-old brother. The family moved to Florida so that her father, a painter and paperhanger, and her mother, a surgical nurse, could pursue work. Toni attended Catholic schools from kindergarten through high school graduation in Lake Worth and is ncm a student of Metaphysics. She came to our community from Palm Beach Gardens along the east coast about 80 miles north of Miami.
She studied marketing in college, which led her lo a career of marketing and sales. As a person who enjoys meeting people and being out and about, she liked her work.
It was in 1992 that Toni made the jump from working for someone else and turned entrepreneur because she realized that her knack for organizing could become a business. She had been organizing her drawers, closets. and rooms since she was a child, and when she moved into her own apartment her friends kidded her about how nothing was ever out of order. Through her new business she organized for individuals as well as businesses. Before long she added to her skills via a class given by a woman who taught a Visual Coordination course.
With these new skills, when working with her clients, she was able to utilize their existing furnishings and accessories to compliment their architecture and enhance their lifestyle. Additionally, she was able to add clients who needed to stage their homes for sale, those moving into a new home and seniors downsizing or people going through a life change. One of the goals being that no one needed to buy anything new.
In 2000, she heard of the words Feng Shui, the ancient art of placement meaning wind and water. Toni located a teacher in the art in Los Angeles and began to study with her. She extended her studies in Feng Shui and began teaching it herself and working with clients. Through Zoom, she is currently successfully working with both former and new clients offering organizing, room makeovers, home staging and Feng Shui consultations. She is a contributing author for the book, Contemporary Earth Designs: A Feng Shui Anthology. 50 Best Staging Tips to Sell your Home is available as a freeeBook on her website: http://www.ToniDeziqn.oom.
It was also in 2000 that Toni was given an unusual and exciting invitation to travel through Egypt. The leader of a tour asked her to serve as an assistant for the two week trip.
For her, it was an extraordinary opportunity to visit a country filled with ancient history, as the trip included touring the Great Pyramid and traveling up the Nile River.
Sadly during that time, her mother was ill with mul tiple sclerosis. Fortunately, as her health declined, Toni was able to be there for her as her primary health care manager and often as the hands-on care giver.
Toni’s hobbies and interests include: organizing and beautifying her home, reading, really good movies, gardening and walking. EspeciaUy important to her has been time with friends combined with entertaining and the exploring of new foods.
Callie and Sophie are the most recent rescue cats that Toni has adopted. The three of them began their life together Thanksgiving weekend in 2011.
Evidently Callie and Sophie were not in the least bit happy about the long trip to their new home and the move into it. But are now adjusting well to being in Huntington Woods.
We are happy to welcome all in the Lefler house hold to our community.
